Review: Liverpool Hope University

Hi everyone, my final stop on my 'university road trip' was Liverpool Hope University.

I did quite like this university however the negatives (particularly the first one) were too major for me to ignore.

Positive

• Accommodation - Space: All the rooms were very good sizes and you could fit a lot in them - no storage problems at this uni!
• Accommodation - Prices: All the accommodation is very cheap and affordable and to be honest (unlike UCLan) you could tell why. Here is the accommodation page for first year students.
• Joint: For a lot of the courses it has to be joint which I think is a good thing as it broadens your options and what you are learning.
• Study abroad: If that is something you are looking for that is a huge bonus however I am personally not bothered if a uni provides this or not.
• Campus: The campus is absolutely beautiful!
• Small university: The uni is really small which means everyone knows everyone and you have a really close relationship with your teachers which I think is really nice. However this does mean it would be quite hard to get in to as they have a strict number of students they let in to keep the uni small.
• Staff/Students: All the students and staff were really friendly and always up for a chat which I have only experienced at UCLan (must be the area). Spent most of the day with 2 third-year students who were lovely and really informative, wish I knew their names but for some reason it never came up in the 4 hours I was talking to them..

Negative

• Linear not modular: I don't know about the other courses but psychology is assessed in linear not modular. I don't know if you know what that means but basically rather then doing a module, being assessed, doing a module, being assessed, etc.. it means that you learn the entire year and are assessed on all of it at the end (apart from assignments) which I really don't like. I've been doing linear at school for 3 years now and it is not fun, trust me.
• Accommodation - continuing students: I got the impression that after the first year you have to find your own accommodation for second and third year and do not get assisted by the uni in this process.
• Accommodation - character: This is a more personal one but I didn't really like how old all the accommodation was and that there was no attempt to modernise them at all. I couldn't take pictures as the tour was very rushed and there was no time unfortunately.
• Course confusion: Again this is a personal one but I want to be an educational psychologist and the uni could not decide whether me doing psychology with early years or psychology with childhood & youth would be best as they are fairly similar.

I did like the uni and if the assessment was not linear I would actually seriously consider this and just deal with the old accommodation so that is a shame. If it was possible to give students the individual option to do linear or modular that would be great and I would definitely be applying here so if this does not bother you then I urge you to visit it and apply!

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*Disclaimer - these opinions are all my own*