- Percentage of First Year Students in Halls:
- 100%
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- Accommodation Details:
- Newcastle University has a range of accommodation including catered corridor based halls and flats sharing lounge and kitchen facilities. Food in Castle Leazes and Henderson is described as dire so self-catering is preferred. There are a number of Georgian houses in Leazes Terrace which always prove popular. You are guaranteed a place in halls for the first year if you want it. The city as a whole has several good student areas, Fenham, Jesmond and Heaton are popular, try to avoid Scotswood.
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- Accommodation Prices:
- Catered - £57-65
Self-catered - £38-56
Local area - Around £40 per week.
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- Local Area:
- The regenerated Newcastle of today provides students with some of the most vibrant city living in the UK. It has the same problems of any big city and you need to expect it to be very cold and wet for a large proportion of the year but other than that you could do a great deal worse. The Bigg Market is superb for going out during the week but tends to be more for locals. Most students head for The Quayside. Although a bit more pricey, the atmosphere seems to be the key factor with bars and pubs a-plenty.
The students have a good relationship with the city's residents on the whole but, as one source put it, 'if you act like a wanker then you will get treated like one.' Plenty of people make snooty comments about Newcastle but these now seem out of date and out of place. A large and diverse student population intergrates well with the local community and Newcastle certainly suffers less than other city universities when it comes to trouble.
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