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One of the best universities in the UK. Has amazing teaching staff and a vast campus with a lot of great resources.
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Lancaster University Hall Rankings
| Luneside | #1 |
| St Leonard's House | #2 |
| Grizedale College | #3 |
| Cable Street | #4 |
| Furness College | #5 |
| Fylde College | #6 |
| County College | #7 |
| Bowland College | #8 |
| Pendle College | #9 |
| Lonsdale College | #10 |
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One of the best universities in the UK. Has amazing teaching staff and a vast campus with a lot of great resources.
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176-191 UCAS Points
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Lancaster University Reputation
Lancaster University is a campus university just outside of the city of Lancaster, in the county of Lancashire in North West England. 17,770 students are enrolled at Lancaster University:
- 12,530 of these students come from the UK
- 1,315 come from EU countries
- And 3,930 are students from non-EU countries.
(Source: HESA 2021/22)
The graduate outcomes for Lancaster University show that six months after leaving university, 72% of graduates are in work or further study. The typical graduate salary six months after leaving Lancaster University is £21-24k a year.
(Source: HESA Graduate Outcomes Data Survey 2017/18)
Updated: 13th February 2023
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Good university with great facilities in all areas
A good uni, that suffer with lack of organisation and the ability to support it's students fully. Sub-par experience with them during covid times.
Good university but the student Union lets it down
One of the best universities in the UK. Has amazing teaching staff and a vast campus with a lot of great resources.
Very good, enjoy it very much it is enjoyable
It’s alright. Would come back again. Good community
Great experience so far wifi sometimes not good
Very good university, good facilities
I love this university, if you prefer quieter, safer towns, with somewhat of a nightlife. Then you’ll like it here.
I have really enjoyed my time at Lancaster Uni
My department faculty is wonderful!
Good campus with good facilities. Library is excellent and has many study spaces, sometimes too busy. Campus gym is too busy at all times and discouraging to go to. Unhelpful staff with lack of care for students.
overall i’ve really enjoyed me time at the uni. i do wish they spent more time telling us about jobs rather than just post grad training
Love the campus! So much available for you
Great infrastructure. Thou, not value for money.
Excellent uni with plenty of support
Lancaster is a good university. My professors are very helpful when I have approached them with questions about my work, and modules are quite varied. I can't speak much for the facilities at campus, as I never lived on campus and only go for my classes. However, the market held regularly brings something unique and interesting to campus and is fun to visit.
love the university it has a great campus and library
Would recommend this university
Great university with an amazing career service.
Lancaster University is excellent.
University Academy 92. Very unique.
Good fun, better living in town than on campus.
So far the experience has been mostly good, the student union is terrible; they will turn a blind eye to racism and do f’ck all.
Very happy at the univeristy. Only issue is lack of office space for students
Make sure you are not treated worse due to the country you come from. Do it for yourself and for others.
Honestly lancaster as a campus goes above and beyond the only negative being a slightly small town however the uni really makes the most of it and a smaller town along with the collegiate means you see everyone you know and it’s easier to make mates
Amazing facilities and very friendly and supportive faculty members.
A welcoming campus university. The staff are friendly and helpful.
Great uni with loads to offer and get involved with.
Lancaster is a great place to study. People are nice, variety of societies.
Excellent facilities and staff with amazing career service post graduation. Internet can cut out at random spots on campus (usually during busy class hours) but it is very fast and mostly works. Student union is alright.
Teaching is usually pretty awesome, campus is very nice, plenty of socialising to be done with societies and what not. Not the best for clubbing if that's a big thing for you.
Now that everything is open Campus is an amazing place to be and does not really have anything to improve on, clubs and societies are about as good as you can get for an university of this size. The union does the basics but other bodies often fill the role of what you’d expect from a typical SU.
Amazing university. I can definitely recommend. I really enjoyed my lectures and felt like I learned a lot.
Great university and great location. I was an undergrad here and then a few years after graduation chose to study my PhD at Lancaster also as I felt it was the best place for me. The management school is fantastic for learning and also always happy to help for anyone who is struggling with any aspect of the course. The campus is fantastic, and often you will feel like you do not need to leave because everything is here, however, if you do then Lancaster city centre is a lovely place to visit and has all the shops, bars, restaurants, etc. that you need.
