
The universities with the most STDs
Chlamydia was the most common infection
Last month 12,000 people responded to The Tab’s sex survey. In it we asked whether you had contracted an STD. Now, we’ve collated those answers by university.
Northumbria were, for once, leagues ahead of everyone else. Out of the students surveyed, 20 per cent admitted to having had an STD. 13 per cent of them had Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea trailed behind in second place, with only 4 per cent of students having contracted it.
Congratulations Lancaster, you are the cleanest of the lot – only three per cent of you admitted to having had an STD at some point. Their most common infection turned out to be Chlamydia, and a new runner in the form of Herpes.
This pattern was mirrored across the board, with Chlamydia being the most common STD. On average 10 per cent of all students admitted to having an STD.
The league table for the number of students with STDs:
Aberdeen – 15 per cent
Aberystwyth – 13 per cent
Bath – 10 per cent
Belfast – 8 per cent
Birmingham – 8 per cent
Bristol – 9 per cent
Cardiff – 12 per cent
Cambridge – 4 per cent
Durham – 6 per cent
Edinburgh – 8 per cent
Exeter – 9 per cent
Glasgow – 9 per cent
Hull – 10 per cent
Kent – 6 per cent
King’s London – 5 per cent
Lancaster – 3 per cent
Leeds – 13 per cent
Leicester – 6 per cent
Lincoln – 6 per cent
Liverpool – 12 per cent
Loughborough – 14 per cent
Manchester – 10 per cent
Newcastle – 13 per cent
Northumbria – 20 per cent
Nottingham Trent – 12 per cent
Nottingham – 11 per cent
Oxford – 8 per cent
Oxford Brookes – 12 per cent
Reading – 10 per cent
Royal Holloway – 9 per cent
Sheffield – 9 per cent
Southampton – 5 per cent
Sussex – 7 per cent
UCL – 8 per cent
UEA – 8 per cent
Warwick – 6 per cent
York – 4 per cent