Kingston University Reviews 19

I am studying Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at Kingston University, and as a mature student, my experience has been extremely positive.

The teaching quality is outstanding; academic staff are highly knowledgeable, energetic, and genuinely committed to student success. Their enthusiasm in the classroom is evident and impactful, bringing complex technical concepts to life and consistently linking theory to real-world practice. This creates an engaging, practical, and intellectually stimulating learning environment.

The course is well structured and thoughtfully designed, with a strong balance between theory and hands-on learning. It has significantly strengthened my technical skills, confidence, and analytical thinking. I would highly recommend Kingston University to anyone considering a career in cybersecurity or digital forensics.

The photography department at KSA has insane amounts of favouritism. If you are not one of the lecturers’ favourites don’t expect any enthusiasm or care for your work, countless times i have witnessed those they favour being put on blast and display with pride whilst the rest get brushed under the carpet.

Ello?? During covids, for very 3-time. A large group of graduates were given 6-min to leave computer labs to enable the teaching of other sessions needing ‘blue boards’. You could have managed this better

I first applied to study Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston Unviersity) through PCAS. On the PCAS application form, I had put down the schools I had been to.

I then got a letter from a Dr. Jeremy Ingham who was the dean in the School Of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Kingston Polytechinc. In his letter, he said that he too had a deaf son who also went to one of the schools I had been to. I knew his son who was one of the prefects in the sixth form at the school. He had a really bad acne problem. He was rather very plain and ugly, not very handsome-looking.

Which encouraged me and made me feel positive. So an interview was arranged.

One very early November morning (1989), I went down to Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey for the interview with Dr. Ingham. I was very excited and looking forward to the interview. I arrived there when everyone was still in bed, the street lights were on, and it was still dark.

But, in the interview, I just couldn't understand anything he said. He was very hard to lipread. I pretended to understand everything he said because I didn't want to seem stupid. My heart sank a bit. He did not even try to communicate with me in sign language at all, despite having a deaf son. Then he took me on a tour of the polytechnic, and at the conclusion of the interview, he said that his son (David) was living somewhere in Esher, Surrey. Jerry had this big scale map of Surrey behind his chair in his office.

So when the offers came round in August 1990, I just wasn't sure if Kingston was the right place for me (I was getting cold feet) because there seemed to be no support services in place for deaf students at all, and Jerry never said anything about support services for deaf students. I didn't just want a repeat of the first year I spent at college after leaving school where I learned absolutely nothing at all because the college had no support services in place for deaf students at all.

So, on the PCAS replly slip, I put a 'X' in the 'DECLINE' box, put the slip in the envelope and sealed it. Left the envelope on the kitchen table for either mum or bruv to post it.

Mum managed to steam the envelope open, she saw what I had put, she put Tipp-ex on the 'X' in the 'DECLINE' box and put a tick in the 'ACCEPT' box without asking me why I had turned down the offer of a place at Kingston and asking me what I wanted to do instead, she showed me what she did before she put the slip back into the envelope and resealed it.

So, in September 1990, I started at Kingston Polytechnic. In November 1990 (2 months later), stopped going to classes and dropped out of the course. No-one bothered to chase me to ask me why I had stopped going to classes. I just was not getting any spport at all. I then started watching "Neighbours" (the Aussie soap) one day because I was bored.

Then mum and I had a meeting with Dr. Jerry Ingham in his office there in May 1991. He then asked why I hadn't met with my personal tutor. Which surprised me and shocked me because none of the tutors on the course ever bothered to approach me to explain to me that he would be my personal tutor, and I had no idea who I was supposed to be meeting with.

While I was on the Electrical & Electronic Engineering course at Kingston, I became friendly with two of the students who were also on the same course too, and one of them happened to be from Portugal.

I also got this visit from this young man from Derby who was able to communicate with me in sign language (which made me very relieved, I didn't have to write anything on paper) because he had explained that he had learned to sign there because there is a Royal School For The Deaf at Derby so that was how he came to know sign language. He said that he was on the Computing course at Kingston.

I got chatting with the Portuguese student through the computer terminals in the computer labs. I liked him, he was very friendly and willing to chat with me, whereas none of the other students on the E & E Eng course would. The Portuguese explained that he had applied for a transfer to the Computing course and he got it.

So the young man from Derby and the Portuguese student got me thinking about getting a transfer to the Computing course at Kingston.

So I then asked Dr. Jerry Ingham for a transfer to the Computing course. Instead of arranging a transfer to the computing course, he immediately dropped me from the E & E Eng course. Why?

When I said to the Portuguese student that Jerry had dropped me from the course instead of putthing thorugh a transfer to the computing course, he (the Portuguese student) said that the polytechnic probably needed his EU ERASMUS grant (which allowed EU students to study at UK universities) more than they needed my LEA money, and I agreed with him.

I left Kingston after the May 1991 interview with Jerry, and I was very glad to leave because I hated the whole place.