As an English Literature and Creative Writing student, I feel like my department cares a lot about my experience and I am really grateful that I get to connect with tutors and staff that genuinely are there for me and who are also very inspiring to talk to. I love the greenery surrounding campus, and I feel very safe with the people I get to meet. I feel confident here when making new friends and I feel that there's support in every corner no matter what kind of hardships I go through- there is always someone to turn to!
Sometimes good sometimes s***. ((Depends on your department massively, physics are wonderful))
Really good university, highly recommend it
do not expect anything and you won’t be disappointed.
Great support and great staff at the University
Discriminatory. I’m a foreigner, and I feel I have been repeatedly discriminated against in my exchanges with the Graduate College Accommodation office.
The staffs and lecturers are good, they try their best to deliver best lectures especially during Covud-19
Good university, let down by a minority number of staff. Students Union often fails to represent students
University is good, SU don't do anything of any importance
Staff and departments have been really attentive and supportive throughout the last 3 years
The Lancaster uni is not bad. There is a spar on campus which can let people buy daily necessities.
A great engineering department with a strong research team and great technical facilities
An all round good uni, wifi could be better though
Helps me a lot, the environment is nice, the staff is friendly, and the mail is answered quickly. Public facilities are available.
Have a so nice and fun experience
Wonderful staff and facilities. Incredibly helpful with everything going on during the pandemic especially in times of isolation they provide an incredible service and support.
Fabulous service. Staff are very friendly and helpful. Excellent facilities
Very nice campus uni with lots of nature nearby
Great for the course, would recommend
Joining Bailrigg FM in my second year and then getting involved with the exec in my third was the best thing I ever did at Lancaster.
Love the university! Library is brilliant, the campus is beautiful with lots of ducks and green spaces (not including the vast number of sports fields too!), and each college feels like a second-home, with an awesome sense of belonging and pride.
Great uni. The University is constantly improving their campus faculties
Generally fine. The workload can be really heavy when assessment is coming, but it's OK as study is essentially not easy.
My experience in Lancaster University has been great.
Wonderful campus, helpful staff.
Happy to be here. Lancaster has a good public transportation system which connected with town and uni itself.
I visited St Leonard's House during the pandemic. The whole St. Leonard's team was super polite, nice and accommodating. They took care of each and every tenant. Also, special health measures were arranged to protect us from Covid-19. I felt safe and understood at all times. Furthermore, Nicky and Bonnie have been extremely helpful and I am very grateful. I can only recommend the St. Leonards to others.
The year ran fairly smoothly considering the pandemic
Going to Lancaster university was one of the best things I decided to do. The campus life is worth the experience and I love every bit of it
Some things about the uni are great like the gym and accommodation. Careers team is great. The nightlife is awfully dead , societies are poorly funded and managed by the SU. The collage system is only really relevant if you play sports, for most people the collage system doesnt really do anything. Saying all that very international but if your looking for a good uni experience do not come here, very dull overall.
very modern, classy fun accommodation best around! kindest manager and very inviting! a must!
Lancaster is not bad when it comes to rankings, and the campus is outstanding.
Great University. Amazing campus.
This uni ticks the boxes as well as any; good lecturing, good social life. Campus can feel like a bubble, students union can be overworked, scale of the uni makes things move slowly, but still a good place to spend 3-4 years.
It's good but not amazing. Some of the teaching and facilities felt very average for a 'top 10 uni'.
better for students to social but the living environment is not good cuz the facilities are old andliving in campus is not that convince for students to purchase daily using
Lancaster University is one of the top ranking universities in the world. The learning facilities are very excellent.
I am currently not living in the university's accommodation.
Amazing careers team and services. If you are going to university to get a career in a respectable industry, Lancaster University is definitely for you.
Lancaster university is a great university to both study and socialise just outside the city centre
Great Uni, just what I expected. Can't wait until we go back!!
Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else for my undergrad. The college system is truly unique and amazing. The best course I could have ever been on. No problems with internet. College sport is amazing. Class
It is the best place for the best students, nothing less.
