Ah I'm sorry I meant Exeter Uni accommodation. Most universities do though for instance when I was at Manchester the deposit was £150. Exeter's deposit is quite high altho in most cases you'll get it back. For instance my friend was not fined at all for denting his wall in the reasonably new Holland hall and our flat went through 3 fridge freezers without any charges
We all got our deposits back - when we payed our accommodation charges we took £100 off the bill, to get part of out deposit back =] I also took like £70 off from my bursary =]