De Montfort University Reviews Summary

Financial Support

Pros:

• "You do get a university bursary, one hundred and fifty for the first year, three hundred for the second year and five hundred for the final year."

Cons:

• "Less than two months after enrolment, I get a letter saying if I do not pay the second half of my tuition fees within 7 days I will be kicked out of the university."
• "Hey this is a money eating university. They are asking fee despite considering current pandemic situation."
• "Students directly get excluded for late payment they lose their classes as well they won't get to blackboard resources."
• "You have to pay a lot for the projects, such as sketchbooks, paints, pencils, pattern makers, fabrics and printing."

Security and Safety

Pros:

• "The library is fantastic and the university feels very secure and safe with the inclusion of ID cards and security roaming campus 24/7."

Cons:

• "Terrible security. Not safe at all. The security people do not even look half bothered with incidents."

Academic Support

Pros:

• "Brilliant University, the one characteristic is has is the lectures help you and will talk to you, they won't be snobby and run out the lecture theatre!."
• "Professors are always available if you need help and all of them are competent in their field (all of them holding a relevant PhD)."
• "First year in, good start for my Engineering PhD career and I was surprised by the amount of support they have for PhD students."
• "The staff are experts in their field and always show a caring attitude towards students."
• "Teachers are very friendly 10/10 and are happy to help you with anything."

Cons:

• "The university has good infrastructure but when it comes to academics, it isn't up to that mark."
• "Don`t waste your £9,250 on a university which claims to support its students but in reality very few lecturers are keen to help."
• "It's a very bad university. They always getting back to you later messages and emails."
• "Many of the tutors/lecturers have too high pride to admit to their mistakes and I feel like they're not being very fair with marking students papers and can be very biased."
• "This university is absolutely shocking. No structure whatsoever within the course, lecturers/ tutors do not care whatsoever about student."
• "The digital lecturers would often be frustrated if we were stuck on something or didn’t seem to get it straight away."
• "Personal tutors have never helped me or even stayed in contact to see how I was."

Facilities

Pros:

• "In the studio, there are good facilities with three sewing rooms, a knitting room and loads of big tables to pattern cut, sketchbook work or even garment construction."
• "Its a very beautiful university with beautiful buildings and facilities for students around the campus. University has a very friendly atmosphere."
• "The university provides amazing facilities that are available to everyone."
• "This is a big diverse University. Lots of facilities, lots of refurbished buildings and now has a real campus feel."

Cons:

• "Don't waste your money as nothing is good teaching nor facilities as per their fees."
• "Shame they don't let anyone but art students into the Vijay Patel building."

Communication and Responsiveness

Pros:

• "The University was dropping comprehensive in universities ranking; strangely, they have an excellent education team, I will never forget they had gave all support that I needed."

Cons:

• "Masters results or your email responses or your appeal responses take ages to reach you."
• "I have been trying to communicate with the student welfare team regarding international hardship fund but these people dont have time to respond back to your emails."
• "3 month before i have send a mail still there is no respond from the university side."
• "I was very disappointed with the student department, because I had 3 or 4 emails but I didn't get a single answer."
• "University will not respond to your mails or calls if you have a problem."
• "Very slow in response. Student id not prepared. Never bother to inform."
• "I still haven't received my refund from DMU. It's been more than 90 days."