Hertsfordshire University is divided into four separate campus sites, and the site on which you study depends which faculty you belong to. It therefore follows that your accomodation will depend upon what you study. There are halls of residence on three out of four of the sites, there is none on St. Albans site, so you'd have to travel in from elsewhere. The news on accomodation isn't too good, pretty dismal in fact, but here are the sites you'd be looking at....
Hatfield
This is the main University site and is the home of five faculties; Art and Design, Engineering and Information Sciences, Health and Human Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. There are library and computing resources, as well as sports and social facilities. The site is two miles from Hatfield station, which is 25 minutes jouney from Kings Cross.
Hertford
This is the specialist business school site, with a medical centre, club house, drama studio and sports facilities. Hooray! There are two stations in Hertford, with links to Kings Cross, Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations.
St. Albans
This campus is a city centre location and is the home of the faculty of Law. It has its own extensive specialist library and a court room. It sits in the heart of a legal community, near to the crown and county courts as well as the crown prosecution service, barristers chambers and numerous solicitors firms. It is well connected for transport facilities, and the service to Kings Cross takes just 18 minutes.
Watford
This campus is set in elegant parkland, which seems suitable for the faculties of Humanities, Language and Education. The main building is an 18th century mansion and the gardens surrounding the area were designed by Humphrey Repton; a famous landscape gardener. Again there are good connections into London and, being only two miles outside of Watford town centre, cinemas, theatre, shopping and good sporting facilities are only about a 30 minute walk or a short bus ride away. Watford also doubled as Hamburg in Bond film Tommorrow Never Dies for the car park chase scene. Yes I could see that.
When the new de Haviland Campus opens in 2003 there will be 1600 brand spanking new en-suite rooms ready for the students. Whether these will be ridiclously expensive remains to be seen.
