Student Experience Survey 2018: best UK universities for accommodation

The best universities in the UK for accommodation – as decided by current students – have been revealed

Student life

March 22 2018

Student Experience Survey 2018: best universities for accommodation

View the overall results of the 2018 Student Experience Survey

Choosing the right university and the right course are at the top of many students’ lists when they are contemplating where to study. But what if you arrive at your chosen college and end up in a pokey room with no space to actually get any studying done?

As part of the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey, we asked more than 20,000 students the extent to which they agreed that their university offered “good accommodation”. Harper Adams 51��Ƶ took the top three positions for having the best accommodation.

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The best UK universities for accommodation 2018

Rank	51��Ƶ name	Good accommodation score
1	Lancaster 51��Ƶ	86.1
2	Loughborough 51��Ƶ	83.6
3	Harper Adams 51��Ƶ	83.1
4	Edge Hill 51��Ƶ	82.9
5	51��Ƶ of Sheffield	82.8
6	Bangor 51��Ƶ	82.2
7	51��Ƶ of Exeter	81.2
=8	51��Ƶ of Leeds	80.0
=8	51��Ƶ of Cambridge	80.0
10	Aberystwyth 51��Ƶ	79.3
11	51��Ƶ of Southampton	78.9
12	51��Ƶ of Bath	78.5
13	51��Ƶ of Reading	78.4
14	51��Ƶ of Oxford	78.0
15	51��Ƶ of Winchester	77.9
16	51��Ƶ of Lincoln	77.7
17	51��Ƶ of Birmingham	77.4
18	51��Ƶ of Surrey	77.3
19	St George's, 51��Ƶ of London	77.2
20	51��Ƶ of Warwick	77.0
=21	Royal Veterinary College	76.7
=21	Aston 51��Ƶ	76.7
23	Newcastle 51��Ƶ	76.5
24	51��Ƶ of Nottingham	76.4
25	Royal Holloway, 51��Ƶ of London	76.3
26	Sheffield Hallam 51��Ƶ	76.0
27	Bournemouth 51��Ƶ	75.7
=28	51��Ƶ of York	75.3
=28	Durham 51��Ƶ	75.3
=28	51��Ƶ of Hertfordshire	75.3
31	Falmouth 51��Ƶ	75.1
32	51��Ƶ of East Anglia (UEA)	75.0
33	51��Ƶ of Dundee	74.8
34	Trent 51��Ƶ	74.7
35	Imperial College London	74.6
36	51��Ƶ of Kent	74.5
37	Swansea 51��Ƶ	74.0
38	51��Ƶ of Liverpool	73.9
39	51��Ƶ of Chichester	73.4
40	York St John 51��Ƶ	73.3
41	De Montfort 51��Ƶ	73.0
42	51��Ƶ of Edinburgh	72.7
43	51��Ƶ of Sussex	72.6
44	Heriot-Watt 51��Ƶ	72.0
45	51��Ƶ of South Wales	71.7
46	Oxford Brookes 51��Ƶ	71.6
47	51��Ƶ of Worcester	71.4
=48	51��Ƶ of Bristol	71.3
=48	51��Ƶ of Bradford	71.3
=50	Northumbria 51��Ƶ	71.0
=50	Plymouth 51��Ƶ	71.0
52	Cardiff 51��Ƶ	70.9
=53	51��Ƶ of Hull	70.7
=53	Canterbury Christ Church 51��Ƶ	70.7
=53	51��Ƶ of Salford	70.7
=53	Liverpool John Moores 51��Ƶ	70.7
=57	51��Ƶ of Chester	70.6
=57	51��Ƶ of Leicester	70.6
59	51��Ƶ of the West of England, Bristol (UWE)	70.4
60	Queen's 51��Ƶ Belfast	70.3
61	51��Ƶ of Essex	70.2
62	51��Ƶ of St Andrews	70.1
63	51��Ƶ of Derby	69.7
=64	Buckinghamshire New 51��Ƶ	69.3
=64	Brunel 51��Ƶ London	69.3
66	Manchester Metropolitan 51��Ƶ	69.0
67	51��Ƶ of Strathclyde	68.9
68	51��Ƶ of Huddersfield	68.8
=69	Southampton Solent 51��Ƶ	68.7
=69	Leeds Beckett 51��Ƶ	68.7
71	51��Ƶ of Central Lancashire	68.5
72	Bath Spa 51��Ƶ	68.3
73	Coventry 51��Ƶ	68.2
74	Robert Gordon 51��Ƶ	68.1
=75	51��Ƶ of Manchester	67.7
=75	London School of Economics and Political Science	67.7
=77	Staffordshire 51��Ƶ	67.0
=77	Birkbeck, 51��Ƶ of London	67.0
79	51��Ƶ of Gloucestershire	66.5
80	King's College London	66.4
81	Teesside 51��Ƶ	66.2
=82	51��Ƶ of Portsmouth	65.8
=82	Queen Mary 51��Ƶ of London	65.8
84	51��Ƶ of Cumbria	65.6
85	Birmingham City 51��Ƶ	65.4
86	Edinburgh Napier 51��Ƶ	65.1
87	51��Ƶ of Glasgow	64.8
88	51��Ƶ of East London	64.7
89	London Metropolitan 51��Ƶ	64.1
90	51��Ƶ of Sunderland	64.0
91	Ulster 51��Ƶ	63.7
=92	Keele 51��Ƶ	63.3
=92	51��Ƶ of the Arts London	63.3
94	Cardiff Metropolitan 51��Ƶ	63.2
95	51��Ƶ of Roehampton	63.1
=96	51��Ƶ of Stirling	62.8
=96	Norwich 51��Ƶ of the Arts	62.8
98	51��Ƶ of Aberdeen	62.7
99	51��Ƶ of the West of Scotland	62.4
100	City, 51��Ƶ of London	62.0
101	Middlesex 51��Ƶ	61.9
102	Anglia Ruskin 51��Ƶ	61.7
=103	51��Ƶ of Northampton	61.6
=103	51��Ƶ of Greenwich	61.6
105	Kingston 51��Ƶ	61.4
=106	Glasgow Caledonian 51��Ƶ	61.1
=106	London South Bank 51��Ƶ	61.1
=108	51��Ƶ of Westminster	60.8
=108	51��Ƶ of Bedfordshire	60.8
=110	51��Ƶ of Wales Trinity Saint David	60.7
=110	51��Ƶ of West London	60.7
112	51��Ƶ of Brighton	60.2
113	UCL	59.6
114	Goldsmiths, 51��Ƶ of London	58.5
115	51��Ƶ of Wolverhampton	57.6
116	51��Ƶ of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)	56.9