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Getting a good idea of how transport works in the UK will make your time here easy and stress-free, meaning you can focus on having the best experience possible. You’ll also discover all the travel discounts available to students, helping you save money and reduce your cost of living.

Your life as a university student in the UK will be a unique experience. You might encounter new ways of living, studying, and socialising that are different from the way students do it in your home country. This guide will help you succeed as a student, whether it’s understanding the different types of university in the UK, adopting good academic habits, or making friends.

You’re one of their biggest supporters – even if they don’t always say it. From handling Results Day emotions to offering the right kind of encouragement, here are 10 things they might be thinking (but not telling you).

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group at 132 larger universities.

These statistical releases describe applicants and applications from the 2016 UCAS cycle at the 30 June deadline.

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group at 133 larger universities.

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data explorer shows unconditional offer-making to 18 year olds from England, Northern Ireland, and Wales by provider.

These data cover unconditional offer-making to 18 year olds from England, Northern Ireland, and Wales.

An interactive way to explore some of the 15 January deadline data for the 2019 cycle

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data reporting 2019 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

Our data reporting 2020 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

Our data reporting 2021 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

Deciding what to take to uni needs a bit more thought than shoving things into a suitcase and hoping for the best.

There is truly something for everyone in this little vintage city with a modern attitude.

Local yet international, full of heritage yet incredibly multicultural, large yet friendly and accessible – it has to be Manchester.