Loughborough University

While Loughborough may be a fairly run-of-the-mill East Midlands market town, Loughborough University’s sporting prowess is certainly far from average...more detail They’ve won the British Universities Sports Association Championship for over twenty years in a row now and a large proportion of the students live, breathe and sweat any physical activity that involves competition or culminates in a drinking game...more on sports As well as outstanding sporting facilities, it has one of the best university physiotherapy and sports injury clinics in the country. Sporting excellence aside, Loughborough holds its own when it comes to teaching and research, offering a wide range of subjects that have nothing to do with hitting balls or torn ligaments...more on academic The campus is situated just a mile west of the town centre where it basks in leafy parkland. Almost all first years are guaranteed university accommodation, but unfortunately that can mean living in a concrete tower block...more on housing Students give something back to society by running a particularly slick Rag operation...more on the SU

Woohoo: Top of the range sports facilities and achievements to match
Boo: Poor choice for couch potatoes
Tel: (01509) 223 522
E-mail: admissions@lboro.ac.uk
Website: www.lboro.ac.uk