Quieter, smaller universities

Which locations of universities are somewhat quieter than the norm? I can't really handle major, bustling, noisy cities and I'm generally just interested in places that are a bit calmer. Any ideas?

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Reply 1

L i b

In Scotland - St Andrews and Stirling would probably best fit that bill.

If you look up the threads on campus unis that'll probably give you an idea of some more secluded ones.

Reply 2

tbtommyb

Some of the Scottish ones? St. Andrews seems to be in a quiet town, but I don't know how big the actual university is.

Reply 3

Lou_

St Andrews is small and only has 5780 undergrad students compared to 15,486 at Glasgow and 11,119 at Oxford.

Reply 4

Catsmeat

Lampeter (Ceredigion, Wales) is - I believe - the smallest University in the UK. It has around 1000 undergraduates and postgraduates and is very small and very quiet. It's an old theological college in the hills - very secluded and pretty.

Swansea is - if you do require the need of a Metrop' - around an hour and a half away as far as I understand it. Small enough for you?

Reply 5

67382

York I think only has 10,000 students.

Reply 6

Angelil

Exeter has about 12,000 students but it sure doesn't feel that way - and the city itself is smaller than average for a city as well.

Not that I'm biased or anything :wink:

Reply 7

Tomber

Keele springs to mind, never been there mind. Lancaster I have been to and is nice

Reply 8

Cool Cat

Tomber

Keele springs to mind, never been there mind. Lancaster I have been to and is nice

Totally agree. I've been at uni in Lancaster since September and I love living there, the city is nice, not too big and not too small and it's generally quite quiet :smile:

Reply 9

Straggler

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Reply 10

TSR Community Staff

Alex_K

York I think only has 10,000 students.

Yeah, York is a good place if you want small, but not so small that there is nothing to do.

You get enough people there to have a wide mix. The city is also small enough for you to find your way around easily without feeling like you are in this massive place, but there is a lot packed into it for you to find out and do.

Reply 11

mtbab

yeh York,
Keele,
Lancaster,
Aberystwyth would be a good one.
Bangor, just in general the welsh ones, bar cardiff.
Lincoln maybe.
Worcester too.

Reply 12

wilbur

Lampeter, York, St. Andrew's?

How about Cambridge? It's a small city, and fairly tranquil most of the time (more so than Oxford I would have thought, anyway).

Reply 13

supernova2

Based on postgrad, undergrad and HND students.

76 University of Northampton Northampton 9,918
77 Oxford Brookes University Oxford 9,282
78 University of Sunderland Sunderland 9,156
79 University of the Arts London London 9,124
80 University of Paisley Ayr, Dumfries 9,124
81 University of Essex Colchester 8,800
82 University of Bath Bath 8,510
83 University of Gloucestershire Cheltenham, Gloucester 8,502
84 University of Worcester Worcester 8,412
85 Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College High Wycombe 8,335
86 University of Stirling Stirling 8,332
87 Roehampton University London 8,184
88 University of York York 7,617
89 Liverpool Hope University Liverpool 7,329
90 Aston University Birmingham 7,276
91 University of Bolton Bolton 7,218
92 Keele University Newcastle-under-Lyme 6,616
93 Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Galashiels 6,365
94 University of St Andrews St Andrews 5,780
95 Bath Spa University Bath 5,217
96 University of Chester Chester, Warrington 4,907
97 University of Winchester Winchester 4,812
98 University of Abertay Dundee Dundee 4,135

Reply 14

mtbab

79 University of the Arts London London 9,124
87 Roehampton University London 8,184
89 Liverpool Hope University Liverpool 7,329
90 Aston University Birmingham 7,276
93 Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Galashiels 6,365

them ones i can see being too quiet tho, becuase of the cities they are in.

EDIT: Can't! lol

Reply 15

The Boosh

winchester could be ideal

Reply 16

Lou_

I wonder if a uni can be be too small?
If there is less students will it mean there is less money going into each subject area?

Reply 17

TSR Community Staff

Lou_

I wonder if a uni can be be too small?
If there is less students will it mean there is less money going into each subject area?

I'd say not, probably just fewer subject areas :smile:

Though money from uni to uni probably varies a great deal, I'd say the size has very little to do with the amount per pupil it has.

Reply 18

apotoftea

2600 students (under and post grad) at University of Chichester

Same sort of history that Lampeter has - old teacher training college back in the 1800s