Liverpool University - Student View

Liverpool has much to offer everyone - a multitude of bars, restaurants, pubs, clubs, galleries, museums and shops cater for all tastes - and are generally cheaper and friendlier than in the rest of the country.

University is 5 minutes from the heart of the city centre, with regular buses to and from the main student areas, halls, town centre and main train station; taxis also charge reasonably.

Two main libraries both have good computing facilities and are open late. Sports centre recently extended; Athletic Union, based in the Guild of Students, is extremely active with around 50 clubs.

Courses and teaching are high standard, some of international standing; fairly diverse with traditional courses such as law, veterinary science, dentistry, medicine, english, etc complemented by rarer ones such as Irish studies and popular music.

Most first year students live in traditional halls in the leafy suburb of Mossley Hill a few miles out of town; 2nd and 30 years share one of the surplus of student houses along the main bus routes into town, or increasingly go into one of the private self-catered halls in the city centre. Liverpool Student Homes is excellent at finding students appropriate accommodation. Diverse student community with a good combination of students from all over the country, local and international students, and mature students.

Guild is run for and by students and offers everything from entertainment to advice, representation to skills training. You name it, from snowboarding to pot-holing, clubbing to juggling, theatre to fundraising, there's a club or society dedicated to it. And on the off-chance that there isn't, the Guild will help you set one up.

The entertainments programme is second to none, boasting 10 bars, the biggest and best members-only club nights in the city - Time Tunnel and Double Vision; weekly comedy nights, fortnightly cinema screenings, gigs galore in the Mountford Hall and Stanley Theatre; also runs Liverpool Academies 1, 2 & 3 (largest music venue in city). Guild shop (cut-price newspapers, stationery, snacks), optician, hairdressers, travel shop, card shop, pool room and a choice of cheap eateries.

Budding broadcasters can get involved in the radio station, 1CO1V; newshounds have the Liverpool Student, the newspaper produced jointly with the other city universities and read by 40,000 students. Guild's own charity, Student Community Action, offers work on rewarding local projects, and LUSTI, Liverpool University Student Trainers Initiative, provides free skills training.

Guild advice centre runs a free, confidential drop-in service for help on everything from welfare matters to your rights as a tenant. Together the Guild and the University offer commitment to academic success, welfare support and personal development, at the heart of one of the warmest, friendliest cities in the country.