Central Saint Martins

An opportunity to visit the University of Arts London, Central Saint Martin's today. Very impressed with the architectural buildings. This institution seems very lively, buzzing and thoroughly feel very comfortable here.

I’m a graduated student from CSM MA.

Best marketing school and worst art school.

Regard student as ATM especially for international student, we have only one teacher in our class, it’s dictatorship. He don’t spend time on us cause he have his part time job outside, teaching student to do portfolio in a China Company.

Our class focused on philosophy but over half percentages of student can’t speak and understand English well, it’s nonsense.

Many student only showed up in degree show because they just want to buy a degree and a CSM brand name, they took photo every time when they went to school and posted to the social media but never dear to show their work.

Disgusting experience.

The degree show is so messy and bad.

It's the graduation showcase time. Rarely we are able to go in and walk around. It's a perfect merge of old and new.

My experience is concerning the Short Courses at UAL in particular CSM. I hope that it's different for full time students.

Overall the course I experienced was poorly run with teachers uninterested in teaching and just filling time. After reaching out to the management with an intial complaint where I politely suggested ways my experience could be improved (for the remainder of the course) it became apparent that they also are very poorly run.

The next day the teacher demanded to know who had complained to which I owned up because I felt so uncomfortable. After talking with the teacher privately they explained that the office had sent them a list with everything that was wrong with their course and needed fixing. They were very upset and told me that I wasn't "cut out for CSM" if I couldnt hack a teacher I didnt like. This is in my opnion unecessary and it was absoloutly not personal from my side - I had only given constructive critism. The management dealt with my email in an appalling way. The teacher was wrong to call out a complaint to the entire class and then speak to me in this manner.

It gets worse. The teacher then took another student aside at lunch to complain about me and my complaint. Following this I complained again about the teachers actions and the management of my initial complaint.

UAL would not give me a refund, only a credit towards another course. I decided to choose a course which involved physical making of something to ensure I got something from it only for this course to be cancelled 3 weeks before the start date. I requested a full refund which they agreed to. That was 21 days ago and I still havent seen the refund in my account. I also know of 3 other students on my course who complained and are also having ongoing battles with short courses management.

There were plenty of feedback forms for students on my course although I notice there are no reviews for short courses available on their website and when I asked to see past reviews before choosing another course they could not give any. I believe that the short courses are a money making venture for UAL and they do not care about student experiences or whether you actually get anything from these courses. I would not recommend UAL short courses to anyone.

We have enjoyed the art exhibition. Lots of effort have been put in. Our relative Mrs Anita Chanda has made that beautiful net sculpture which was hanging from the ceiling. Also we liked the fountains outside the building. We will be visiting another art gallery on 2nd July in 1 Wharf Road near there.

I’m an alumna of one of the colleges of UAL and took short courses here to increase my professional skills and gain brand new experiences in 2018. This college provides loads of short courses, and it will also be nice opportunity to learn something different from your professional fields.
The short course tutors are beneficial, and they are passionate about teaching. They teach the proper techniques and also provide quite helpful and professional information. As I know, both undergraduate study and short course study in this uni, the short courses are pretty good for quickly learning technical skills for professionals. (A bit expensive, though)

The school canteen and the cafes improved significantly, and the taste improved. Also, other facilities like the art supply shop and the library are much better than before! I envy current students, so use all possibilities and don’t waste your college life there. Work hard:)
Don’t forget to buy a college tote at the art shop; it will be a good souvenir.

My favorite school. Always always the coolest!

Central St Martins is Among the Best University For Fashion and Design Studies.