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At first glance, we are the little brother stood in the shadows of our bigger, more successful elder sibling: the Uni of. But what those lot don’t realise is we’re much more than that.

For starters, UoB doesn’t have a journalism course. What’s that about? In fact, they don’t offer many of the more vocational degrees that UWE does, preferring to focus on “serious” academic topics.

Which would be fine, if it actually translated into graduates getting jobs. UWE is in the top ten unis for guaranteed graduate jobs in the UK according to the Telegraph. That’s ahead of most Russell Group unis, including Bristol.

You won’t hear many UWE grads complaining that they can’t find a job anywhere.

Obviously league tables and statistics don’t tell the whole story, and there’s a lot more to the uni experience than being able to come out the other end with a job. That’s why it’s so good we’re located in, let’s face it, possibly the best city in the UK.

As well as getting to enjoy all the great nightlife, food, and shopping that Briz has to offer, we’ve also got three separate campuses to spread out over, so you’re never going to feel claustrophobic bumping into the same familiar faces.

Plus, each campus is dedicated to a different area of study: academic subjects at Frenchay, aspiring nurses at Glenside and creative industry kids at Bower Ashton. So, you get to spend your day surrounded by people with the same values and interests as you, which is essential when you first get here and you’re trying to make friends.

By contrast, at other unis you have to put up with all manner of braying idiots using the same library as you even though it’s not even the one for their degree.

Lectures in a mansion: who needs Oxford?

And, when you need to get away from it all, there’s Ashton Court Mansion. Yes, that’s right, Bower Ashton (aside from being the best campus of all three) actually holds lectures within a mansion. Where else do you get that?

Only the most heartless students would complain that the 15 minute walk through beautiful woodland is tiresome and repetitive, or that they have to put up with seeing this out of their lecture hall window.

Look how awesome it is

So our lecture halls are ridiculously nice, but surely that means our halls are probably pretty crap, right? Think again.

We call it the “student village” and it’s exactly as idyllic and perfect as that sounds.

Another plus point: compared to the other side of Bristol, our SU can actually throw a pretty good club night.

The end result of all this is that by the time you reach the end of your degree, you’ll be wishing you could do it all over again.

Hardly your average walk to campus