Southampton Solent University

Southampton solent university is really really rubbish.Most of lecturers if not all are not qualified and their teaching standard is not good at all.If you walking by to university and you would meet people asking you whether you going to real University (Southampton university) or to fake university(Southampton solent university) it is hard to reply and it is true Southampton Solent university should be called Training camp not university.It is known to be fake and no employer would be excited to employ a student from this little family run business so called University. I wold recommand any one not to go to this university is such ......I do not know.

Southampton solent university is really really rubbish.Most of lecturers if not all are not qualified and their teaching standard is not good at all.If you walking by to university and you would meet people asking you whether you going to real University (Southampton university) or to fake university(Southampton solent university) it is hard to reply and it is true Southampton Solent university should be called Training camp not university.It is known to be fake and no employer would be excited to employ a student from this little family run business so called University. I wold recommand any one not to go to this university is such ......I do not know.

Ahhh shut up. Leave people alone. If they want to go Solent, let them. Not everyone has the academic background to get into Southampton University. Some just might not WANT to go? I want to go to Solent. The only thing putting me off is elitist prats from Southampton Uni giving me a hard time. It's just really childish.

I think it depends. They have a rep for letting anyone in and if you're paying £3000 a\ year you want a good education (even more if the fees go up!!). Obviously some people will love it and it will be a good uni for them but for everyone in southampton it is a bit of a joke university tbh. I personally know someone who used to work there and said the organisation/teaching etc was actually quite shocking.

If it's something you want to do and you get a degree and the relevant experience, there is nothing wrong with it. In the eyes of most of TSR, if you don't go to any of the top 20 uni's, you may as well give up. SIGH.

I completely agree with you, for some people it's the best opportunity and everyone can make the best out of the worst if they try. (I'm at a uni which most would consider a bad uni but for my course it's good and its where I'm happy )

I think it depends. They have a rep for letting anyone in and if you're paying £3000 a\ year you want a good education (even more if the fees go up!!). Obviously some people will love it and it will be a good uni for them but for everyone in southampton it is a bit of a joke university tbh. I personally know someone who used to work there and said the organisation/teaching etc was actually quite shocking.

Oooh where do you go?
See that's my point. I'd be unhappy at one of those top uni's.

I think you're all very bias and have a view on something that you actually know nothing about. I go to Solent, I have never met a rude member of staff and I know that it is certainly not a dump. Yes it is smaller, but I have friends who go to Southampton uni, and I can tell you that they're not exactly having the time of they're lives. And to say that they "look miserable" ha! That's just ridiculous. I love it here. I also love how people are saying you were lucky to get rejected... it's not exactly hard to get in.

I have no problem with Solent, but don't make things up. I've been to SOTON twice now and the students there are all really happy, very friendly people. Some people are going to like Solent/SOTON, some are not, but don't generalise.

I don't like students mocking the 'lower' universities. The idea makes me feel sick, put yourself in their place. It would make me feel really low and worth nothing. I know a friend who goes to a poly university who was offered a place at Oxford.

EDIT: Just realised this is an old thread!

First of all, I would like to say that I did hear negative feedback about the uni before I applied but I decided to give the uni a chance. So I apply and they ask me for an interview. Me and my dad travel 3 hours to the uni only to find out that they had our interview date wrong and they even put me down for the wrong course! So we ask if we can see anyone now since we had travelled a long way and they say no. They then finally say that there is another fashion photography portfolio viewing at 2 that day (it was 10am at the time). So we waited hours for this interview, sitting around doing nothing, we weren't allowed to go anywhere and it pouring with rain outside. People were rude, I even had this man tellling me how awful the university was and how the people were arrogant and that I shouldn't go here. Anyway, the time finally comes, and guess what? We don't get a one on one interview. They don't even see you. We were asked to leave our portfolios on the tables, leave the room and come back an hour and a half later. We wait around for ages again, come back very annoyed since I was expecting a personal interview. But we were positive, maybe they might give feedback when we return. They were 25 minutes late, we all had to wait outside for this long until they finally tell us to come in. We sit down all comfortable, and they tell us to go!! That's it. The whole interview. They took one hour and a half to go through 18 portfolios when it wouldn't have been much longer to go through them individually. There were enough of them there to do this!! We were so annoyed!!! And guess what.. I didn't even get accepted, they bloody declined me.

I think this really shows how utterly rubbish this really university is.

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