Loughborough University

While Loughborough may be a fairly run-of-the-mill East Midlands market town, when it comes to sport, Loughborough University hops, skips and jumps ahead of any UK uni. ...more detail With a winning run to  make Tiger Woods weep, the uni's won the British Universities Sports Association Championship for over twenty years in a row now and most students live, breathe and sweat any physical activity that involves competition or culminates in a drinking game...more on sports As well as outstanding sporting facilities, it has one of the best university physiotherapy and sports injury clinics in the country. Loughborough Uni also holds its own when it comes to teaching and research, offering a wide range of subjects that have little to do with hitting balls or torn ligaments...more on academic The campus basks in leafy parkland, just a mile west of the town centre. All first years can live on campus - and most do. Quality of accommodation varies from  soviet block-esque towers offering spacious rooms to boxier cells ...more on housing Students run a particularly slick Rag operation that makes others look ragged...more on the SU

Woohoo: The cream of the sporting crop
Boohoo: Pizza and playstation average Joe may feel a little inadequate among the fitness fanatics
Tel: (01509) 223 522
E-mail: admissions@lboro.ac.uk
Website: www.lboro.ac.uk