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That same accommodation is £142 per week for the 2021-22 academic year. All tenancies cover the 44 week term so a total of £6,248.
Staggering.
Having said that, the student loan system does scare a lot of people off, disproportionately those from lower income backgrounds. That must mean that the average university goer is now significantly richer, and I wonder if they are consequently happier to pay much higher rents than students would have paid in the past.
As @Greatape says, some of it is overseas students, but from the purpose-built student blocks around here, it's certainly not only overseas students.
The place I went to when I was a student is very basic in Manchester, and is around £110-£120 a week
the ones owned by Unis only charge usually for 38 or 41 weeks, and are far more likely to give refunds than privately owned halls
Some cities have far cheaper accom, some not. First year is best done in Uni-owned halls I think
What City is it?
I know that Liverpool Uni charges a lot, Birmingham is much cheaper, Manchester in the middle
Some top London Unis have cheap accom, but presumably only for 1 year
I hope you can get the full maintenance loan
The uni in question is Norwich (NUA) which is a good 4 hours from miseryside and we cannot even visit to have a look at places at the moment, which is a shame.
We already have one child finishing uni this year, but she spent her final year at home after she transferred for her final year so no direct accommodation costs (which has been a bonus). Her accommodation in the first two years was just over 4k per year.
There does seem to be a lot of private companies and unis trying to get as much out of students as possible, which has probably always been the case just never seen it until recently.
I did think about being a really cheap bast**d and make her get the train every Monday morning and put her in a cheap B&B until Friday then she can get the train home, but the mrs seems to have put the blockers on that.
Beechcroft Accommodation | Norwich University of the Arts (nua.ac.uk)
went through that conversation here
After insisting on en suite, our daughter ended up in one with shared bathrooms, and it's been great for her