Rural universities

Umm, just wondering, which universities are situated near a small town or away from a main city (places like Keele and Lancaster) ?

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Reply 1

Adarah

Royal Holloway? It's near Egham in Surry, but in case you want to go to London, you can just hop on the train.

Reply 2

saiyamanadingdongbanana

oooh, thanks :smile:

Ill have a look at it. know any more in the middle/north of England?

Reply 3

se77en

Reading is quite a small town.... and theres lots of countryside... really close to london as well

Reply 4

Geogger

The most rural one I know is Lampeter - about 15 miles north of Carmarthen in SW Wales

Reply 5

saiyamanadingdongbanana

Geogger

The most rural one I know is Lampeter - about 15 miles north of Carmarthen in SW Wales

Dont offer psychology :bawling:

Reply 6

Geogger

Bangor (in N Wales) is quite a small town - I did my PGCE there and lived in the middle of Anglesey

Reply 7

**R**

im not from England so im not 100% sure if il ge tthis right, but i went for interview in St.Martins College, in Carlisle. the uni is in the town, but i think it is near countryside as well, from what i could see of scenery on train. and i think Carlisle is fairly north, near Scotland, but i could be wrong , i was only there for a day and half

Reply 8

mousey

Aberystwyth maybe? I know someone who went there and he was saying it's fairly quiet, and in Wales, so obviously you're surrounded by countryside.

Royal Holloway in Surrey is gorgeous. xx

Reply 9

saiyamanadingdongbanana

Rainjan_4now

wow, you've made my day!! :smile:

Reply 10

username5154

Lincoln, Loughborough, Lancaster, Essex, East Anglia.

Reply 11

riccardo

Durham's not exactly huge

Reply 12

rainjan_4now

saiyamana

Rainjan_4now

wow, you've made my day!! :smile:

erm....no problem :biggrin:

Reply 13

Adarah

my cousin studied at Durham and described it as a beautiful castle on a hill in the middle of frigging nowhere (she didn't like it that much, she would have been better off in Lonodon - where she later moved to lol)

Reply 14

rah2

trev

Lincoln

Surely Lincoln is right in the middle of the city? :confused:

The railway runs past it!

Reply 15

AT82

rah2

Surely Lincoln is right in the middle of the city? :confused:

The railway runs past it!

Yep I always though it was a city university as well :wink:

I believe Keele is also in the countryside.

Reply 16

username5154

rah2

Surely Lincoln is right in the middle of the city? :confused:

The railway runs past it!

AT82

Yep I always though it was a city university as well :wink:

I believe Keele is also in the countryside.

I thought Lincoln was a rural place, as it's quite small on the map compared to other places on the map. :redface:

I guess you guys are right then about Lincoln being a city.

Reply 17

AT82

Lincoin is a small city but it still has a population of 85,000 so there is no way on earth it can be rural.

Reply 18

username5154

AT82

Lincoin is a small city but it still has a population of 85,000 so there is no way on earth it can be rural.

Alright then. I havn't been there before, and going there for university. I've been there to an open day, but not into the city. Do you think it's a good city (if you've been there before)? Do you think it's a good university?

Reply 19

rah2

It's very pretty, it's basically york on a smaller scale, a castle and a cathedral, pebbled streets.

Nightlifewise, there's not a lot going on, couple of clubs, few bars, some good shops as well. Not too expensive.

If you like small then you'll like it. The university is on the river that runs through the town, basically in the center.

Lincoln is nice :smile: