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<\/p>\nPicking your university, out of the 100s out there, especially when you have just cleared your exams can be super stressful and confusing. I, personally, felt so so lost that I was convinced I would have a panic attack (keep in mind that I was moving from India to the UK, a country I hadn’t even visited before). So when the unknowns played into the equation, I was tense, to say the least, but that is until I clicked on Cardiff University and googled it further. Then I knew that this was where I wanted to be.<\/p>\n
Here are some factors that helped me pick Cardiff University without attending any open days or talks:<\/p>\n
Being a nerdy teenager, the first thing I looked into was the course ranking for Journalism and Media and compared it to all UK universities. When I checked the QS rankings and saw that Cardiff University’s Journalism course (and King College’s Journalism course) ranked 25 in the world, my mind was boggled. I knew that this was amazing because I was genuinely seeking a course that was ranked well rather than just general university rankings. In that aspect, I already knew Cardiff University was going to be the way to go.<\/p>\n
The next thing I had to check was if the costs of the courses and living mattered and differed in my preferred universities. And yes, my god yes, they did! Cardiff had a much lower cost of living and was one of the best university towns. Moreover, the course fees differed to a great extent and I was paying almost 5000 pounds a year less by simply picking Cardiff University. Being an international student, the fees are already super high so when I saw the cost difference, I had to give Cardiff University a plus point.<\/p>\n
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When I was doing my mandatory reading about Cardiff as a city, I realised just how much I wanted to study in a student city. While I come from a much bigger city, all I wanted was to feel safer since I was now going to be living on my own, thousands of miles away from my family. After checking the statistics and talking to current students, I became aware that Cardiff is a perfectly safe and accessible (also cheaper) student city. This was a big relief to not just me but also my parents. I then discovered just how much there is to do for students in Cardiff and also, the amazing student discounts offered by stores.<\/p>\n
Another reason I was impressed and picked Cardiff University has to be their joint honour degree program- BA Journalism, Media and English Literature. In the different universities that I was applying to, almost none of them offered my exact subject combination. While I was okay with picking Journalism as my major, I also really wanted to pursue English Literature and writing. When I was applying to Cardiff University and came across this joint honour course, I knew I wanted to apply and study here. I also got to pick Creative Writing as a module which made me super happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picking your university, out of the 100s out there, especially when you have just cleared your exams can be super stressful and confusing. I, personally, felt so so lost that […]","protected":false},"author":6946,"featured_media":16215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693,12,704],"tags":[21,637,892],"class_list":["post-16213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff-university-experiences","category-only-in-cardiff","category-why-university","tag-cardiffuniversity","tag-applying-to-university","tag-study"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions\/16253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}