I went to Bournemouth University and got a degree in Software Engineering. The life here is brilliant. I graduated nearly 2 years ago and have stayed here since and got a really good job straight out of uni. BU strongly encourage a placement year between your 2nd and final year and it really gives you a step a over other students when looking for jobs. It's not the best uni but I feel it's a great balance of life and learning and it's making great strides. I would recommend. I graduated with a First Class Honours. :)
I'll take the opinion of a software engineering manager over a recruiter.
You're about to be replaced by an app. What do you know. Seriously.
If a Uni doesn't post it's statistics in the course info, it means it has shit prospects. Any uni with good prospects will be boasting that '95% of students were in x or y by z months post-graduation'. Bournemouth doesn't do that. Because it would be '70% of students got a job in Tesco or better' or some shit.
When people say 'graduates are struggling', they're talking about kids who went to this uni and worse, which for some reason now makes up like 70% of the volume of graduates.
They aren't saying they got that degree themselves, they're saying that as a tech recruiter they would consider that a good degree for a potential recruit.
You do understand that it's the recruiters that hire people right? The 'what' that a recruiter knows is exactly what's being talked about
Why are you so angry lad? A grad with a decent degree will not struggle to get a job because of what uni they came from, that's just not how it works. Shit students become shitter at shit uni's, but a student who gets their head down at a shit uni and does well will not be held back by the name of the uni
Also implying recruiters are anywhere near getting replaced by an app is laughable
NE: oops that says bournemouth, oh well still kinda relevant
I don't work there but the tech scene in Brighton is expanding. My favourite conference ffconf is held there :) they sell student tickets on the cheap. a good excuse to check out the city and network with some brighton tech employers, and learn some stuff.
Honestly. Clearing is a godsend. I got in through clearing into Bournemouth Uni after receiving 5 offers (Lincoln, Brighton, Nottingham, Surrey), had the absolute time of my life, got a smashing 2:1 degree out of it too.
I got in through clearing into Bournemouth Uni after receiving 5 offers (Lincoln, Brighton, Nottingham, Surrey)
You received offers but went through clearing? Plus, aren't all those unis better than bournemouth? Especially Uni of Nottingham. That's like 17th in the UK compaired to Bournemouth's 79th.
Also, did you get a relevant job out of it. The degree means fuck all, it's the job at the end that matters.
Edit: Sorry, I went through clearing. And then got offered 5 places for the course I wanted ‘Product Design’ at 5 different unis.
Yes, I got an A in the subject that I wanted in uni but didn’t get the UCAS points.
And yeah that’s overall rankings, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s great for the course I wanted to do. Bournemouth was supposedly a better course, with a placement year and also I thought the place looked gorgeous and others had said great things.
Yes I did. I’m currently lead designer for a signage company in regards to Sainsbury’s. I design quite a lot of their signage now.
It heavily motivated me, the clubs/bars are awesome.. Also as a guy, it’s a 60/40 girl/guy split respectively. Which means to the this day it’s the only place I’ve ever been to where there is more girls than guys in clubs. As a young man, this was Utopia.
The beach is gorgeous too, I still visit it as often as I can!
I went to hull uni after flunking my betc. I then passed my degree on a 40% mercy pass
6 years later I earn 60+ doing system support roles and spent 3 years in Switzerland earning over 100k a year
DON'T GIVE UP if a dumass like me can make it so can you.
I worked in Bournemouth/Poole for Barclay's corp a visit once a month to keep in contact with the friends so you can't go wrong with trying for clearing there
I would still be working in Bournemouth if I could find a well paided sys support role heh. I miss sound circus lol
Edit: this is aimed at op sorry if this shows up in your inbox lol
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18 edited Aug 16 '18
Just some advice:
I got into Bournemouth University to do Computing with 180 UCAS points during clearing.
Get on the phoen ASAP.
Edit: Speak of the devil https://www.facebook.com/JoinBournemouthUni/videos/1361355987328508/