hey, everybody, i 'm planning to enroll to nottingham uni. is it a good place to study? is it a good place to live and jobs while i 'm studying? some people said on the comments that the place is bad but some said good to be. what is right and what is wrong? what are good things and bad things ?can you write down?how is the teaching method for civil engineering? and is it hard to enroll this uni?

thet naing tun, Yangon, Myanmar

As an International student who studied in Nottingham, i keep feeling like telling anyone i meet overseas who desires to study in the UK to give University of Nottingham a trial. The main campus itself, has to be one of the most beautiful places to be - especially in Spring! The lecturers are enthusiastic about what they do and how they carry students along. In terms of administration and organization, Nottingham Uni has to be one of the finest places to be. All the staff do go an extra mile. It easy to come to this conclusion because friends from other Universities do not have the same positve tale i have to tell. Importantly, i think being a Nottingham graduates gives more opportunities than this rating suggests.

Funke Ibiwoye, Johannesburg,

I loved my time at Nottingham.

Top 5 things:

i) Progressive & top notch music scene
ii) Lecturers are incredibly enthusiastic
iii) Chilled out lifestyle suited to introverts & extroverts alike
iv) Lenton, the student village
v) The other students

Mark, Woking, UK

ive lived in nottingham all my life and off to uni next year. Nottingham deserved its reputation about 5 years ago for violence and gun crime but recently police arrested the ring leader of the most prevelant drugs gang in nottingham and the threat of violence is much decreased. of course every city has its violence problems but as long as you are vigilant and sensible about where you go it will be a safe and great place to live.

chris boucher, nottingham,

hi im planning to take the account, finance and management programme next year can anyone tell me if its hard to make friends cause thats what im dredding going there and not making friends.. my strategy atm is just to make friends with those in the same flat with me but can anyone give any advice?

james, shepton mallet, somerset

I'm thinking of applying to Nottingham even after some of the not so nice comments about it! does anybody out there have any info on what the french degree course is like at this university?

Ruthie, Irvinestown, Northern Ireland

Nottingham is amazing except for the people who mug you in the city and rape you. but you get used to it after a while :)

Greg, Nottingham, England

I've been at Nottingham this year doing a masters and it's really not been great. The Hallward never has any books, not because the other students on my course have them, but because they're not there in the first place! I've had to get a membership at my first uni in London to get the books I need. My accommodation was mucked up by the accommodation office and much of the postgrad rooms are right next to Freshers halls so you never get any sleep/peace.
Luckily my dept has been good, and the course interesting, but I wouldn't recommend it to another postgrad.

Karin, Nottingham,

Avoid Nottingham if you can go anywhere else. I did theology there and the library is terrible. I had so many books requested through inter-library loan (because they weren't available in the library) that the librarians imposed a quota on my book needs. Eh? How am I supposed to write a dissertation without books? Shoddy research facilities, at least in humanities.

Richard, London,

I lived in Nottingham for a the year last year whilst doing a postgrad. It was such an anticlimax coming from Durham University and the place was soul-less and dead in comparison. My advice - don't go there.

Adam, London, England

re: Ed, London
ive been living in nottingham for 21 years, what are you talking about...' i would never let my children near nottingham' seriously get a life, you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

lucy, nottingham,

Nottingham has one of the worst crime rates in the country FACT.
Yes there is much more crime in London, but that is because, for those who have not been to London, it is a little bigger and has a few more people.
As for the comment about The Olympics, yet ANOTHER example of ignorance and the banding around of unfounded and INCORRECT facts....funding is to be provided from increases in council tax on LONDON CONSTITUENCIES. Nottingham will contribute nothing on top of their current tax levels, just like the rest of the country...
Nottingham is a classic example of a poorly planned city. It is striving for superficial national recognition by pumping money into certain concentrated areas in order to gain plaudits and appease the affluent and the students at the expense of the areas that contain actual residents and that need the funding the most.
No wonder there is burglary and crime....if i was a local and saw all local funding going on the students i would be bitter too.

Ed , London,

London Olympics are being funded by increased council tax in London constituencies....please get your facts straight.
Nottingham is one of the crime capitals of the country FACT based on whichever indicators you use...the only people disputing this are Nottingham City Council...funny that.
I would NEVER let my children near Nottingham, and i would suggest more money gets fairly distributed within the council rather than all of it bneing poured into certain areas to appease the affluent.
Nottinghams infrastructure has a LONG way to go...a trip to any other large University town will tell you that.

