The University of Law - London Bloomsbury — Attraction in London

How is your application process going wit the UL? Well, mine was super easy to get it, that should have told me something at the begging but I neglected this red flag. As I was searching for the school I wanted to study, I chose by location because of my recent job. I planned to study full time and work part-time at weekends. Well, as I found the school, they called me to advise me what I should be signing up for. And this part was helpful, but honestly wasn’t sure if I should do it in my case. So, I went with the advisors’ guidance. Anyways, it took not even a day for me to get accepted. Wow???? That’s seriously the biggest red flag I should have seen it, but instead as naive as I am in trusting people I thought to myself, they have might like me. Hell NO!!! they simply wanted the 250 pounds. Because I got a call within the same day to pay for it as accept the university offer and then I will be able to sign up. And this is the tricky part, I was told by this advisor that in case I change my mind I have time until SEPTEMBER to CANCEL it, and I specifically asked about a refund of the payment I was about to do it per their request. As they have informed me recently after a long time of trying to apply for scholarships, which I thought I should have been eligible. Oh, and there is more about these so-called scholarships, it’s a big trap. I was able to get an assessment test, which seems unrealistically possible to answer, especially for a novice like me in the law department. This is why I wanted to apply to law school to learn not to get into such misguided situations. Ok, so I was told I can refuse to study at this school of any reason I have. Well, the biggest to me right now was the fact the school changed everything online version. I hate online classes. I understand that because of the pandemic situation they have switched all classes into online classes. It is understandable to do this, but for certain people, like old fashion people like me who like the interaction of the live class and hear the professor talk about the topics, it is 100 times different than this would be online. My second reason was the financial situation, there is no way I could have paid the school in full, and I even applied for credit, because I am new to the country and recently moved from the U.S. I was not eligible for a credit, therefore I had to cancel it, and now the school tells me that I missed the window to get reimbursed. Well, thank you very much for telling me lies at the begging and now making me more disappointed than ever. Their scholarships are a facade, don’t fall for them, please! It’s the biggest trap I got it. How is it possible to be told that I could get reimbursed by September, and when I send the email with cancellation the school tells me that I am not eligible to get a refund. I was outraged because I hate to lie and I HATE to be lied at. This is why I am leaving this review for others to care and think twice before applying to a school like this that doesn’t offer all the support they promise, their website is a money trap and unclear. After I accepted the offer and made the first payment, I was not able to sign up for any courses, unfortunately, it kept giving me to sign up for the entire course that I already have signed up. Why make it so difficult? Why aren’t there any easy way to make a student dashboard much easier to use? Why lie to people and not offer the refund policy information from the start? Why make so many scholarships when none is valid to use? Why have an assessment test when you haven’t studied any law terms and information? Why be so damn brutal to cancel without giving any...

I have found almost nothing I like about studying here. The only thing I like is the use of Lexis, Westlaw and online databases, and some of the course content which has bolstered my current knowledge.

Other than that the experience here has been insulting, expensive, nepotistic, kleptocratic and extremely disappointing.

My experience here at this establishment, is the worse experience with any organisation I've ever had in over 20 years of any sort of professional or academic dealing.

The course is extortionate to an extent, when considering that the open university would have probably been a better option. Because you get all - minus the lack of integrity, empathy and insulting behaviour, for 30% less.

My experience at the uni pre covid was that it it is pretty badly organised, you'll wait months for a response to basic questions, and have to repeat the same email a dozen times, and the response you get will be lack luster, you can't appeal your results, the feedback you get on your results is also pretty lacking, you're only offered two marked pieces of work per term, per module (one is the assessment), there is no sense of community, there are no social events, the extra curricular events are almost non existent (sometimes, and there aren't very many of these either) , but in terms of the scope of the knowledge that they offer, it's limited.

When they respond to your academic, legislative, professional or accommodation problems, instead of actually helping you with things that should be pretty basic easy tasks for any educational establishment. They'll respond to you a week or two later and ask you to get in touch with a mental health company for help with your mental health. Like if you can't help me with a simple academic course, how does sign posting me to mental health services? If you can't signpost or provide academic services properly, who would trust you to sign post mental health services?

If I'm completely honest, my high school, previous university (Brunel), and the college I did my A Levels in, all felt like they provided more than 10x more resource and student/academic experience, than from what I have received studying here.

In terms of extra curricular activities, events at the campus and ways to study with people, there is no contest. There is literally nothing going on at this uni. My old uni had a weekly news letter, a full on events team, as well as an NUS hub, this uni doesn't really offer anything that comes close, it's more like hollow shells of acting like they want to offer these things, with no actual substance, like North Korean facades.

There is no sense of community at this university. And if you want to create events or make a society, you're kinda on your own, as by the time you get a response from the universities societies team, it will be running up to exam time.

Its really expensive for what it is, and you don't really get your monies worth. Like I said I paid 1/3 of what I paid for, when I went to Brunel, it felt like I got 10x more for my money all those years ago.

I haven't enjoyed any part of it. And that was even before the lockdown started.

Now that the entirety of this year has been moved online. I really do regret not doing my degree via the Open University, which is cheaper and will offer more proficient distance learning, due to their experience...

I did my GDL and my LPC here 20 years ago, when it was the College of Law. Now a University, I recently returned to do a part-time LLM via their online campus.

Opted for UoL primarily for the course and mode of study offered – as I work full time, the opportunity to study online and in my own time was very attractive.

Fee was competitive for this type of course.

The LLM course itself was structured as four taught modules (one a term), followed by a 15,000-word dissertation of equivalent value to two modules, which had to be completed over two terms.

Modules were taught via online tutorial (I think it was 10 sessions in a term for each module) – timing of these varied from course to course. Due to timing, live attendance was simply not possible for some modules – 6-8 just isn’t really a practical time unless you work at home.

Because those participating in the course were mostly working, attendance ‘live’ is not compulsory however, and learning can be accessed via catchup later. I would say that, despite this, UoL does require you to fill out an absence form for each session you do not attend live. This I found to be very frustrating (and a little patronising) – attendance is either compulsory or it is not. Judge on results, not box-ticking…

Ability to access modules in own time and at any location was excellent however – I was able to stay up to date whilst in Riyadh, Singapore and Rome – modern technology.

This approach also ensured less emphasis on ‘group’ discussion compared to previous courses, which suits my preferred style.

Quality of the modules varied a bit, as it often does at any place – some lecturers were very engaging, and others less so – to be fair, that was probably in line with my experience 20 years ago though. It did affect the degree to which I engaged with the live sessions though when the lecturer wasn’t so good.

Experience with taking online exams was largely fine, with the submission systems being relatively intuitive to use. IT issues on one exam cost me the opportunity to achieve anything other than a pass overall (no distinction is available if any exam is a ‘resit’), which was frustrating, but such is life…

Dissertation experience was pretty good in the end. Plenty of freedom to choose a subject and sufficient guidance and support to assist the novice. Library service is very good and easy to access remotely.

I’d recommend UoL and this mode of study to anyone who is a good self-starter and prefers an independent approach. If you’re more about building networks, sharing study sessions and working in groups etc, the online campus approach is possibly...