Calling all Biomed Students...

Hello ^^ |'m looking around at unis at the moment, and I intend to apply for biomed. Just wondering if any current students could give their honest opinions about the university you go to.

Just general comments on the teaching, workload, course etc. and what it's like being a student there would be super helpful.

Particularly curious about Newcastle, Dundee and Sussex but all advice would be great.

Thanks ^^

Hello, I've just finished my degree in biomed at Lincoln. I really enjoyed my course and it opened up lots of opportunities that perhaps weren't even biomed related. Teaching wise, we had about 8 hours per week, plus about 3/4 hours of lab time on top, however some weeks it was more and others it was less.

Workload, we had essays/lab reports every 2 weeks, so it was a fairly steady feed of practical then related assignment for submission the fortnight after.

Practical wise, they were always really useful, in the first year, its all about getting your skills up to the same level, they understand that people will have completely different levels of practical experience. So the main aim is to get everyone to a similar place. After that it becomes more specialist and really giving you the skills to become a independent scientist. The things that I learnt in the first two years really helped me with my third year project.

One of the really good things about lincoln was that the third year project opened up the whole school of life sciences. So as a biomed student, if you had an interest in say animal behaviour, there would be an option to do your project on that. This also really opens up options further down the line, especially if you go onto to do postgrad!

As a student, Lincoln was/is a really good place, i'm staying on to do postgrad! Although it's a small uni, its growing really quick and there really investing in science. Everything is based on one campus which is really good and saves a fortune on buses, even the accomodation is all really close, being about 10/15 max from the campus. There's a really good night life, with pretty much something every night. There's also tonnes of sports and societies. Although I did biomed i joined the law society and know people that have done things equally completely different to their course!

If you have any more questions, send me a message and i'll do my best to help

Wow, thank you very much that's really helpful. I wasn't even considering Lincoln but I might actually check out their course ^^ (I will definitely be bugging you with messages if that's alright )


It sounds really good good luck at postgrad, thanks again

Nearly all unis have biomed in clearing, is it not popular?