Queen's ranked 8th most affordable university in UK

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Thursday, 19 July 2018 13:48

By Grainne Connolly @grainne555

by Gráinne Connolly

New research has shown that Queen's University in Belfast has been ranked as the 8th most affordable university in the UK.

The figures have been released by 'Totally Money', a credit check and comparison specialist.

It's researchers looked at the Sunday Times Good University Guided 2018 and ranked the Top 50 universities in order, from the most affordable, to least.

It considered the following factors when compiling results:

weekly rent of university halls
cinema ticket price
monthly gym membership cost
cappuccino cost
meal cost
price of a pint from Wetherspoon
the cost of a doner kebab
price of a cab from the town centre to the university

Below is a table of the Top 10 most affordable Universities, including Queen's, according to Totally Money:

	University Town	Rent	Cinema	Gym	Cappuccino	Meal	Pint	Kebab	Cab
1	University of Warwick	£72	£6.50	£31.50	£2.45	£10.00	£2.39	£3.99	£6.50
2	University of East Anglia	£54	£9.00	£32.54	£2.48	£12.00	£2.75	£5.30	£9.00
3	Swansea University	£89	£9.50	£19.95	£2.48	£12.00	£2.19	£5.50	£6.50
4	University of Bath	£70	£10.00	£26.25	£2.54	£15.00	£2.29	£6.90	£9.00
5	Keele University	£85	£11.00	£21.99	£2.67	£12.50	£1.99	£4.50	£5.50
6	University of Birmingham	£87	£9.00	£14.70	£2.50	£12.00	£2.45	£5.00	£7.50
7	University of Manchester	£95	£9.50	£16.80	£2.57	£10.50	£2.29	£3.90	£4.00
8	Queen's University, Belfast	£73	£9.00	£28.88	£2.42	£9.00	£2.85	£5.00	£4.00
9	Nottingham Trent University	£97	£10.00	£10.49	£2.46	£10.00	£2.39	£4.50	£3.50
10	University of Essex	£79	£9.00	£26.25	£2.49	£12.00	£2.45	£3.99	£12.00