Town / City Centre Universities - where?

[ClumpingKate]

So I know Oxford and Cambridge, many London unis and Manchester are all city based universities with their buildings on public streets in the centre of town. Anywhere else that largely matches this description?
Failing that, am looking for campuses that are located in the central area, say less than a mile (30 mins walk) from the centre of town.

Where have I missed?

There is some green space around and Edgbaston is quite leafy, it's basically a campus in the equivalent of Hyde Park/Regent's park rather than the sticks. Very definitely best of both worlds - campus university about 10 minutes from Selfridges, and fantastic curries within staggering distance too.

Not that Selfridges was there in my day, and broad street was only just becoming club central!

Mouthy, I am equally surprised at the idea that Bristol is not hilly. It took DD a couple of years before she felt fit enough to cycle regularly, despite her bicycle being her preferred mode of transport in London.

Surprisingly there are very few Londoners on her course either. Lots from NI, Wales, the West Country and the north. Suits DD fine. I assume different courses end up with very different intakes.

I am equally surprised at the idea that Bristol is not hilly.

To be fair, once you are actually in the general area of the 'business end' of the university, the landscape is less alpine than if you were to take the wider view including the area between Temple Meads station and the university. We were on the rather decrepit double decker shuttle bus on the open day that DD attended, the clutch of which was obviously coping so poorly with the task required of it that several of us wondered if we would be asked to get out and push. We walked back down in the evening - to be fair, because DD wanted to do a trawl of charity and vintage shops and we had a couple of hours before our train, but the question of how the brakes would have dealt with the downward journey, should we have found ourselves on the same bus, did vaguely occur to me later.

There are some pretty vertiginous steps (Cantock Steps) at the top of the Bristol campus which have to closed when it is icy.

A lot of the newer student accommodation is in the City Centre. Only more affluent students can afford Clifton, which is lovely but expensive.

Newcastle’s requirements for Eng Lit are AAA-AAB though it drops to ABB with an A in EPQ.

Sorry if my last post is a bit random - I saw someone said Newcastle didn’t need that high grades for English earlier on.

Only more affluent students can afford Clifton, which is lovely but expensive.

The city centre ones - New Bridewell and whatever the other one is called are hugely expensive. C. 8k for an en-suite room and then you've got food on top.

I meant second and third years renting flats. Clifton is lovely but Bristol property prices increased sharply a few years back and many Clifton landlords sold out to developers.

Halls in Clifton are about the same price as others, but relatively small. Many first years are in Stoke Bishop which is definitely not City Centre, though several of the newer, possibly more expensive
, halls are right in the thick of it.

Huge numbers of ordinary students rent in Clifton for years two and three. There are prices to suit most students but it’s not a cheap university and most do realise what the costs will be before signing up. It’s not Newcastle or Sheffield re prices. I don’t think DD attempted hills much! No, she didn’t need the steps either! They were not near her faculty and were totally optional! It’s really best not to have accommodation in the city centre. Some isn’t university managed, some is expensive and all is near the nightlife! Clifton is in the city but a bit removed. Best of all worlds really.

There are faculties of Oxford Brooks at Headington, although some are more remote. However students in second and third years can rent houses in the city and have the massive benefits of Oxford.

Plymouth but small city

Derby is close to the city

NTU is close to Notts

Exeter is near to the centre

SOAS in London

My eldest DS pays £400 a month for a flat share in Clifton, he's had the same place in 1st and 2nd year. I guess he got lucky.

Minimum, he is lucky. DD paid £90pw last year, not Clifton, but the flat was 'basic'. £135 seems more normal.

Bubbles, from what you have posted previously, is now well into her legal career. She presumably rented in Clifton several years ago before the property price rises linked to improved rail times, took effect. In addition your daughter, from what you have previously said, was relatively affluent. Affluent enough perhaps not to need to climb Bristol hills. Even then its hard toget to, say, the sports grounds, without an invigorating walk.

She will need to find out where the actual course she is interested in is taught, Staffordshire is not all in the city centre. UCLAN has courses and accomodation in Burnley so an hour from the main site.

Wolverhampton has a Walsall campus as well as the city centre buildings.

I did a course technically at Staffordshire Uni but all classes were in Stafford.

She will need to find out where the actual course she is interested in is taught,

I think it's mainly the newer universities which are widely spread isn't it - I believe Anglia Ruskin has sites all over East Anglia (including parts which I'd not even realised were in that region!).

Chester

ARU: Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and, like a few other universities based outside the capital, London.

Medicine is based at the Chelmsford campus.

Chelmsford, although officially a city, is not exactly a bustling metropolis. Great Thai food, though.