University Happiness League

Find out which students are happy as Larry and who needs to turn their frown upside down...

Thursday 28 June 2012
posted by Robin Edds
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Smiiiile - the University Happiness League is finally here.

We've already told you which university has the most sex and named (and shamed?) which uni's students are the biggest drinkers - but according to our happiness league sex and alcohol are not the keys to being happy.

Instead, it seems the secret to being a smiley student is a dam good education and a good-looking campus, as Cambridge sits proudly (and probably quite happily) in the top spot.

At the other end of the spectrum we find London Met propping up the table, with the Open University just above them - so it seems doing your degree on the sofa in front of the TV is not everyone's idea of happiness...

The following results were collected as part of the studentbeans.com Hopes & Dreams Survey. We asked students: 'On a scale of 1-10, how happy would you say you are with your life?'

Rank	University	Happiness (1 = Least Happy, 10 = Most Happy)
1	University of Cambridge	8.33
2	Aston University	8.22
3	Durham University	7.92
4	University of Glasgow	7.84
5	University of Southampton	7.83
6	University of Exeter	7.77
7	University of Nottingham	7.72
8	Lancaster University	7.7
9	University of the West of England	7.63
10	University of Sussex	7.6
11	Loughborough University	7.58
12	University of Salford	7.56
13	Cardiff University	7.55
14	University of Aberdeen	7.55
15	University of Liverpool	7.54
16	University of Leeds	7.47
17	University of Brighton	7.45
18	University of Gloucestershire	7.4
19	University of Plymouth	7.4
20	University of Strathclyde	7.38
21	Glasgow Caledonian University	7.38
22	Nottingham Trent University	7.34
23	Leeds Metropolitan University	7.33
24	Newcastle University	7.31
25	University of Hull	7.31
26	Imperial College London	7.21
27	University of Lincoln	7.2
28	University of Surrey	7.18
29	Anglia Ruskin University	7.17
30	University of Sheffield	7.16
31	University College London	7.15
32	University of York	7.09
33	University of Manchester	7.07
34	Birmingham City University	7.06
35	University of Warwick	7.06
36	University of Edinburgh	7.05
37	King's College London	7
38	Oxford Brookes University	7
39	University of Leicester	7
40	University of Portsmouth	7
41	University of Reading	7
42	University of Oxford	6.93
43	Liverpool John Moores University	6.9
44	Northumbria University	6.89
45	De Montfort University	6.88
46	University of Bristol	6.79
47	Kingston University	6.78
48	University of East Anglia	6.77
49	Aberystwyth University	6.75
50	Manchester Metropolitan University	6.75
51	University of Kent	6.73
52	University of Birmingham	6.62
53	Queen Mary, University of London	6.55
54	University of Glamorgan	6.5
55	Bournemouth University	6
56	Sheffield Hallam University	5.82
57	Open University	5.5
58	London Metropolitan University	5.33

We interviewed 1,232 students from 58 universities in the UK.

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