I had such a lovely time at Lancaster. The students and staff were very nice and down to earth. I made very good friends there. The campus is fantastic, loads of space and so fun to explore, with good food and drink but also great study areas. The library is really lovely and convenient too. My course was well organised and interesting (physics) and support from lecturers is really good. My favourite thing about Lancaster is the proximity to the Lake District and I spent many happy weekends there with my friends, hiking, swimming and messing around. There are lots of nice areas round Lancaster too (forest of bowland, Lancaster canal, crook o' the lune, glasson dock. I liked Morecambe too! If you have a bike then it's really nice to explore. Living on campus is great, very convenient, comfortable, not too expensive and easy to make friends. The free bus to and from the SU nightclub is excellent if you are a cheapskate like me. There is a decent gym at the sports centre.
I am an international student did LLM International Law in Lancaster and it was a wonderful experience. I'm glad that I didn't go to another university.
Lancaster is absolutely tiny of a town with only 3 clubs and they’re all terrible Buses to town are outrageously expensive Campus shops are complete rip offs STUDENT UNION is absolutely s***, does nothing for us and charges you the have to pay 15 quid for the student discount “purple card” which just should be done with a library card for free.
Facilities are great and always being developed/improved. The Careers service provides a range of support that is well advertised. The students union makes some unpopular decisions and does not seem to be highly respected by many students.
Good wholesome tightnit uni with a great on campus society; neighbourhood and feel to the place
Awful university with zero care for their students. Poor organisation for every event. Departments couldn’t care less about student care or success.
Great campus and clearly the facilities have had investment but more prevalent issues are being ignored in favour of impressive facilities. E.g. a sports team culture that promotes bullying and cliques and certain academic departments that manage student workloads poorly in comparison to other similarly universities.
It's my first year here, doing a masters. The university made me feel very welcomed and it was easy to connect with people
Made me feel comfortable from day 1, there has not been a single day where I have been unhappy since moving to uni
We're so happy you found a place here. Thrilled to hear how happy you are :)
Amazing uni! All round great experience, and Water Witch Open Mic every Wednesday night was ace.
We're really glad you found a home here! We love the water witch too ;-)
It is a really good place. Nice accommodation. Nice learning atmosphere. It is one of the best school in United Kingdom.
Thanks for your kind words :-)
I love it here at Lancaster, it’s really made me feel at home and I couldn’t ask for a better experience.
This is so lovely, thanks so much for your feedback. We're thrilled you have had such a positive experience :-)
i dropped out of glasgow university and coming to lancaster has been the best thing for me!!
We're so glad you found your place here :-)
Lancaster University's "student well being services" gave me complex trauma that I still require therapy to even make sense of what happened to me. they are stopping renewing contracts for any non academic staff meaning a large increase in unemployed people in Lancaster is coming and all because they spent so much money on building work they can't afford to keep paying staff. If you ever have any legal based issue with the inner workings as a student better rush to a solicitor quick because you have less than 6 months to file a report or that sexual assault that happened? nah that's not real you are just delusional and experience flash backs to things that weren't even real. thanks Lancaster university you destroyed my mental health to the point where I am not fit for work.
Couldn’t have enjoyed university more. Amazing facilities, great campus and great staff
:-) Thanks for the review, we're really glad you enjoyed your time at Lancaster.
Accom is absolute s*** unless you're rich
Lancaster uni was incredibly unsupportive. 2 years of my time there the entire campus was under renovation which is still not complete, so every day we got to listen to the builders banging throughout the lectures. Lecturers often didn't turn up, seminars were badly led and no discussion was had, they were often silent and uncomfortable. Library space was like gold dust, parking spaces non existent, my Lancaster experience was awful.
We're really sorry to hear you had a difficult time at Lancaster. We're doing our best to improve library and study spaces for all students going forward.
Best University to broaden your understanding
Thanks for the feedback :)
Really inclusive atmosphere, mainly due to the colleges really taking care of their students. Highlight of each year is definitely roses! A bit of healthy competition and a whole lot of fun!!
We love our colleges and we're so glad you do too! Roses is such a highlight for us too #RosesAreRed
Lovely campus with lots of things to do. The town centre is quiet, with only a couple of clubs but lots of bars and pubs.
We're so glad you love our campus. Thanks for the feedback :-)
Couldn’t have loved my time at Lancaster anymore ♥️
Aww thanks for the feedback- we're so glad you loved Lancaster.