UNDERGRADUATES

• Guide for new undergraduates
  • Accommodation guarantee
  • Choosing your accommodation
  • The residences
    • Badock Hall
    • Churchill Hall
    • City centre living
    • Clifton Hill House
    • Colston Street
    • Durdham Hall
    • Goldney Hall
    • Hiatt Baker Hall
    • Hillside Woodside
    • Manor Hall
    • Northwell House
    • 115 Queens Road
    • Richmond Terrace
    • Student Houses
    • The Hawthorns
    • University Hall
    • Wills Hall
    • Winkworth House
    • Woodland Court
  • Residential life
  • Accommodation fees
  • Applications and offers
  • What happens next
• Study Abroad students
• Current students
• Erasmus Exchange students
• Pathway/Foundation students

Accommodation fees

How is my accommodation fee calculated?

The University of Bristol has been creating residences for students for almost 100 years so there is a huge variety of accommodation. In order to calculate our fees as fairly as possible we start by looking at the size of your study bedroom. Our standard rooms fall between 9 and 11 square metres of usable floor space and we have bands either side of that. All our room were last measured in February 2012

But your accommodation fee will often cover far more than just a room and so we add extras to the basic fee for:

• a washbasin or en suite
• the extra facilities your residence offers such as a common room, bar, computer room, gardens and grounds
• enhancement to your room
• catering

Once all this has been added together the fees are banded. This makes it possible for us the administer the fees and avoid mistakes but it can mean that some rooms in the same rent band are a bit bigger or smaller than others.

What does my accommodation fee include?

• Exclusive occupation of a single room or joint occupation of a shared room for the duration of the fixed term subject to the Student Residence Conditions
• Use of all the facilities in your residence and use of shared facilities where these are indicated in the online Guide for Undergraduates.
• All your fuel and water costs
• Your bus pass
• Your Resnet connection
• In catered residences breakfast and dinner (Monday to Friday), brunch on Saturday and breakfast and lunch on Sunday

Possessions insurance is included in the accommodation fee if you are going to live at Blenheim Court, Culver House, Drake House, Unite House or Waverley House

What does my total fee include?

A refundable deposit of £200. We will charge you out of this deposit for any damage you or your guests do or if you are in arrears with your rent. Otherwise your deposit will be returned to your after the end of your tenancy. The deposit has to be paid in your first payment.

A non refundable JCR/Orbital fee of between £40 and £50 which is used by your JCR or Orbital to organise social events for you. The JCR/Orbital fee has to be paid in your first payment.

A non refundable insurance payment (£15.75 in 2011) which covers your personal possessions while you are living in one of our allocated residences. You are advised to check your policy for details of cover and to ensure it is sufficient. The insurance premium has to be paid in your first payment.

Accommodation Fee which may be paid in one payment by the first payment date or three instalments of 40%, 30% and 30%

Fee Payment Dates:

• by 24th October
• by 24th January
• by 24th April

Woodland Court

Students who are allocated a place at Woodland Court are required to pay the deposit of £250, £40 JCR/Orbital plus £13.20 insurance fee on acceptance of accommodation.

Is there any help available?

Further information about grants and bursaries is available from the Student Funding Office.

You may also be entitled to apply for the UNITE Accommodation and Access Bursary

 

Errors and omissions excepted.