The Common shows you what student accommodation is actually like — through verified student experiences.
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Pick your university, explore its accommodation, then read what students actually said.
Every figure on this page is calculated from the approved reviews currently in the register. Nothing is typed in by hand and nothing is estimated. When a new review is approved, these numbers move on their own.
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Mean score per category across every approved review that rated it. Unrated categories are excluded rather than counted as zero.
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Ranked by how many approved reviews sit behind them, not by score.
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Average overall score and review volume per university. Universities with fewer than 5 reviews are flagged as a thin sample.
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Disrepair and friction tags selected by students on their own reviews.
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The most recent approved reviews to enter the register.
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Unedited extracts from recent approved reviews. Reviewers stay anonymous.
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Only reviews with an approved moderation status are counted. A review is written by a student who confirmed their status by email; the email itself is never published and is not visible to anyone browsing the site.
An overall score is the mean of the categories that a review actually rated. Buildings, universities and categories with small samples are labelled as a thin sample: treat those figures as a signal, not as a statistically settled result. There is no paid placement and no editorial override anywhere on this page.
Rankings calculated automatically from verified student reviews. Updates as new reviews come in. No editorial picks, no paid placements. Buildings need at least 3 approved reviews to be eligible, and scores are weighted so a hall with a handful of reviews cannot outrank a well-reviewed one on a lucky streak.
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Every written review left by a verified student, newest first. Search by hall, area or a keyword like "damp" or "noisy", and tap any review to open the full building page.
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