An honest, holistic review regarding UCL Mech. Eng. Department

I study Maths. What are your predicted grades and attained grades? Apart from UCL they are quite low universities considering you seem to be a high achiever. Imperial also has many links to the industry (Rolls-Royce, McLaren etc) which will undoubtably help for your employment.

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My predicted grades are A* A A - will i be able to do chemical/mechanical engineering at top uni like wawrick, imperial, kings, ucl - with my subjects:

Maths
Chemistry
Business
I am worried as business is a soft subject, will i be disadvantaged so will i get rejected regardless of my grade? is it best for me to do a subject like psychyology in a year and do business as, if not i can still do psychology for AS

Any updates, has UCL improved at all since this thread was made?
Got into mech eng through UCAS extra which generally isn't a good sign
Still wondering whether to accept the offer or apply to Imperial after a gap year.

Yes. Improved majorly from what the students on the course have said.

Thanks , glad to hear some good news about the department for once.

Where are all these engineers tho 😂can't seem to find them at all on here, I'd love to be able to talk more in depth about the course if u happen to know someone. Are you studying at UCL now btw, or is this just what you've heard from friends?

Engineers from UCL go on to a wide array of jobs simply because a UCL degree i world renown. Army officers, plant processing, food industry are a few potential careers to name just a few.

Not a student, have an offer for ChemEng, been 3 or 4 times and have a good insight into the department. Im just reciprocating what the current students tell me. Maybe they're chatting **** idk

I just find it weird that nobody's made a post about it since 2014, guess I haven't heard anything bad since then either so that's could be a good sign.

I wouldn't read too much from that tbh, there's not that many active users on TSR let alone the engineering forum or university students in particular that you could expect a student from a given university to be active in making posts over a several year period.

No it's true. The course has vastly improved in the last 3 years. Current 3rd years are the first to do the new course, and it's A LOT better

Says who though?

Additionally I've seen a few situations in the past where universities sorta brainwash their students into the idea that their course is amazing when in fact it's nowhere near that level, e.g. Soton advertises a lot of their facilities/teaching for aero as being high level and their students generally believe that when in fact they're pretty bog standard. So I'm going to remain fairly skeptical about UCL until I've heard a detailed description from a 3rd year.

I've had a detailed history and description from a 3rd year, giving me a breakdown of why the course used to suck and what they've done, and how it was messy in the first year.
I've just finished my 1st year, and I personally enjoyed it. Could be better, but I feel like there is no such thing as a perfect course. There are a lot of people who don't like it because they actually have to put effort in, and start complaining.

I've had a detailed history and description from a 3rd year, giving me a breakdown of why the course used to suck and what they've done, and how it was messy in the first year.
I've just finished my 1st year, and I personally enjoyed it. Could be better, but I feel like there is no such thing as a perfect course. There are a lot of people who don't like it because they actually have to put effort in, and start complaining.

My predicted grades are A* A A - will i be able to do chemical/mechanical engineering at top uni like wawrick, imperial, kings, ucl - with my subjects:

Maths
Chemistry
Business
I am worried as business is a soft subject, will i be disadvantaged so will i get rejected regardless of my grade? is it best for me to do a subject like psychyology in a year and do business as, if not i can still do psychology for AS

Hi im going to study at UCL soon to do Mech Eng and I would like to know how the course is for first year and have there been improvement fixing the problem people seem to have ?