University of Waikato - Tauranga Campus

Nov 12th, 2022

Beautiful building - a credit to Tauranga
Sep 15th, 2022

Wonderful buildings.
Aug 7th, 2022

May 2nd, 2022

I studied here for 2 semesters. The campus is an amazing facility. I studied business majoring in finance. Many of my tutors were amazing and great tutors but I have had a few issues with tutors that were hard to understand as they spoke English as a 2nd language. In my first semester many students complained about one in particular because of her thick accent and incorrect grammar. She was replaced for a while but came back later in the semester and she still taught other classes. In the 2nd semester when I studied it was almost entirely online due to Covid and was mostly video lectures. One of my tutors was literally impossible to understand. The video lectures were inaudible. I went to tutorials which was with someone else for a while which were fine but it was to review things I basically had to learn myself from slides. I complained and was offered "extra help" from the person running the tutorials but what I really needed was a tutor teaching me the class. I told them I wanted my money back for the paper in which I was basically told no. Imagine you couldn't understand a word the tutor was saying and still had your money taken. I mostly got 40% test marks and got a bump up through a group project which gave me a total of 49% which somehow equalled a pass. I learnt barely anything from the paper and just winged everything with prior knowledge. That's why I'm giving the uni 3 stars. I get that it's a new university and probably hard to find tutors for everything they are offering but it is unacceptable to offer literally inaudible classes. Again, with that being said, many of my other tutors were excellent.
Apr 7th, 2022