r/GlasgowUni

(APART FROM INDIVIDUAL ENROLMENT QUESTIONS. Don’t ask me those. I can’t do IT and I know it’s a terrible system bro I’m sorry)

Hello students new to Glasgow Uni! I feel quite bad after being amused by some of the new start questions on here. So I’m trying to be a good human by offering some pointers.

Final year UofG PhD researcher here with lecturing experience.
Glaswegian born and bred.
She/her.
Disabled student (so can also share about this part of uni experience)

- Lectures and seminars typically start 5 mins after scheduled, and finish 5 before.

- If you’re scheduled in far buildings one after the other, I’d give a wee polite email to the lecturer of your second class explaining this, get there as quick as possible, and enter quietly without disrupting stuff. This happens to tonnes of people, including your lecturers!

- Campus map here - https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/maps/ but you can also use google maps for almost all named buildings to work out routes and time to walk etc.

- If you use that above UofG campus map, most buildings have a link to their AccessAble page. (Click on the building and the link will come up in blue). This will give accessibility info but also just shows a photo of the building entrance, which would be helpful for most!

- The UofG website is a bit crap to navigate. I almost always google whatever I need to find out plus “Uni of Glasgow” and let google find the right bit of the website for me.

- Moving to Glasgow? three essentials I’d recommend to make life so much better - Vitamin D supplements, a lightweight rain jacket, and a warm heavyweight rain jacket.

Ask anything below and I’ll see what I can answer! Hopefully others in similar position to me can help out 🤝

Ok tbf I did get an answer from a staff member in the life sciences department but I’m just so desperate but I managed to enrol on bio 1A as an elective but not 1B. I got told the spaces given to people on my degree (chem) were full but I could wait it out though it would be unlikely. Is it the best idea to wait it out or with how busy bio is should I look at something else? Which in that case, has anyone ever done the sciskills or enviro bio semester 2 course?

Thank you!!

going to glasgow this september and although I know there’s freshers week to be making friends, I was wondering whether anyone wants to talk or anything beforehand…might be fun to meetup during freshers asw??!

Edit note: My instas jjh_5608 if anyone wants to add

i've just completed enrollment (first year student, if it isn't obvious!) and i'm a bit concerned with one class finishing at 1pm in the james mccune smith building then the next starting at 1pm in bute hall. should i have rejigged the rota or is this common? i'm concerned about arriving 15mins late to a lecture 😭 any tips?

I'm a new student in the first year and I literally have no idea where to start with enrolment. The website is so confusing, I don't know how to add stuff or even what classes I need to enrol in based on my course?

I seriously have no idea what I'm supposed to do. My course is molecular biology with biotechnology if that helps.

Can anyone give any advice on how I'm supposed to know what to do?? I'm so lost

Thanks all​​

Would it be possible to enrol in an elective that isn't listed under the “Enrol by my requirements” section? Also, since Economics is my main degree, would I be able to take something like Law as an elective, or is law more limited?

Hey everyone 👋

We’re current students at Glasgow uni and like every year we’ve made a 2026 GC for Desi (South Asian) students. If you’re a Desi joining this year, do join the chat - you can ask us anything you’re confused about, get a better idea of your degree, the city, and just talk to people who are already here or joining with you.

It’s also a nice way to meet people early and not show up knowing no one :)

Here’s the link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IErHlH6Rybu8yrTC0XhNrS?s=cl&p=i&ilr=2

Hello!

SAAS are paying part of my fees as I am post grad, I have just finalised my financial registration and payed off what I owe

However what SAAS is supposed to pay is still appearing in my future payments tab

Is this normal?

Thanks

Bro, I swear to god I got the email for picking electives TODAY, and now I'm tryna find literally any class I can do, BUT THERE'S NOTHING LEFT; every class I look at, every "available" seat is reserved. Am I just cooked, or am I just not comprehending the website?

EDIT: yeah litterally just put the classes you want to sign up for in your "my choices" section and then keep trying to enrol in them every like 30 minutes or so and eventually you get accepted in, I got into all the classes I wanted so we chillingggggggggg.

I've got a Macbook Air M5, and i was wondering if i will be fine for the undergrad mechanical engineering course. I've seen that Glasgow has a remote desktop feature which seems usefull, and also just in case I'm guessing i can use Parallels to access any windows software not available. Does anyone have any similiar experience and know if im good?

Thanks

if i have two lectures back to back in the same lecture hall can i just stay sitting or do i need to leave and come back in? just dont want to embarrass myself on the first day lol thank you

Genuinely, why?? Is it a money reason? I also don't understand why the students themselves have to organise timetables around the lecturers (when they often clash?) Surely as a lecturer, you understand majority of people in your biology class will have to take chem/science fundementals as part of their course?

I am complaining but i genuinely do want to know why its built like this (from a faculty members view as well?)

Thx :-)

Hi! Is anyone else still waiting for their registration email/details? I’m an incoming undergraduate doing English Literature/History, and I firmed Glasgow and have been receiving their other emails normally. I’ve also submitted my UKVI share code.

I’ve seen some people say they’ve already received their registration details, but I still haven’t got anything, even though I’m getting other new-student emails. Just wondering if anyone else is still waiting or if anyone knows when they’re sending them out?

Hello Everyone,

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for confirmation, I can send you the accommodation email to make sure it is available and this is not a scam!!!

I’m studying philosophy and i’ve also enrolled in theology and religious studies but my third subject is the issue. Almost everything available is coming up as reserved for students who have it as a mandatory subject. I’ve tried: Politics, Sociology, Public and social policy, Economics, Classics, Liberal Arts, History and sociology. The only one i’ve got to work is Intro to creative industries and practices which i do not want to do. Will the other subjects become available once all the mandatory students have enrolled? My friend who is doing english lit managed to enrol in classics but it’s not available for me.

Hi I'm a joining student and registration has just opened today but I still haven't received by AAN (student account login) email does anyone know if that's normal or should I be worried?

Hi guys, I’m going into first year for computing science. I’m trying to enrol right now, and I’ve selected all my comp sci classes for first year. But for some reason every time I try to enrol for Mathematics 1 (recommended for comp sci and also just a course I really want to take) it says there’s a time conflict between its lecture and Computing Science 1F’s lecture. This confuses me because surely the two should be compatible?

It’s not made easier by the fact that there are 613 (SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN) bloody options for Mathematics 1, apparently because there’s an individual option for every combination of lab and tutorial. So I don’t know, maybe one of these 613 options wouldn’t pose a conflict? But I’m not about to check all of them…

And regardless, the conflict is between the lectures, which don’t change for any of the options as far as I can see.

Can anybody help me enrol in both courses??

Edit: oh yeah, and every single option for Mathematics 1 purports to only have 23 seats left with 23 reserved. Which I would assume means there’s no spaces left, except the system has no problems with me adding it to my options?? I don’t understanddd

I’m confused at how the enrolment process works for postgraduates. It only gives me the option to enrol onto seminars, does this mean lectures will automatically be added into the timetable? Also it’s not allowing me to enrol onto the dissertation module, I’m so confused.