- Percentage of First Year Students in Halls:
- Students from outside Edinburgh area: 100%
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- Accommodation Details:
- All those from outside the Edinburgh area can get accommodation. In reality, most first years can get it even if they are from Edinburgh. After the first year most people move out to local private accommodation, but just over a fifth of other years apply to stay.
All in all the Halls are unexciting, and the rooms tend to be small concrete copies of each other. However, as fresher's spend so little time in their rooms, this does not seem to be a problem. There will be soon be new halls with internet access.
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- Accommodation Prices:
- University Owned
Catered: £45 - £75 pw. 34 weeks.
Self-catered: £46 - £54 pw. 38 weeks.
Private
It all depends where you live, but accommodation can be rented for around £55 per week
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- Local Area:
- The University is situated on a large 380 acre campus about 7 miles from Edinburgh. The campus itself is very beautiful, with trees just about everywhere. There are also some well kept gardens and an artificial loch, which becomes really busy during the summer with students, and other wildlife, sunbathing. The campus is still growing and much of the investment going into the univeristy is to build other departments/research centres and increase the size of those that already exist.
Whether or not you like the local area depends on how partial you are to countryside. The university is hardly the Highlands, and Edinburgh is within easy access, but city people will get bored. To combat this many students go into Edinburgh and return late (or early, depending on how you see it) on the night bus. For more information on Edinburgh, see the University of Edinburgh guide)
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