London students spend the least amount of time socialising in the UK

Freshers' Week is well and truly back. This year, NatWest has investigated 35 student cities across the UK to expose the most sociable places, how much they stend on going out, as well as revealing the overall affordability.

Key findings:

Where are the most social university cities?

1. Reading students spend 38.6 hours a month socialising: that's 11.2 hours more than the average UK student
2. Although Reading students are partying hard, they managed to spend more time than the UK average on their academic study, at 104 hours per month
3. St. Andrews is a close runner up with 38.3 hours spent socialising. However, they spend 118.1 hours per month on academic study
4. London students spent the least amount of time on academic study at 61.5 hours per month - that's is 30.2 hours less than the average student
5. How much are students spending on alcohol and nights out?
6. Plymouth students spent the most on alcohol out of all 35 cities at £40.90 a month, closely followed by Newcastle students, who spend £38.10
7. Birmingham students are spending the most on going out at £33.40 per month, compared with Durham students who spend much less at £18.20
8. What impact does this have on budgeting?
9. Only a quarter (23%) of students are managing to successfully budget during term time, however, 42% are trying to budget, but failing to stick to it
10. More than a third (35%) of students are not budgeting at all.

-ENDS-

Would you like to find out where your university city ranks on the Student Living Index for socialising, budgeting and overall affordability?

Source:  http://personal.natwest.com/personal/life-moments/student-living-index.html

About the data: The findings were taken from NatWest's Student Living Index 2017.

This was a survey conducted through YouthSight asking 3,407 university students across 35 cities in the UK how they spend their time and money.