University of East London Architecture

I see. So do you know anything about East London architecture's course?

Hey, I see that this thread was years ago. I have now got 2 offers from UEL and Greenwich and I honestly do not know which to firm and which to insurance. UEL has a worse reputation is not regarded as a good uni, however their architecture course is MUCH better than Greenwich, I feel more convinced about it and I feel like I will benefit more at UEL. from your experience there what could you tell me and what could you advice me?

Don't know about Kraftwerk you may want to quote his post to help get a response, would be interesting to see how he got on.

Would avoid Greenwich went there a few years back the same year Spiller from the UCL (Bartlett) became dean of the Architecture department there. He still routinely fails a lot of students each year, about say 50 percent. Some are able to squeeze pass on a resubmit but many don't and last I heard many of them are being told they can't even repeat the year. So a lot of unfairness at Greenwich, its not just the students that didn't bother that fail seems to be whether your style of work fits in with the school's (i.e Spiller's) style or sometimes even rather random failing of students it appears. If you finish a year, particularly second or third year with a bad mark (i.e a third) in the design module it can potentially ruin your chances of getting a job in Architecture.

The UEL is a much safer bet, far less likely to fail students en-mass and at a whim, would guess that the failure rate is nearer the 10 percent region that most normal schools of Architecture have, i.e the ones that mess around and don't bother. Yeah its reputation, some think its poor some think its decent enough. Looked at their work it seems reasonable enough for undergrad and fairly decent for their postgrad. Could always go there put hard work in the first year get good grades and move elsewhere for second and third if you don't feel the school would do you any favours when it came to jobs, changing school after second year would probably look odd to employers and may raise a red flag for them though.

hmmm.

well maybe I can do the year then try to transfer to somewhere better like Westminster or London Met? Is it easy to transfer in the UK?

Westminster was just horrible correspondance, the didn't return any emails I sent them or anything.


I too have heard that London Met architecture is really good but only after I finished the UCAS, so too late there, but I didn't apply there because I read that the school itself was regarded as a scam, I should have researched the architecture course instead of just dismissing the school because comments I read on this site.

Alas! Im sure I can learn things from the course.