4. You’ll have a lot of opportunities to make new friends
Moving to London alone for the first time can be daunting so joining a society at your university can have a huge impact on your social life. It will also allow you to widen your social circles beyond your course. At our University, you’ll have plenty of categories to choose from. Some of these categories include academic, cultural, faith, political campaigns and causes and student media amongst many others.
“I have engaged in several activities with the Students’ Union. The most interesting one was the FANS programme. ‘FANS’ stands for Friends of Arriving New Students. I was working with one of my seniors on the CMP course to help new students when they arrived on campus for the first time in September 2021. It was a great feeling assisting the new students to navigate and settle on their course. It was a delight to help them, get to know them and be a part of their University journey. I would join the FANS programme again to help more students feel welcome during Arrivals Week.” – Joseph Vaz Nicholas, Contemporary Media Practice BA student
5. You’ll enjoy our industry-level facilities
All students have access to a wide range of industry-standard facilities, tools and resources to develop their professional skills. These facilities include Financial Market suites, Interpreting Labs, professional film and television studios, radio stations, photography darkrooms and labs amongst many others.
“There is a whole block of buildings dedicated to my course at our university. We have a huge film studio and a TV studio on the ground floor, dozens of editing rooms on the first floor and sound facilities on the second floor. The studio has industry-standard equipment and it’s just an awesome feeling to work in there. The editing suites are available for us to use seven days a week and they are a nice place to edit our projects. With all the necessary software programmes installed on them and all the screens available to us, it is much better than doing post-pro.” – Tomas Berka, Film BA student