Universities just outside london

Hello, I am looking for Universities that are on the outskirts of London such as Royal Holloway since I wanted to live at home. I live in South London and will be driving so any Universities with a travel time of 1-1 1/2 hours would be fine.
Thank you

Reply 1

lilza

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Original post by gilberta

Hello, I am looking for Universities that are on the outskirts of London such as Royal Holloway since I wanted to live at home. I live in South London and will be driving so any Universities with a travel time of 1-1 1/2 hours would be fine.
Thank you

What about Kent or Surrey?

Brunel or Kingston

How about University of Oxford?

Reply 4

Piledriver

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Aside from those mentioned above: St Margrets also Winchester is a bit further afield but still an 1-1.15 hr drive from South London

Reply 5

bookworm246love

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royal holloway, kingston, roehampton, kent and surrey maybe :smile:

Reply 6

thecatwithnohat

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Brunel, Reading and Loughborough perhaps?

Reply 7

the artful lounger

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Southampton's maybe a smidge farther (about half an hour on from Winchester), but I know a couple mature students who commuted from London for at least first year there.

Reply 8

daryZ

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Just of an interest - what is the point to live in London but study elsewhere?

Reply 9

jelly1000

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Original post by gilberta

Hello, I am looking for Universities that are on the outskirts of London such as Royal Holloway since I wanted to live at home. I live in South London and will be driving so any Universities with a travel time of 1-1 1/2 hours would be fine.
Thank you

Assuming you don't have a disibility before you set your heart on driving to university you need to look at the parking situation- not all universities have provision for students to park on campus and those that do often have restrictions on who can park there. Also do consider doing 3 hours of driving a day could be exhausting after a while.

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Reply 10

jelly1000

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Original post by daryZ

Just of an interest - what is the point to live in London but study elsewhere?

I'm assuming the OP doesn't want to move away from home and the thing with most London unis is they are either really competitive to get into like LSE, UCL e.c.t or pretty naff like London Met, UEL, Middlesex. Not a lot of inbetween choice.

Reply 11

gilberta

OP

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Original post by jelly1000

I'm assuming the OP doesn't want to move away from home and the thing with most London unis is they are either really competitive to get into like LSE, UCL e.c.t or pretty naff like London Met, UEL, Middlesex. Not a lot of inbetween choice.

Yep, that's exactly it. The thing with unis here in London is that they are either really competitive or really rubbish so I'm looking if there is any universities that are just about outside of London.

Reply 12

gilberta

OP

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Thanks a lot for the replies. I'll look into each of these universities 😁

Reply 13

gilberta

OP

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Original post by Little Toy Gun

How about University of Oxford?

I doubt I'll get into Oxford lol

Reply 14

kkboyk

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One uni not mentioned is Reading

Reply 15

El Salvador

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Original post by gilberta

I doubt I'll get into Oxford lol

There's always Oxford Brookes University.

Reply 16

Paladian

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Greenwich some courses are just on the outskirts of London.

Reply 17

Iqbal007

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Original post by gilberta

Hello, I am looking for Universities that are on the outskirts of London such as Royal Holloway since I wanted to live at home. I live in South London and will be driving so any Universities with a travel time of 1-1 1/2 hours would be fine.
Thank you

Depends on the course you want to do, your grades, etc