The "Ask a Durham Student" Thread :)

Does anyone know the policy about visiting/staying/eating in other colleges? My twin is going to St. Mary's and I'm at Grey, which we're fine with, but we were wondering about permission to sleep over/ visit each other. Anyone from Grey or St Mary's, or just knows the policy?

Okay so I just applied to combined in arts, but listed English, Spanish, and IR for what I'm looking to study--even though IR technically isn't part of combined arts list, it's part of the combined social sciences list... BUT the website says you can take up to 1/2 your classes outside the arts. Should I call to have Durham change the dept's I'm applying to? Does this look like I can't follow directions?

Can anyone tell me what St Aiden's, Collingwood, and Van Mildert are like? I want a more personal student opinion, not what the uni put on the website. Also, what's it like being in a really big college, like Collingwood? Thanks

Hey, I'm at Aidan's, so I'm obviously a bit biased towards it! Aidan's has a bit of a reputation of being the 'party' college, however it is now less of that and is better known as, in very cliched terms, the 'rainbow college' due to its wide diverse student population. I love Aidan's, it has one of the most active JCR's, and as pretty much everyone lives in the same building everyone gets to know each other really quickly and well. It's a nice size I feel - I found my group of close friends within the first 3 days of being there! There's a great sense of community, lots of activities, awesome events (lots of formals with cool fancy dress themes) and good facilities. A number of people do have to share rooms, however it is a very thorough to match people up before they get their so most people end up best mates with their room mate. But the rooms are some of the best I've seen in Durham.

I can't really comment on Mildert or Collingwood - I didn't like the room layout at Mildert and I'd personally prefer a smaller college than Collingwood but pretty much everyone who goes to any college will always say their own is the best!

If you have any questions just ask!

Hey, thanks for your reply! I've decided to apply for St Aidan's, yay! It sounds really interesting and I like the sound of the fancy dress formals and the creative writing workshop, do they still do that? It just sounds like it will be really fun! Thank you so much for you reply

Yo, I do Combined Arts & also do languages & IR modules. It doesn't matter at all, it's the same thing basically. Lots of people do combos like History & Politics or Philosophy, of Politics + a language etc. which are fairly standard offers around the country, but Durham in its infinite wisdom doesn't do. So you just go as Combined Arts/SS depending on which branch you do most of your modules in.

The application goes to the Combined Hons office and is dealt with by them, rather than just by the departments you'd be looking at studying modules in, I think.

But in short, no, it doesn't matter, and no, you don't need to worry about contacting them to change or anything. They will let you do pretty much any combination at all, as long as you can justify in your personal statement why you want to do that combo. If you've got any other questions on Combined or languages or IR, fire away

Hi everyone,

I'm applying for Business & Management at Durham for the coming September!
I love the colleges in Durham campus, however the course I chose is based in Queens
So, I don't know which college to choose, John Snow or Stephenson? What are the differences actually?
I'm an international students so probably I'll be living in the residence for at least a year
I love doing sports so much and I would like to try rowing the boat hehe, so can anyone tell me more about each of the college and give me some advice on which to choose?

Thanks!!!

I've applied to the BSc. Health and Human Sciences last October 4.

I still haven't heard anything. How long will I wait for anything?


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Hi there I have some question to ask you and I thank you in advance.

1. Is true that applications to scientific degrees are processed before the others?

2. Is the number of EU students (as me) and non-EU students pre-determined? Do international students have the same possibilities to receive an offer?


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has anyone had any offers yet?

Do you have a better chance of getting a place at your preferred college if you firm your offer early? And are the majority of firmers placed at their chosen college?

Applicants who accept Durham University as their firm choice and who meet the exact terms of their offer will be guaranteed the college that they were originally allocated to

Do you have a better chance of getting a place at your preferred college if you firm your offer early? And are the majority of firmers placed at their chosen college?

I know that there is a post about the UMS scores for Maths, but there hasn't been a response on it for a month so I was hoping someone here would have an answer. When you have filled in the form for Durham about you Maths and Further Maths UMS marks and sent it, do you get an email letting you know that they have received it? I filled it out but I want to make sure that they got it.