The University of Essex: Reviews and photos

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Independent reviews

Potter guides review
Designed and built in the mid-1960s, this campus embodies all the dream-theories about University life at that time: many of them relating back to Oxbridge-style concepts of collegiate life and learning; some embodying a timeless belief that optimum conditions for learning are delivered through excellent facilities for research, teaching, culture and sport, in beautiful, serene surroundings to a student community reasonably screened from the distractions and concerns of the outside world…
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Guardain university guide review
Established in 1965, Essex is a relatively small university with a good academic reputation. The university's main academic strengths are in the humanities: it has good reputations in politics, philosophy, art history and law. The university is particularly attractive to international students: more than 2,000 non-EU students out of a student body of just over 9,000
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Sunday Times University Guide
The 6,000 full-time students rattle around a spacious 200-acre campus just outside Colchester. About a third of students come from overseas and the university has a strong track record in recruitment from the working classes and state schools.
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