Student Experience Survey 2017: the best UK universities for accommodation

By Anonymous (not verified), 23 March, 2017

View the overall results of the 2017 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 15,000 students the extent to which they agreed that their university offered “good accommodation”. Harper Adams University came out on top, closely followed by Lancaster and Loughborough.

The full results for this accommodation category are below.

Rank	University name	Accommodation composite
1	Harper Adams University	85.3
2	Lancaster University	84.6
3	Loughborough University	84.3
4	University of Sheffield	83.4
5	Edge Hill University	82.6
6	University of Reading	81.5
7	University of Cambridge	81.0
8	St George’s, University of London	80.9
9	University of Oxford	80.6
10	University of Surrey	80.5
11	University of Leeds	80.2
12	University of Exeter	80.0
13	Falmouth University	79.7
14	Bangor University	79.3
15	University of Warwick	79.0
16	Royal Veterinary College	78.6
17	University of Birmingham	78.0
18	Brunel University London	77.8
19	University of East Anglia (UEA)	77.6
20	University of York	77.5
21	University of Nottingham	77.5
22	University of Southampton	77.2
23	Aston University	76.8
24	Newcastle University	76.7
25	University of Dundee	76.2
26	Heriot-Watt University	76.2
27	Bournemouth University	75.9
28	University of Lincoln	75.9
29	Northumbria University	75.7
30	Sheffield Hallam University	75.4
31	Royal Holloway, University of London	75.2
32	University of Winchester	75.2
33	Durham University	74.8
34	University of Bath	74.5
35	Aberystwyth University	74.4
36	Trent University	74.1
37	Queen’s University Belfast	74.1
38	Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh	73.8
39	University of Hull	73.6
40	University of Chester	73.5
41	Liverpool Hope University	73.4
42	Coventry University	73.3
43	University of Kent	73.2
44	Imperial College London	73.1
45	Cardiff University	73.1
46	University of Sussex	72.8
47	University of Leicester	72.4
48	University of Bristol	72.2
49	Leeds Beckett University	72.1
50	University of Hertfordshire	72.0
51	University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE)	71.9
52	University of Derby	71.4
53	Swansea University	71.4
54	University of Bradford	71.3
55	University of Liverpool	71.2
56	Bath Spa University	71.2
57	Canterbury Christ Church University	71.1
58	Cardiff Metropolitan University	71.0
59	University of Worcester	70.7
60	University of Edinburgh	70.6
61	University of Central Lancashire	70.2
62	Ulster University	70.1
63	University Campus Suffolk	69.8
64	Liverpool John Moores University	69.7
65	University of Essex	69.5
66	Plymouth University	69.3
67	Keele University	69.1
68	De Montfort University	68.8
69	University of Portsmouth	68.8
70	Oxford Brookes University	68.8
71	University of Huddersfield	68.4
72	York St John University	68.4
73	University of South Wales	68.4
74	University of Roehampton	68.1
75	Edinburgh Napier University	67.8
76	Arts University Bournemouth	67.0
77	Abertay University	66.9
78	University of Cumbria	66.7
79	University of Gloucestershire	66.4
80	University of Manchester	66.3
81	University of Strathclyde	66.3
82	Queen Mary University of London	66.1
83	University of Salford	66.1
84	King’s College London	65.9
85	Robert Gordon University	65.3
86	University of St Andrews	64.8
87	Buckinghamshire New University	64.5
88	Manchester Metropolitan University	64.3
89	Anglia Ruskin University	64.2
90	University of Glasgow	64.1
91	University of Bedfordshire	63.8
92	University of West London	63.7
93	Southampton Solent University	63.3
94	University of East London	63.3
95	University of Sunderland	63.2
96	University of Greenwich	63.0
97	Birmingham City University	62.5
97	London School of Economics and Political Science	62.5
99	Teesside University	62.5
100	University of Stirling	61.5
101	University of Wolverhampton	61.0
102	University of Aberdeen	60.9
103	Kingston University	60.7
104	University of the West of Scotland	59.8
105	University of Westminster	59.6
106	Goldsmiths, University of London	59.5
107	Norwich University of the Arts	59.2
108	University of Wales Trinity Saint David	59.1
109	Middlesex University	58.7
110	University of Brighton	58.3
111	Glasgow Caledonian University	58.3
112	Staffordshire University	57.8
112	University of Northampton	57.8
114	University for the Creative Arts	57.5
115	London South Bank University	57.4
116	University of the Arts London	57.0
117	City, University of London	54.7
118	Newman University	53.9
119	University College London (UCL)	53.1
120	Soas, University of London	51.8
121	The Open University	50.6
122	London Metropolitan University	48.9