There is a good social life, however, and a lot of clubs and societies. Plymouth is also home to the university’s postgraduate medical school at Derriford hospital.. Jo Beal, aged 22 and from Lincolnshire, has just finished her second year of marine biology at the University of Plymouth

“IT’S DEFINITELY more of a working environment than a friendly environment – it’s geared to getting the job done. The campuses are sited in Plymouth, Exeter, Exmouth and Seale-Hayne, near Newton Abbot.

The Plymouth campus, in the centre of the city, is home to the faculties of technology, science, human sciences and the university’s business school. It has 28 subject-based departments and schools offering flexible modular degree programmes. Twenty-one subject areas have been awarded an excellent rating for the quality of their teaching and the university was ranked 15th out of 102 universities in a recent assessment of the quality of its research work.University of Plymouth, which has more than 18,000 students on four campuses, is one of the UK’s largest universities. Historically, student relations with the local working class community have not been good, but things are now said to be improving.University of Wales, Cardiff, dominates the centre of Wales’s large and lively capital city It has 11,298 undergraduates and 2,964 postgraduates.

It has a high proportion of business and technology students. The university has 9,689 undergraduates and 2,127 postgraduates. The latter is used by students training to be teachers and by environmental studies, English, music, geography, history and sports studies students.The Newport campus caters for electrical and electronic engineering, computing, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, business and professional studies students.The University of Glamorgan, formerly the Polytechnic of Wales, is based on a 70-acre campus in Treforest near Pontypridd. It has 2,900 full-time students and 4,778 part-time students.The college has two main campuses, the Allt-yr-yn campus in Newport, southeast Wales, and the Caerleon campus in Caerleon.