Northumbria University (Faculties) > Computers, Engineering & Sciences

Advantages: Sounded to good to be true.
Disadvantages: It was.

...to show me on a computer that was connected to their router. He tried to initiate a connection twice from scratch, unsuccessfully, before going in through a saved configuration. I’ll let you make your own decision on his extensive experience! The rest of the morning went well and the instructor was able to solve most people’s problems. The course would have been a lot better if he’d been available at all times. We were asked who wanted to take the ...
...asked if he could show us what we actually got for passing the exam, i.e. a genuine Cisco certificate or something. He showed me a Microsoft qualified card and said the Cisco one was similar. I wonder if he was even qualified! We finished reading through the book just in time for the student to take his exam. This student had previously taken a boot camp and narrowly missed out. We were all issued with a disc containing router simulation software ... Read review

Advantages: good if you can already program
Disadvantages: waste of money is you cannot already program

...year, I joined the MSc Computing postgraduate conversion course at Northumbria University. This was supposed to be for non IT graduates, except that I found that 90% of students already had BSc's in Computer Science! Basically, money talks! Especially when overseas students pay more than double what UK students pay in course fees. From the start, the pace was breakneck, with the expectation that you should be able to write a fairly complex C++ program ...
...ask for help and even when they were tracked down they always said that they were too busy to help or gave you 2 minutes (even in light of £3,000 course fees). So, be warned. These so called conversion courses demand more than GCSE Maths, which is the only requirement on top of any degree. In the end, I settled for the Certificate. Several others also opted for this or failed completely. ... Read review

Advantages: You have a degree at the end
Disadvantages: Too many too list here

...not appropriate, not only is multimedia virtually non-existent (2 units out of the 30 I have done so far) but the computing is fairly lacking too (5 units out of the 30) all the other units are business based, mind numbingly boring and in my opinion are not worth doing or even relevant for the course. For example the latest unit I have completed on my "Multimedia Computing" course is Applied professionalism and management, which was centred on business ...
...interested in Multimedia and computing, discount this course immediately and go to a different University, if your into computing for business - then this will suit you - mind you'll not learn anything to do with computing. If there was a zero star available, I would have chosen this. ... Read review