How did this university get a gold standard ?
They are unorganised, keep changing timetables, they keep putting me on a different course than the actual course I applied for and when I email about it they keep acting like they do not know what I am talking about. I have to involve external university forum to help sort this.
No signal in the university building,
The bus to get to the university from the station is awful, you have to wait 1hour, no university bus from the station. Library area look like a play school .
No tfl student card, it is awful: I wish I read the reviews before I applied. I would not have applied to this awful university.

Same workshop cancelled twice at late notice, difficult to contact anyone at the university, refund was prompt though.

They have non sense staff and i think we should report them to home office as they force students to travel United Kingdom without student visa and once they arrive then they force them to withdraw the visa application or they threat to cancel their admission....i have requested home office and file a complaint in the home office for the cancellation of their sponsor license as their authorisation officer of KU UKVI is non sense and illiterate guy who should be sacked as thousands of students suffer due to his stupidity. I request all students to hold a protest for the cancellation of their sponsor license and home office should audit all the files and take cognigance of all students who are tortured due to the illiterate and stupid authorisation officer of UKVI team. Their sponsor license should be cancelled at any cost to stop the illegal immigration practices. As many students are victims of their wrong actions because their staff does not have legal sense. They need to be thorougly audited I am dam sure they didn't adhere to the sponsor license training instructions and implementing their own unethical practices.

I am studying computer science 2nd year. If you are thinking you can work during g studying you cant timetable is bad, everyday you have to be there for 1 or 2 workshops and lectures.

There are some bright stars lectures that are very helpful and you will enjoy their company. Some lecturers are really bad, boring and you will be better off not attending because you will learn more at home.

Their are going very slow with programming aspect teaching the total basics from year one to the first half of year two, excited what I will learn the second half.

Computer science ends at the end of March there aren't any exams during summer everything is during the year but also ending in March? Dont think I am getting my money's worth there. Overall things seem rushed but there are some really professional lecturers especially for programming so that is a positive.

I will make sure to update review as time goes.

I had a fantastic time at Kingston University (1997-2000). The 1st year halls were great fun and the surrounding town was lovely, safe, and had good nightlife. I made full use of the cutting edge computer resources and tutoring they provided us with which had a direct impact on my earning potential in later careers.

Waste of time the courses at business are way too theoretical and out of touch with reality
The admission process is very poor and the back office unhelpful

Overall a poor university experience. I highly recommend NOT going unless you want to be scammed and have your money wasted. This university operates as a business. They do not care about their students and you will be disappointed.

Staff and classes are hit or miss, personal tutors don't reply to emails, students are given very little support, and the other students here are anti-social unless you are already in their group. You won't have much of a social life. The halls and bus system are abysmal. Take a workshop class if you have the chance; lectures are pretty boring and depends upon staff. There aren't many opportunities for employment or internships, either. There's also a healthy dose of favouritism and occasional nepotism here. Complaints don't work, either.

The university is in debt and will do whatever it can to take your money and improve its ranking. Best to look elsewhere.

I studied Digital Media In the science department. I just want to say if you are about to apply DON'T! The course director is discriminating, the media modules are too broad and you don't gain any skills that will actually secure you a job. Just a little from everything but no working skills developed during the 3 years. The material that he was giving us for VFX Production and pos ware 5 -7 years old. No creativity at all, ZERO design teaching, only programs - you can learn them with courses from Udemy. I have learned more from tutorials than from the University. The teaching for Visual effects was so bad that I had to buy an online course for every assignment! Favorisum and people cheating and getting better grades than people who actually study. My advice to Kingston is to fire Sunil Chatalahala! He is not suitable for a teacher! The people in Science are very introverted. However They are good teachers in Kingston may be try Computer Science or Syber, but if you think that you will find a job with the digital media course forget! Fortunately, I found a job as a UX designer but only thanks to my own self-development and the teacher who was teaching The UX module. The Professional Development module is also not bad.

A corrupt institution.

They don’t support students and when complaints are raised about poor student support, they intimidate you or threaten to withdraw.
Their complaint procedures are flawed. The teaching is ridiculous and half of the lectures seem clueless to what they are teaching leaving students more confused.

Personal tutor I had always tried to drag me down at every opportunity they had. Always pointing out my weaknesses yet provides no advice on how to improve.

My 11years old son and I were waiting to be seen for more than 3hs at the Kingston hospital. What was shocking was that they were all talking and laughing while we were waiting in the waiting area. I asked twice and they said they were very busy and made me feel like I was bothering them and impatient.
Very sad to be treated like that at the health sistema where we pay so much taxes.

I am a student enrolled with them for Msc IBM. Definitely not the best for students. Unprofessional staff and only cares about the fee payments. Students are just Cash cows from their perspective

They are not good with people who have medical difficulties at all, I was promised that they will support me even if funding runs out to continue my studies but I am scared they will renege on their promise as it was not in writing. this review is for my experience so far and I have not finished my studies so cant give a comprehensive review at this time.

Unacceptable experience, terrible staff, misleading information, DO NOT APPLY THERE AND WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Misleading perspectus,misleading claims about availability of accommodation. Bullying and intimidation of those that made complaints.