
These are the uni cities where students are most likely to have had things stolen
Almost half of students have had possessions stolen in the past two years
Whether it’s Fiat 500s in the student area, laptops in the library, or TVs from your uni house, students are no strangers to having things taken from them. One grad even recently said she had her stolen phone given back to her after the thief saw her graduation pics on it.
New research has found that almost half of university students have had items stolen in the past two years. Research from MoneySuperMarket has revealed which cities university students were most likely to have had belongings stolen in the past two years.
It found Edinburgh students were the least likely to have had possessions stolen, with only 30 per cent saying they’ve experienced this in the past two years. At the other end of the scale was Belfast, with a whopping 71 per cent – almost three quarters of students there. This was followed by Coventry (68 per cent), Brighton and Hove (65 per cent), and York (62 per cent).
These are the uni cities where students have had items stolen within the past two years, ranked from lowest to highest:
Edinburgh – 30 per cent
Portsmouth – 37 per cent
Plymouth – 38 per cent
Glasgow – 39 per cent
London – 41 per cent
Aberdeen – 41 per cent
Swansea – 43 per cent
Norwich – 43 per cent
Newcastle – 43 per cent
Oxford – 44 per cent
Bristol – 45 per cent
Sheffield – 47 per cent
Leeds – 48 per cent
Liverpool – 49 per cent
Manchester – 51 per cent
Birmingham – 51 per cent
Southampton – 54 per cent
Cambridge – 55 per cent
Leicester – 56 per cent
Aberystwyth – 60 per cent
Cardiff – 61 per cent
York – 62 per cent
Brighton and Hove – 65 per cent
Coventry – 68 per cent
Belfast – 71 per cent
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