| Sex Ratio (M:F): 42:58 |
Full-time undergraduates: 15,890 |
| Applications per place: 7 |
Points range: 180-340 |
| Flunk rate: 15% |
Unemployed after 6mths: 6% |
| Booze Index: £1.97 |
Av. housing cost per week: £63.45 |
| Av. debt per year: £4,014 |
Access fund: £774,550 |
| Cost of living: £££ |
Glasgow’s a university with a liberal, cosmopolitan feel and these days they’re desperate to convince anyone who’ll listen that Glasgae is the Scottish Florence, which has some truth to it. The old industrial town has parks, cinemas and art galleries, though the weather is spirit-dampeningly two-tone – cold, wet, wet, cold. And cold ... more detail That said, almost half the students are locals who liked the city enough to stay on and, given the impressive pubbing, clubbing and live music on offer, who’s arguing? ... more on entertainment The University has a proud reputation, churning out inventors and politicians aplenty. Two million books may have boffins cheering, but IT facilities get a subdued ‘huh’, especially the lack of 24-hr access ... more on academic Students fare a bit better with halls, which vary from passable to plush and unsavoury to en suite ... more on housing With twelve bars over Glasgow’s multiple SUs, a plethora of societies and more newspapers than you can lob at a paperboy, the students are an active bunch ... more on the SU They’re nae skivers on the pitches either, and regularly in the uni sports top twenty ... more on sports
Woohoo: Scholarships for the talented or unfortunate
Boo: Ugly druggy crime scene in some areas of the city
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