UK university i should select due to not knowing the cities environment.

All are great cities for students so you will have a good time wherever you go. For snob reasons, Edinburgh would be considered to be the best out of the ones you listed but that is just snobbery. Do you fancy a campus uni (like Birmingham) or a uni that is integrated into the city (like Manchester).

What do you really want to study, e.g. cell biology is very different from biomedical sciences which is different from biological sciences.

Have a look on You Tube for 'tourist films' for each city, and the Open Day or Campus Tour films for each Uni.
This will give you a good idea of what everything looks like and what there is to do in each city.

Thank you so much for the helpful thread✌🏻👍🏻 I will check it out have a nice weekend!

Hi! I am an international student. I would like to ask how's the difference between these universities: (infrastructure of the cities, living cost as well as cultures.)

I actually got 4/5 offers back.
1) University of Manchester (Offer) - Biomedical Sciences
2) University of Glasgow (Offer) - Molecular & Cellular Biology
3) Newcastle University (Offer) - Biomedical Sciences
4) University of Birmingham (Offer) - Biological Sciences
5) University of Edinburgh (Have not been offered yet) - Biological Sciences

If you guys happen to live in these cities, do share more of your perspectives abt it. Thank you so much! It would be greatly appreciated.

Birmingham and Manchester are very large multi cultural cities. Glasgow is also a huge city butI dont know how multi cultural it is. Edinburgh is a smaller city and is supposed to be very nice but again I dont know how multi cultural it will be. Newcastle smaller still and isnt anywhere as near multicultural as Birmingham

They are all in the North so will be colder and wetter - Scotland has a lot of snow in the winter,

@Ervina

Unis usually provide some cost of living info on their websites:

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/student-experience/advice-support/money-advice/living-costs
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/experience/student-life/living-costs/
https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/studentlife/costofliving/
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/study/student-life/cost/
https://www.ed.ac.uk/students/finance/cost-of-living

One thing to bear in mind is the availability of accommodation at your chosen uni (for all years of your degree). Manchester and Edinburgh both featured in the press last year due to a shortage of student accommodation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63206999
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-62765142

Thank you for the information! Haha, my country has only one season, And it's super hot!!!

Thank you for the information! Haha, my country has only one season, And it's super hot!!!

I'm surprised you did not look at more southerly unis!

Glasgow and Edinburgh will be the coldest followed by Newcastle, Manchester and Birmingham which will the least cold.

They are all in the North so will be colder and wetter - Scotland has a lot of snow in the winter,

Birmingham is in the Midlands. Usually Northeners say we are south and Southeners say we are North. Lol.

It is still colder than the south!

I agree with you there. Birmingham is a great city though.