Is your uni workload too high? Or not high enough?

Now this is an entirely serious question- what sort of things are there to do in a music degree other than listen to and analyse music, and constantly gain understanding about reading music, time signatures, Italian words etc. ?

Too true!

I had 28 contact hours per week, and probably at least the same in private study including 4 tutorials with work to be done for each of them.

When I compared with friends doing similar courses at other universities, it was 2 to 3 times as much. And then there were the history students who had 1 or 2 lectures a week, and often didn't go!

What subject did you do

Interesting that people seem to associate universities swamping their students with a lot of work as somewhat noble, and conversely, regarding less exigent universities as not offering value for money, as if that has anything to do with the workload required by each student at each universities.

Disregarding economic factors which may explain why workload may be different (e.g. university A wants to save money by having the same pool of professors that teach and design 1st years courses teaching and designing 2nd and 3rd year courses),
Oxbridge literally competes by requiring their students to do a lot of work.

That's how they maintain prestige. This would apply to a few top ranked universities as well.

Other universities may just want their students to achieve "high" degree classifications (e.g. first), so may require less work for such a classification to be achieved, to make it more attainable. The students then leave with a qualification which provides an indication of their education.

Natural sciences (biological).

Loads of music history and historiography. In Oxbridge music degrees there's relatively little of what you described



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Ahh okay

But I don't believe it isn't a real subject by any means; what can I say? I do Dance!

@jneill I think your popcorn is pretty pointless.

A minor point, but please remember that Oxford and Cambridge have 10 week terms. This means they have to cram work into those 10 weeks that other Unis can do over 12 etc weeks.

Also, its 'horses for courses' - there are some students who thrive in that sort of intensity/pressure and others who don't. It has nothing to do with intelligence, its all about learning styles.

A minor point, but please remember that Oxford and Cambridge have 10 week terms. This means they have to cram work into those 10 weeks that other Unis can do over 12 etc weeks.

Also, its 'horses for courses' - there are some students who thrive in that sort of intensity/pressure and others who don't. It has nothing to do with intelligence, its all about learning styles.

Did anyone manage to enlarge the image from the following page?
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student-workloads-compared-and-contrasted/2006151.article

I left Warwick after second year and am now at UCL studying Economics, just finished first year. Warwick wasn't the right environment for me and I couldn't get a good work ethic there so I wasn't doing that well.

Differential equations always had very hard exams, yeah! I averaged in the 90s in assignments then got like 36 or so in the exam and I think 44 overall for the module or something, can't remember specifically but something like that. That said instead of revising in first year when it came to exams I just played online poker and runescape so idk if it's normally that dramatic of a drop haha. My experience with uni exams is you normally do about as well as expected but a tiny bit worse. They give you way more marks for understanding than for getting it right, so I'm sure you'll be fine

Hi I'm an offer holder for Econ at UCL. I was wondering how much the workload is and how difficult first year is? How many hours per day are you working, how many assignments do you get etc? How difficult is the maths - is it a big step up from A Level maths and further maths? Thanks