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Leeds Metropolitan University

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  • Formerly Leeds Polytechnic
Overview
Sex Ratio (M:F): 45:55 Full-time undergraduates: 14,911
Applications per place: 3 Points range: 120-300
Flunk rate: 15.6% Unemployed after 6mths: 7.1%
Booze Index: £1.80 Av. housing cost per week: £71.88
Av. debt per year: £2,250
Access fund: £900,000
Cost of living: £££

Pitched next door to Leeds Uni is another shrine to education – Leeds Met. The Met, a newer uni with more local students, is like a funky sibling – better music, more relaxed and into vocational subjects like Sport, Tourism and Casino Management...more on studying It cosies up to its citymate to create a compact, studenty pleasurezone full of sociable scholars...more detail There’s sibling rivalry aplenty on the sports field and Leeds Met regularly kick Leeds Uni’s butt at yearly varsity matches...more on sports The Met’s got the upper hand in live music - its major venue is a regular stop-off for big names, complementing the four bars, varied eateries and growing city nightlife fuelled by thousands of students...more on entertainment There are two other sites, one three miles away in green and lovely Headingly and a titchy FE college in Harrogate. All have a bar, library and a health centre for minor aches...more on wellbeing/money Freshers who’ve firmly accepted an offer are guaranteed a room in halls but outside rent’s not too costly and there’s top-class housing help...more on housing

Woohoo: Tuition fees at £2,000 – the cheapest in the UK
Boohoo: Leeds Uni can be a hard act to follow.
Tel:
(0113) 812 3113
E-mail:
course-enquiries@leedsmet.ac.uk
Website:
www.lmu.ac.uk 

Text in italics is Push's opinion - take it or leave it Last updated on: Wednesday, January 06, 2010

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