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Can’t find any PICs of the Business School…. Why?

I was offered an unconditional for the Business and Management with Innovation. I have been to Bristol before (international student from the US) but not to tour the Uni. I am planning on visiting in the next 2 months, but I was wondering why I am unable to find any pictures, video tours, or any images at all of the Business School facilities?

Is it that terrible of a building that the uni is embarrass to showcase or publish pictures of it?

I understand the Business school will likely move to Temple Quarter once that project is done and that it really only officially started as a business school in 2022, but in the meantime, where are the classes being held? Is it Howard House (b school address)? If so, how do I find images of the space? Meeting rooms, classrooms, etc? Impossible to find anything…..I can find almost every other school tour on YouTube, but Bristol’s b-school.

The program looks amazing on paper. I understand the Innovation classes are held at the Richmond building for now, but the lack of information as to where business classes are held is a little concerning.

If anyone here can help it would be great.

Reply 1

It might just be that the building is a bit out of the way/forgettable (not in a bad way) compared to the rest. It's happened with my college: there's 10 buildings but only 2 ever get photographed 😆 Check their website and see if they have an official photo gallery, or maybe just e-mail them directly and ask for photos, I'm sure they'll be happy to provide.

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Original post by Anonymous
I was offered an unconditional for the Business and Management with Innovation. I have been to Bristol before (international student from the US) but not to tour the Uni. I am planning on visiting in the next 2 months, but I was wondering why I am unable to find any pictures, video tours, or any images at all of the Business School facilities?
Is it that terrible of a building that the uni is embarrass to showcase or publish pictures of it?
I understand the Business school will likely move to Temple Quarter once that project is done and that it really only officially started as a business school in 2022, but in the meantime, where are the classes being held? Is it Howard House (b school address)? If so, how do I find images of the space? Meeting rooms, classrooms, etc? Impossible to find anything…..I can find almost every other school tour on YouTube, but Bristol’s b-school.
The program looks amazing on paper. I understand the Innovation classes are held at the Richmond building for now, but the lack of information as to where business classes are held is a little concerning.
If anyone here can help it would be great.

It sounds like you're more interested in what things look like rather than, for example, the quality of the teaching.

My experience of university (and while I didn't go to Bristol, I suspect most universities are similar) is that most teaching spaces are rather uninspiring. Universities tend to have a range of buildings of different ages. Some are rather more frayed around the edges than others.

The reality is that teaching rooms generally don't need much more than chairs and desks to sit at; a whiteboard/markers/eraser and/or blackboard/chalk/eraser, and computer/data projector/screen to project on to.

You might find that your lectures/seminars/tutorials etc take place in a department's nominal home building. On the other hand you might find that that nominal home building houses the offices of academic staff and administrators but that teaching takes place elsewhere. (In my case, I can think of at six different buildings that I had lectures in.)

For some modules with large intakes of students (and I imagine that, given your programme, you'll be taking some of those modules) your lectures are likely to be held in large lecture theatres with capacities in the hundreds. A university isn't going to have many 200+ seat lecture theatres, so your lectures will be held in buildings with such large teaching spaces, irrespective of where your department is nominally based.

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Original post by Anonymous
It sounds like you're more interested in what things look like rather than, for example, the quality of the teaching.
My experience of university (and while I didn't go to Bristol, I suspect most universities are similar) is that most teaching spaces are rather uninspiring. Universities tend to have a range of buildings of different ages. Some are rather more frayed around the edges than others.
The reality is that teaching rooms generally don't need much more than chairs and desks to sit at; a whiteboard/markers/eraser and/or blackboard/chalk/eraser, and computer/data projector/screen to project on to.
You might find that your lectures/seminars/tutorials etc take place in a department's nominal home building. On the other hand you might find that that nominal home building houses the offices of academic staff and administrators but that teaching takes place elsewhere. (In my case, I can think of at six different buildings that I had lectures in.)
For some modules with large intakes of students (and I imagine that, given your programme, you'll be taking some of those modules) your lectures are likely to be held in large lecture theatres with capacities in the hundreds. A university isn't going to have many 200+ seat lecture theatres, so your lectures will be held in buildings with such large teaching spaces, irrespective of where your department is nominally based.

I dont think the previous poster question was an unreasonable one. I also attended Bristol for engineering and then Imperial for my MSc. Then after working a few years I got my MBA at Cornell. For management/business schools, most UK schools’s facilities are subpar. I just didn’t know any better until I went to the US. Any little uni in the US has business school facilities that are on average 100x nicer than anything we have in the UK. But the serious business schools in the UK are doing a better job improving their facilities. Quite frankly I dont know where the business schools is, but I know they will be moving to Temple Quarter. And there is a reason for that. If you want to attract the best talent, you need nice facilities. We have been brainwashed here to accept mediocrity from our unis. The reality is that most unis in the UK have terrible facilities. Over the last 15 years, a lot of unis started to invest in their business school facilities to compete. Unis like Bristol, St Andrews and others merged their depts to create a business school. And with that new facilities. It is the reality if they want to continue to compete to the best talent.

We should not accept mediocrity just because it might seem like we are more interested in what things look like”. Sorry to break it to you, but unless these facilities receive the appropriate investment, unis in the UK will continue to fall behind the rest of the world….

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