Student Life

Leeds is a vibrant and exciting city, and has one of the largest student populations in the UK. It's a great place to live and study, with something for everyone.

Find out about settling in, finding your way around, studying, working and living in Leeds, plus useful links and contacts to help your time here be amazing and rewarding.

Your time in Leeds

From halls of residence to privately owned accommodation, discover how to make your room and house a place you'll call home. You can also find out how to enjoy your new community in Leeds.

Whether you're looking for a lecture room on campus, where to get a bike to explore the city or you're planning a trip by bus or train, then where to go and how to get there is the first thing to get sorted.

Children and Family

If you're bringing your family to Leeds when you come to study, find out about family life on and off campus to make the move as smooth as possible so that your new life in Leeds gets off to a good start.

Staying Safe

There are a lot of simple and practical things that you can do to make sure you look after yourself and your belongings.

Health and wellbeing

To get the most out of your time in Leeds, look after your emotional and physical health - that way you'll be more likely to enjoy all aspects of student living in this fabulous city.

Work

From looking for part-time work, advice about funding your time in Leeds to graduate job hunting, our team of experts can support and guide through the world of employment.

Prayer, contemplation and faith-based support

The University has prayer facilities on campus and faith-based support is available for all, whether you practise a faith or not. Our quiet spaces offer calm for rest and reflection.

Holiday opening hours and support

Find out more about support, activities and opportunities to connect with others and have fun during holidays! 

Medium - our longer form content

We’ve got a lot of longer pieces of content to enjoy. They live on Medium, which is a blogging platform and are on a huge range of topics from wellbeing, academic life, exploring campus and discovering the city.

Opportunities to work with the Student Communications and Engagement team

Want to get paid to share your opinions, experiences and ideas? Come work with Student Communications and Engagement!

Registering to vote

To vote in an election you’ll need to be registered.