Total cost of Uni over these days?

Arsey · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:13

Im going to uni next year hopefully and we have been told we will have about 20K debt :mad:

Booner! · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:14

So on average im looking at £50 a week on living... including beer?

DaveyD · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:18

Arsey said:
Im going to uni next year hopefully and we have been told we will have about 20K debt

If you have jobs over the summer etc, you can drop the debt a little. And as said above, it'll only slowly come out of your earnings over time. There are also grants that people can apply for under special circumstances, so if parents earn very little and can't support you in anyway, then you can get some money or some fees paid for.

Thousands of people will be in the same position as you at uni, though it doesn't make it any better, nobody is alone in the silly amounts of cash that has to be paid out.

DaveyD · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:21

Booner! said:
So on average im looking at £50 a week on living... including beer?

If you're in catered halls during your first year, it could be a little less, but if you go out on Student nights in the weekdays, it's always dirt cheap for drinks, I'd say it's a reasonable average. But always cater for having weeks where you'll end up spending £100, like freshers week, and weeks where you do sod all and end up only buying some food to survive.

A placement year is always good to help try and save some cash for your final year, but depending on where the placement is, it can have quite an effect on what you do with the money, as it may be expensive accomodation etc and running a car / transport can be expensive.

geeza · 2 Oct 2006 at 01:18

Booner! said:
So on average im looking at £50 a week on living... including beer?

depends where you have beer and how much

davey D -are you insane -£100 on freshers week! Im not a big drinker and spent about 250. soon adds up with freshers tickets and other events

I know mates that spent their max student loans for a term in 2 weeks. girls are just as bad if not worse as quite a few went and spent a shed load on clothes

Raymond Lin · 2 Oct 2006 at 01:31

geeza said:
depends where you have beer and how much

davey D -are you insane -£100 on freshers week! Im not a big drinker and spent about 250. soon adds up with freshers tickets and other events

I know mates that spent their max student loans for a term in 2 weeks. girls are just as bad if not worse as quite a few went and spent a shed load on clothes

That's just stupid, you can live like the Queen on £250. Even take aways twice a day i wouldn't hit £250, unless you go out and buy a few things that are £50 it's difficult to spent that much.

Arcade Fire · 2 Oct 2006 at 01:32

HangTime said:
£100 a week living costs excluding rent? You planning on champagne and caviar every day? As a low income student you really should be looking to halve that.

Come off it. I spent about £70-100 a week, every week, excluding food and rent. More in fresher's week. Going out and buying exciting new shiz soon adds up. If you either have a part-time job, or a vacation job, then it should be easily do-able though.

Skeptic · 2 Oct 2006 at 01:33

Booner! said:
So on average im looking at £50 a week on living... including beer?

As said, student deals are where it's at for drink. The pub round the corner from me on a Monday charge:

£1 for fosters/carling/strongbow
£1.50 for WKD/VK/Reef/etc
£1 for sambucca/tequila/sourz/etc

If drinking is your thing you could be drunk off £10.

R.O.S.S.I · 2 Oct 2006 at 09:22

Yeh sometimes you can get away with spending £10 on a night out, others u'll be spending £30-£40ish. I myself am cutting down on going out at the moment, primarily due to they not giving me my student loan yet the idiots.

BoomAM · 2 Oct 2006 at 10:37

This is one of the reasons why i choose not to go Uni. The costs.
Far too expensive for what i'd get out of it, imo.

Each to their own i suppose though.

Mulder · 2 Oct 2006 at 10:45

BoomAM said:
This is one of the reasons why i choose not to go Uni. The costs.
Far too expensive for what i'd get out of it, imo.

Each to their own i suppose though.

Your profile says you're a student?

aceface57 · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:20

CDj-Rossi said:
Yeh sometimes you can get away with spending £10 on a night out, others u'll be spending £30-£40ish. I myself am cutting down on going out at the moment, primarily due to they not giving me my student loan yet the idiots.

Im the same, for some reason no student loan came through, going to try and phone through again and see if i can get it sorted. Do you know if this has happened to quite a few people?

Booner! · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:34

fus said:
If drinking is your thing you could be drunk off £10.

oh really! I will hold you to that when im on my 11th beer :rolleyes:

alexakasloth · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:38

Mulder said:
Your profile says you're a student?

College I would have thought.

geeza · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:43

Raymond Lin said:
unless you go out and buy a few things that are £50 it's difficult to spent that much.

£50 a night x5 = £250

summer can be worse, food like bbqs and drinks. All dayers are a killer on the wallet, sometimes spening in excess of £100. 20 of your mates go to somewhere like york for example for someones birthday or even around a few smarter bars and your going to hit £50 easily

sid · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:49

geeza said:
£50 a night x5 = £250

summer can be worse, food like bbqs and drinks. All dayers are a killer on the wallet, sometimes spening in excess of £100. 20 of your mates go to somewhere like york for example for someones birthday or even around a few smarter bars and your going to hit £50 easily

Thats ridiculous budgeting. Nobody goes 5 X £50 nights a week. Such spending is unheard of for students. Well definately rare.

PhilthyPhil · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:54

I am just starting my third year. So far university has cost me roughly £10.5k, I estimate by the time I finish at the end of this year the total cost will be £16-18k. I paid £58 per week rent in my first two years and am paying £60 now, this was for 30 weeks in my first year and 42 weeks this year and last year. I guess you will also need to add on the higher fees as I have only been paying £1200 per year and isn't it now £3k or something?

shifty_uk · 2 Oct 2006 at 12:19

I was planning on trying to get into a Uni in London, this thread is really putting me off things now. I wasn't aware you get into so much debt. I don't know how I'd manage it. I'd need to pay for travel, accomodation, food and clothing. Even if I had some part time job, that would still only be bringing me in £30 a week extra, which could possible lower my loan ammount aswell?

I see why a lot of uni students walk around in dressed in rags.

semi-pro waster · 2 Oct 2006 at 12:20

sid said:
Thats ridiculous budgeting. Nobody goes 5 X £50 nights a week. Such spending is unheard of for students. Well definately rare.

It isn't budgeting and that is partly the point but it is remarkably easy to do, if you eat out, even just in bars anywhere from £5-10 a meal isn't uncommon then you have drinks on top of that. I can fairly easily spend that amount on a night out alone and I don't frequent particularly pricey bars or have hugely expensive tastes, you also have to remember that night club entry can be anywhere from £2ish on a quiet night to £10(about the max here) or well over for more popular areas/club nights.

Beansprout · 2 Oct 2006 at 12:24

geeza said:
£50 a night x5 = £250

summer can be worse, food like bbqs and drinks. All dayers are a killer on the wallet, sometimes spening in excess of £100. 20 of your mates go to somewhere like york for example for someones birthday or even around a few smarter bars and your going to hit £50 easily

You don't need to spend that much though, so it's hardly a realistic view of what uni costs....infact I don't think I could even spend that much regularly if I tried!