Revealed: the most expensive student digs – Scotland
The most expensive student digs in Scotland has been revealed as seven premium rooms in the halls of residences at Edinburgh University, which will cost a whopping £216 a week.
In second place, according to a survey by Scotland on Sunday, is St Andrews University in Fife, where some catered, en suite rooms will cost students – or more likely their parents – up to £188 per week. Even self-catered rooms will cost £135 per week, almost twice the amount charged at the cheapest halls of residence at the University of the West Coast of Scotland in Paisley.
The charges match those being asked for by Unite, a private company which has moved into the student market in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen with facilities such as wide-screen TVs that would be unrecognisable to students of the previous generation. For around the same money, students could obtain a two-bedroom flat In Edinburgh’s New Town on the private rental market or a three-bedroom property in other areas of the city …