Heriot-Watt University Review

So Heriot-Watt, it was actually last minute decision, I must say because I was planning on going to Canada actually. And then I was going to do a food and nutrition course. Okay, but then the plan changed in the end. And then because I was interested in psychology from before, like in 10th grade and then 12. One of my close friends was joining Heriot watt University, and she told me about this university that okay, this sounds like, you know, I'm joining first year and then I had, you know, look like I saw the courses that were available in Heriot-Watt University. And that's when I thought, okay, maybe I should be going forward with psychology, because I've been wanting to do for a while. So that's how I got to go to a friend you can say

I think the course content doesn't change much. But it's actually nice. Like the experience, I think, was better because I feel like the professor's, I think it was better there. Like, I don't know, maybe the experience is different. That's all the course content doesn't change. But the experience is different.

I had to fill the application. And I think Statement of Purpose also I had to write as in why I want to do this course what interests me in it. So I had to do the that. And then I think I had done TOEFL that time because I was planning and my plan was a slightly different that time. So I did TOEFL. So provided those scores. But I was not completely sure if that was required. As in like, you know, how IELTS or TOEFL is compulsory. I don't I don't think it was compulsory for me. But I thought it might, because I had them that time. Yeah. So that was there. And then only SOP. Okay, nothing else. It was just the grade. The 12 grades marks, like how much I scored? And then the statement of purpose, and then the application.

I did, actually, I did an internship for two months. I thought it would be more counselling based, I think overall because it was a start-up company. I did. I was in HR. And then I was like, also, like, my intention was to observe counselling sessions. But I was a part of the organisation like I learned other skills you can see. So it myself but one of my friends had suggested it because she knew I was like doing psychology and she I read her new case. So she was she suggested it to me and then I applied I emailed them saying that I'm interested in the internship opportunity. And then they had an interview. Like the Okay, they had confirmed that it's okay. Like they are acknowledge my interest, you can say that I sent and then they had an interview, and then it was a fairly simple process.

The teaching approach depends actually, there's a mix of professors, some of them were really good, but some of them were not good. Like, they wouldn't engage us as much and mostly the management classes, because they were very big, like, we had a lot of students in the same lecture. So they wouldn't have the time to actually engage. So there's a mix, like some professors were very approachable, some were not. And some used to read from slides. So, it depends from lecture to lecture, but the overall experience was good. They didn't have any like favouritism or feel like they will find like they didn't. They didn't evidently show that, which is good, actually.

The Library and the resources are definitely better in UK because the library in Dubai is smaller, and the resources that we get also is lesser. So I would say that, like in terms of like the study rooms, or even the individual spaces, I think there's a lot more availability in UK than in Dubai, because the campus in itself is much smaller. So I would say experiences definitely much better. So, it has a lot of clubs actually. Like in the sense like, it's called clubs, but like, I wasn't a part of many you can say, but there was those ones in drama club, social club. So it's like there's one for dance as well as a dance club. So like, there were extracurriculars dance, as far as I remember those ones for sports and gym as well. These are the extracurriculars I can remember. So we used to have lectures, and we should have tutorials, so they would do separate parts and tutorials, it used to be similar to seminars where they make us do activities, or the makers read a case study, and then you would discuss it or answer some questions based on that. So it was two separate elements and our lecture folder towards so we used to have tutorials as well, but it wasn't a part of the lecture.

Okay, so, Heriot-Watt University, I lived on campus for one year, and I lived off campus, like I stayed the student accommodation, but there was not provided by the campus. Okay, so on campus, the thing is, I had a attached washroom, but I didn't have it, I used to share the kitchen. So the cost was lesser that was 117 pounds for per month. So and it was better in the sense that I was close to campus that was the major advantage you can say, but otherwise it was far away from the city. So it kind of I kind of didn't go enough. I involved enough because there was so far. It used to take like 40 minutes to get to the centre. So I mean it It isn't too much But somehow feels like I want to go kind of feeling a little closer than wouldn't be much of like, given that sometimes the weather's not exactly great. You don't feel you're getting out. So, but I think that's the disadvantage about being on campus. But if you're active person, right, if you don't mind the weather, and you're not an active person, you would go irrespective. So, right. I think it also depends on the person you are. But yeah, so that is one thing. The cost was 117 Pounds. So in terms of cost, also, because I didn't have the kitchen, I think because sharing the kitchen, it was 117 per month, but the room was nice. The room, so because like even in that first three months, I stayed in different rooms. But because I decided to extend my stay, like staying in it, and then I shifted to another room, but the first one was better than the second one. Off campus, it's a little more expensive one No, 125 it was a shared kitchen, I would have a kitchen to share with five others. And I had my own boss. That was I think it was better place because they were like, better proximity, like those grocery stores around and like the food places. And also it was closer, like it was midway. So it was halfway to my university and halfway to the city. So don't feel like I told you there was so much better I feel.