Open days

I attended quite a few open days before settling on my university, one of which was at the University of Bedfordshire. I visited the labs which had all the previous students displayed on all of the monitors. There where lecturers and demonstrators on hand to showcase and to answer any questions that we had about the course.  

I already had some questions ready for when I visited, I think I got a wrong look on the course when visiting on the open day. What I mean by this is that the content and things they showed me on the open days where exactly the type of things I wanted to do, but when actually studying and doing the course I came across things I wasn't expecting, and which were not in the prospectus or mentioned in the open days itself.

Render I did, it's similar to what open days are like (stats on screen)

If possible talking to ex-students of the university - or even talk to third year - to get a better overview of the course. Just to give an example of this: on the universities website its bullet pointed on each topic which will be viewed. One of those was “programming” and the other was “video editing”.  Actually studying the course so far, all of my assignments, lectures and seminars are 50% programming or scripting related, whereas we've had one 4-hour lesson on video editing. It’s not saying that the prospectus and open days are wrong, it’s just you might get the wrong impression of what the course is actually about.

I'm currently looking for places to study my Msc. I'm attending quite a few open days again and I'm already starting to narrow down my choices in universities. I'll attend an open day at all those universities and will have some questions ready to ask the students/professors present.