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  Coventry University
Percentage of First Year Students in Halls:
100%
Accommodation Details:
Priory Hall and Quadrant Hall - Both pretty much the same with Quadrant being just off campus. Accommodation here is pretty average and in massive ugly tower blocks but still fairly pricey for what it is. Catered halls with 10 meals per week, food is 'Western European' in style and by all accounts is passable.

Caradoc Halls - The lower end of the spectrum, another tower block, it isn't so appealing especially since the local area is less than welcoming for students and there's also a bus ride to campus. There are security patrols. Self-catered.

Singer Hall - Self-catering, and located on a mini-campus within the main campus. It looks nice and attracts lots of first years but corridor based catered halls are always more sociable.

Raglan - SC, privately owned, ghetto local area and very ugly.

Apollo House - SC, ugly but pretty popular with the residents, good pubs and fast food in the vicinity.

Sherbourne House - has attractive single bedrooms in a self-catering, ensuite, privately-owned and purpose-built student residence. It's within a few minutes walk of the city and the University. The building is split into flats for between four and seven. Mixed.

University managed houses - These are privately owned houses that the uni manages for the landlords. All bills are your responsibility but the uni's influence does protect you from some nastiness.

Accommodation Prices:
University Owned
Catered: £66 - £76 pw. 40 weeks.
Self-catered: £43 - £64 pw. 40 weeks.

Our advice would be to go for Priory but steer clear of twin rooms, £10 is nowhere near a resonable discount for sharing a room.

Private
Average rent: £45 per week, excluding bills - pretty good value but some duff places and areas so take care.

Local Area:
Coventry has been rebuilt in a variety of imaginative styles since it was flattened by our EU brother, Germany, in just one day's bombing during the war. Germany's efficient engineering lives on in Coventry today, but in the more permanent form of BMW Group British headquarters, together with Rolls Royce and Jaguar, which is why so many alumni are to be found designing the super-cars of the future here. Riding through the streets on a horse naked, though, will probably go down as well with the locals now, as it did with Leofric when Lady Godiva did it in days of old. Some areas are no-go and it is probably recommended that you stick to the Uni and SU bars until you aclimatise to the street wisdom of the area. Shopping, however, is very good and close to the main campus. New sports, leisure and cinema complexes are being built in the area also.
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