Swansea or Cardiff Met

I had this choice to make and I made the wrong one by choosing Cardiff Met. I did 3 years there and every single person hated it. Please, for your sake, choose Swansea. Do not waste your money at Cardiff Met.

I’m looking at applying for Cardiff Met. Is there anything in particular that made it so bad???

You know it's bad when they make you come into uni to do the review thing they make you do at the end of your degree. We could have done it at home. Anyway, we had to do this review thing and they made us all come in and there were 4 tutors standing there watching us fill it out. They threatened us by saying "don't forget, you'll be asking us for references" "these will get sent to every job you apply for so don't say anything bad". It was so uncomfortable.

Tbh, can't really state what it is in particular. There's nothing particularly good about it at all! It's kind of seen as a joke (by the people who go there and those who don't). Wait, the guy who helps you if you have enrolment problems-nicest person there!

No guidance- they won't put up marking criteria and will tell you to just "do the work" when you ask for help.
Favouritism and unfair marking- put it this way, because we complained about a tutor marking us down and letting another group get away with the same thing (we got given a 50 whereas they got a 70 because she loved them) they made her film every presentation from that point. The next year, we got 68 (same groups). There's blatant issues with the marking tbh, it was not just the once.
They don't really know anything and will tell you to include things in your assessment and then mark you down for including them. "I didn't tell you to put that in" - I have them on voice record saying it. It got to the point where we'd arrange, as a group (17 of us on the course), for 1-2 of us to record the seminars because they constantly lied. It really messes with your mental health.
Zero support after graduation.
I don't know a single person who likes it. I lived off campus for first year and each of us did different courses. And the general gist of it was that Cardiff Met is ****. And they were drama and English, psychology and education, and sports.
I just... please do not go there. Because I haven't met a single person who hasn't regretted it.

If it was just my personal experience that was bad-I wouldn't have replied. But literally nobody likes it. It will be a complete waste of your money, time and mental health.

I had this choice to make and I made the wrong one by choosing Cardiff Met. I did 3 years there and every single person hated it. Please, for your sake, choose Swansea. Do not waste your money at Cardiff Met.