Derby uni..whats it like?

I'm going to be applying to university of Derby for sept 2008....whats it REALLY like?

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Full of people who were too nervous to leave home but weren't clever enough to get into Nottingham. I have lots of good friends there (for these reasons) and most of them seem happy enough, but they are capable of doing better. It's not even an ex-poly, it was a college of Higher Education and it shows in the teaching.
Facilities are OK, lots of new building being done and plenty of money being thrown at it. There is no campus as such, it is spread out on various sites in the city which are linked by buses. Accommodation is mostly new and OK, but not spectacular. Student housing is plentiful, cheap and grotty.
Derby is supposedly on the up as a city. But Derby Uni is still down at the bottom of the tables for most subjects. It depends on your grades. If you are expecting to do better than, say, Cs and Ds, then I would aim a bit higher.

Half of what you say is complete rubbish. I study Marketing & it is mid to high table in most league tables. It DOES depend on the subject, you are right. You can't judge everyone that goes to Derby Uni as being 'thick' or 'too scared to go elsewhere'. There are plenty of people there who are intelligent & wanted to go there because the course had good prospects. As for student housing, its the same as any other city. Student accommodation is standard & houses are the same. It might not be a red brick university but you can't brand a university rubbish because its not to your liking.

Where did I use the words "thick" or "rubbish"? I said that I know lots of people who were not clever enough for Nottingham and went to Derby instead. By which I mean at least 10 who were in 6th form with me. They are by no means "thick", they have Bs and Cs at A level and they could have got into mid-tier universities if they had been willing to move away from home.
Obviously a subject like marketing is going to be higher up the tables because it is not taught in the top-tier traditional red bricks. I seem to recall the OP is hoping to study History, for which Derby is well down the tables. (88/91 in the Times.)
And I said the accommodation was OK but nothing spectacular. I don't dislike Derby Uni or the city. I have lived there all my life. Have you?

"Not clever enough to get into Nottingham." They require AAB for History, so the vast majority are not clever enough.
However, let's not turn this into a personal argument. The OP wanted opinions, and I gave mine, you have given yours, let's see what other people think, shall we?