University Of Strathclyde

The University is gearing up towards One Campus, migrating this summer from the Jordanhill campus into the city centre Anderson campus. Exciting times ahead!

I did a summer study abroad here complete with staying in the dorms and using the facilities. It is a nice campus, albeit not as esthetically pleasing as other unis in the area. It’s location lends itself to really exploring the city and anything you really need can be reached in a short walk.

A great University with a good reputation.
The campus is all over the place, in two different locations in fact. Unless you do teaching though, you’re likely to be situated in the John Anderson Campus which provides sufficient challenges to navigate your way around from class to class. Good exercise!
It’s located near some great hot spots for nightlife, shopping, eateries and everything else worth investigating.
They have a good Careers Service and a really good library. A PROPER library, where you can’t even sneeze.
The buildings are not as eye-​catching as those at Glasgow University, and the overall teaching is not, in my humble opinion, as that of Glasgow Caledonian.
Strathclyde is so huge, numbers wise that it’s easy to get lost in the crowd and fail to make connections with staff.
It’s a great University nonetheless, overall.

Poor old Strathclyde University. How can it compare to the grandeur and history of its West End competitor Glasgow? Many of its buildings can only be described as plain ugly due to the fact they were constructed in the 70s, a decade where nothing tasteful was every produced.
Glasgow University, meanwhile, has tons of examples of breathtaking archicture which includes the staggering gothic tower, one of the most beautiful buildings in Scotland.
After a lot of research into various courses at Scottish universities, I decided to study English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Strathclyde immediately after high school. I have never regretted this decision. The quality of the teaching and variety of classes was much more important to me than aesthetic surroundings. The English Department offered a wide range of classes from Romanticism and Modernism to Shakespeare to Children’s Literature to Theatre Studies.
When I studied there, the department had the highest rating possible for teaching and research. Strathclyde also offered vocational courses and taught skills that would provide useful in the workplace, more so than Glasgow University I think.
Strathclyde owns a number of historic buildings, including Barony Hall and Ross Priory beside Loch Lomond. My third year performance class was held in the beautiful Ramshorn Theater in the Merchant City.
Strathclyde has an excellent reputation for its engineering and and politics courses and has the best business school in the country.
I look back on my university years very fondly. This is probably more to do with the friends I made and how suitable I was for the course I studied and less to do with the university itself. However, when I think of the great time I had there, Strathclyde will always get five stars from me.

I’ve sailed the ships of both Strathclyde and Glasgow university, and despite having learned a subject that has some relevance in the real world at this one, I can still firmly declare it as the second best uni in the city.
The atmosphere at Strathclyde is far removed from the traditional /​bohemian feel at it’s rival, down to a combination of Strathclyde’s concentration on engineering and business subjects, and it’s tendency to attract a more state-​school crowd.
Though I found the teaching to be of a very high standard, I did find the atmosphere of the campus itself a little dull, though in fairness that may be to do with the fact i was doing a postgrad here and so less invovled in the after-​class scene. The grey buildings and fairly featureless surrounding area are far less inspiring than the grandeur of Glasgow Uni and it’s surrounding area, and the tired student union that seems to get less busy each year doesn’t help.
Ironically enough had I done my undergrad here I would probably have fitted in a bit better than I did with the more eccentric Glasgow Uni crowd, but it was those exact eccentricities that I loved about the place. At Strathclyde you’ll never get the pleasue of watching your millionaire roomate stomping up and down on an anti-​poverty march whilst being entirely unaware of the irony, nor will you get dusty old lecturers who still wear academic robes.
You will however get a high standard of education and good student support in a functional, campus, so still top marks.

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As a curent student of this uni, now in my 5^th and final year, I suppose I am well-​placed to review it! I’m doing a MSci Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. It’s very hard work, yes, but the lecturers expecially really help you out. Because I am taught in both the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering, it means that I have had experience of two of the five faculties. The Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry is officially the best in Scotland! The Department of Chemical Engineering is the 2^nd biggest in the UK!
You can probably tell I’m proud of Strath, and I am because it’s a great place to be educated! It never gets as good press as Glasgow Uni, but it really is the best place in Glasgow (possibly Scotland?) for Science and Engineering. As far as I can tell, Glasgow is better for the arts though.
In my experience, the lecturers are almost unwaveringly dedicated, approachable and helpful. Research-​wise there are some world-​renowned experts working here. This impresses me so much that I’m actually thinking of continuing on to do a PhD here!