Indeed. The living costs for each year are at least equivalent to the tuition fee (£9000), and can be much higher, especially if you go to a universitiy in a city like London.
I was fortunate in graduating before the tuition fee increase. My yearly tuition fees were £3400. That's in huge...
Generally in the UK if you study science or engineering at university you have absolutely no say in what modules you take for the first two years. Only in third year do you get a very limited choice of what to study (i.e you might have control over 1/3 of your modules in 3rd year if you're...
I agree with this. That's what I did for my undergraduate 3-year degree here in the UK. It didn't stop me getting into one of the best universities in the entire world to study for my PhD chemical engineering.
Come to think of it, I was much less pressured/stressed than my friends who went to...
Eugh.
Postgraduate students benefit most from the equitment.
Undergraduate students do not. They slave away in the labs for free (working on their undergraduate research)...and they have to pay to do it too!
It was the case at my university. TBH, even if it wasn't the case, I still wouldn't have bothered to get out of bed in the morning to go to a lecture at 9.00 am.
The fact of the matter is, universities are filled with professors that can't teach. That's the real problem, and that's why many students, myself included, prefer a good textbook. Professors that are good teachers are few and far between.
I myself prefer a textbook over a teacher.
Research in physics and chemistry heavily overlap in many areas e.g. nanotechnology. In fact, many universities offer degrees in "Chemical Physics".
Chemistry is an important subject, and it will keep doors open to you later down the line.
In the research laboratory in which I work, about 10%...
If you have an hour of time to spend, and you get more out of reading a textbook instead of attending a lecture, then obviously it's not worth you're while attending...
Simples...