University of East Anglia, details of East Anglia university
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
East Anglia
University ranking
- 2010 32
- 2009 33
- 2008 =20
History
- Opened in 1963, one of the sixties generation of universities and part of the 1994 group.
- The first UK university to offer courses in creative writing, environmental sciences and development studies.
- New medical school and school of pharmacy (first in the UK for 30 years) both opened in the past six years.
Location and transport
- Set in 129 hectares (320 acres) of parkland with its own ‘Norfolk Broad’.
- 15 minutes from the lively centre of historic Norwich, one of the UK’s top ten shopping cities.
- The cheapest UK city annual bus pass; half-hourly London trains; regular Norwich–Amsterdam/Paris shuttle flights (then the world’s your oyster).
Accommodation
- A third of the university’s 3,500 rooms are under four years old and most are en-suite.
- UEA’s oldest residences – the ‘ziggurats’ – are now grade 2 listed buildings and have been recently refurbished.
- Freshers who live over 19 km (12 miles) away and new international students applying within deadlines are guaranteed rooms.
- City rents around £56 a week for a room in a shared house.
- Campus rents range from £58–93 a week.
- Click here for more information.
