Original post by john2054Okay so you've visited some universities which weren't very good. Whoopie do. Derby is a good university, which you haven't visited. And if you did visit it, you may well change your mind about us. I'm not saying that everyone at here is Albert Einstein, and no they're not paying me for saying this.
There are generally at least a handful of mature students, certainly in my classes there were, and these are people who have been around the block, and so don't put education as the sole be all and end all purpose in life, like some of these nineteen/twenty year olds may. But with age comes experience, and the whole reason i have been explaining that for my degree i tried to read, slow read, a book a week. Isn't so i could get to the top of the class. I've never been bothered about getting a first. Just to get my 2.1 was good enough for me.
I was actually nearly put back in psychiatric detention on more than one point on this journey.
Derby has a nice group of educated at dynamic students, a generally smart and motivated academic staff, has an excellent reputation for nursing, and some of the best lecturers in the country. Plus we have a nice city and some top coffee shops. Basically it ticks all of the boxes.
I went to another open day for the masters, not naming any names, and it was like i was going back to school again. With a class full of, doubtlessly better qualified students then me, but when the lecturers asked at the end of the presentation, if there were any questions, i was the only one to put my hand up. And i got some dirty looks for doing so.
If you are going to university to learn, and are prepared to self motivate, and put the hours in, with some support if you get stuck, Derby is a good choice.
If you want to go to a university which is higher up the league table, and the students all bow down to the lecturers, then maybe choose somewhere else.
Come back to me in three years, when you have got your degree, and see how you feel about it then, okay?