Ed , London,

As a former Nottingham University student who's now returned to work in the city as a journalist after a year in London, I can assure Nick he'd be pleasantly surprised if he were to give Nottingham a second chance. Yes, there's a problem with burglaries in the student parts of the city - mainly thanks to poor investment in security on the part of the landlords, and burglars knowing they're likely to net seven laptops, seven music systems and seven Ipods from breaking into one student home. 17 teenagers have been murdered in London so far this year - we've had one gun death in 2 and a half years.
I don't know either why he imagines the Southern tax payer having to subsidise Nottingham (the fastest growing city in England, and second fastest growing in the UK after Glasgow)...I would imagine a lot of Nottingham's council tax is going in the other direction to pay for the 2012 Games at the moment!

Charlie, Nottingham, Notts

"Without it seeming too much like booze City".... so Nottingham actually has more bars per square foot than any other city in the country...

In essence it is a nasty city minus the parts which have been "refurbished" thanks presumably to the southern tax payer. I studied there for four years where I lived on the most burgled street in the UK, was broken into twice and had my car torched. One begs the question has the columnist been to Nottingham?

Nick, London, UK

The part about the Students’ Union is a misleading. In one paragraph it is described as political, administrative and “not about the social life”. The next paragraph is a glowing write up of the societies, freshers’ fayre and sports. It is worth noting that the Union runs the societies, freshers’ fayre and the Athletic Union (which runs the sports clubs and administers Nottingham competition nationally in BUSA). It’s through the work of the Union that the University of Nottingham has so many societies and sporting achievements to its name.

Alex Former Finance Officer, University of Nottingham Students’ Union, Cambridge,

@Alex Yarbroff

The above picture is taken in the square of the Law Department....at Edinburgh!

Adam Smith, London,

I'm at nottingham right now studying Psychology and Neuroscience. Brilliant place to be and I'm so glad I chose it over my other offers (Durham, Exeter). The comments made about the books seem to be limited to specific departments, mainly the humanities, I've always found multiple copies of the science books I've wanted and only had problems when I needed one from the philosophy section.

Tim, Nottingham,

The author of this piece has presented a rather biased view of Pollock Halls. I spent my first year at Edinburgh University there and loved being near most of my friends. The free inter-hall telephones were great and and the standard of accomadation was generally very high - much better than many Halls of Residence that I have visited in other Universities! Liewise the food served in the dining hall, although slightly dodgy on occasion, was also usually of a much higher quality than in many other Universities.
There are a lot of Private-Schooled people living there, but a lot from bog-standard schools as well.
He has also neglected to mention the best aspect of living in Pollock - the view! Situated right at the bottom of Arthur's Seat, I have not heard of any other British university halls, although I may be wrong, that are situated in such a beautiful location.
It really is not as bad as the author has made it out to be!

Sarah, Edinburgh,

do the authors realise that the above picture is not actually edinburgh at all, but rather the united college quad at St Andrews????

Alex Yabroff, Washington, DC

plenty of young people who live in nottingham avoid the city centre on a saturday night too for the same reason! or at least, are selective about which areas/bars they drink in. it would be wrong to assume that all nottingham locals stumble drunkenly around, apparently having lost the majority of their clothes, dribbling, swearing and looking for someone to bash with the beer bottle they are swigging from...

sarah, nottingham,

I left Nottingham in 1977, interesting the account given could have been mine at the time, nothing much changes in thirty years! I did however live in the Meadows and although it had a bad reputation even then, I never had a problem despite walking home often in the early hours. The Arts were always well represented and the theatres and concert halls very good.

Tim Benson, LONDON,

I left Nottingham in 2000, and enjoyed every single minute of it - a fantastic place to go to university.

Agree with comments on the Hallward, a definite lack of books at busy times. An overly officious librarian confiscated my library card a week before my final 3rd year exams, due to my photo being marked. It's suddenly annoyed me 7 years later!

Enough of that - Nottingham is bl**dy wonderful.

Helen, London,

Seriously avoid the Meadows. You'll get jacked up by a bunch of inebriated Neds clutching broken WKD bottled. Beware.

Franky, Edinburgh,

I have just finished my third year at Nottingham doing Classical Civilisation. I would strongly recommend the course and the university to anyone considering it. Nottingham is a wonderful town and the university is a joy to attend. I am so sad to be leaving it!

Claudette, Nottingham,

The photograph used in this article is of St Andrews University's beautiful St Salvator's Quadrangle

Arthur, St Andrews,

Lenton was a great place to live; nicely placed between the city and campus and loads of fun. Shame about all the robbers, and the syringes outside jacksons.

Matt, London,

Yeah the uni library really should be restocked. Its not unusual to wait weeks for a book that ten people on the same course need

Andy, Edinburgh,

hey im thinking of doin clas civ too at N, good?

Fran, London,