University of Hertfordshire

Hatfield, the Hertfordshire commuter town that houses the University’s main sites, is a sleeping satellite of London. The main campus seems divorced from everything but the A1, which runs right along one edge. The drab blocks that make up most of it are looking uglier and uglier in comparison to the bright, modern buildings of the sexy new de Havilland campus...more detail Students (most of them part-time) are usually career-orientated, beavering away at businessish, vocational subjects, often involving a year of industrial placement (the Uni pioneered the sandwich course)...more on academic Not much worth staying up for locally – monasteries have more exciting nightlife...more on entertainment Luckily the Union more than compensates by laying on a funky, varied ents scene that puts the town to shame...more on the SU Hertfordshire Sports Village, with its top shelf facilities is a major selling point – it was used by Olympians to warm up for the Beijing games...more on sports First years live in, but for everyone else the house-hunt can get fiercely competitive...more on housing Decent disabled access, including rooms for carers. Oodles of cash is available to brainiac science and engineering students...more on welfare

Woohoo: Impressive Olympic-worthy sports facilities
Boohoo: Hatfield just ain't happenin'.

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