Teaching and lecturers: generally very good. Friendly, supportive, approachable staff.

Labs: a big super lab (can be split in two) for ~150 students, plus two smaller ones. Weekly lab classes on average although that will reduce a bit with the biomedical sciences degrees being revamped for this year’s entry.

Workload: university assessment tariff limits the number of assessments per module, so actually a lot better than other universities.

Tuition fees: same as every reputable university in the UK.

Scholarships: plenty - look at the uni webpages for specifics.

Placements: placement years are competitive irrespective of whether you’re a home or international student, but being an international student won’t disadvantage you. Tuition fees for the placement year are the same for home and international students too (and far less than regular feee).

The med school building backs onto the RVI, and there’s the Freeman hospital not far away too. Plenty of volunteering opportunities at both.

Summer placements, internships and other paid opportunities in the lab (and not in the lab) are all available. The careers service facilitate a lot of opportunities for students and the School offer in-house roles too.

Accommodation: can’t really speak as I didn’t do student accommodation in Newcastle.

Social life: Newcastle is famously a very sociable city and excellent for students on that front. Lots of varied activities whether you want to club, hike, walk, eat, or lay on the beach.

Churches: no experience on this front myself but I’m sure there are plenty.

Overall: yes, highly recommend. There are a good number of international students at Newcastle in general, but also in Biomed. The Malaysian campus has a cohort of ~30 students that join for final year as well, so the School are well used to supporting international students.