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Student accommodation in Cambridge
7 stays in Cambridge
7 places in Cambridge
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37Rooms available
Scholars View, Cambridge
1.8 mi from centre11 room types
Bills included37–44 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +4 more
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27Rooms available
CB1
0.4 mi from centre11 room types
Bills included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- Communal lounge
- +4 more
Rooms available
From
£206.77/week
Offer
20Rooms available
Anglia House
0.8 mi from centre7 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- +8 more
Rooms available
2 offers
35Rooms available
Stellaris, Cambridge
0.9 mi from centre11 room types
Bills included9–44 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +4 more
Rooms available
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Studios33from £265/weekA private bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen in one self-contained space.En-suite rooms24from £205/weekA private bathroom with a kitchen and living space shared with flatmates.Shared rooms5from £185/weekA bedroom shared by two or more students, often at a lower weekly rent.Apartments3Ask usA multi-room home suited to friends or students who want more shared living space.
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Student Castle Cambridge
1.3 mi from centre7 room types
- Wi-Fi included
- Gym
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- +3 more
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Start with your university
Pick a university and see the buildings around it, with the walk or the ride to campus on every one.
Neighbourhoods
Where to look in Cambridge
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Cambridge
Areas students actually take rooms in, with the buildings closest to each one. Matched by location, so a building appears under the area it stands in rather than the area its marketing claims.
Mill Road and Romsey Town
Independent shops and restaurants strung the length of one road east of the station, with terraces behind, and the liveliest part of student Cambridge. Affordable by local standards only.
- The Cam Foundryfrom £185/week
- Anglia Housefrom £220/week
- Stellaris, Cambridgefrom £237/week
City centre and Petersfield
Among the colleges, mostly flats above shops, at a premium and with almost no parking. You are paying to be inside the postcard.
- CB1from £206.77/week
- Student Castle Cambridgeprice on enquiry
- Castle Hillprice on enquiry
Chesterton
North of the river, residential and convenient for the science parks, with Cambridge North station at the top end. Ten minutes to the colleges on two wheels.
- Scholars View, Cambridgefrom £205/week
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Cambridge actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Cambridge Central Library
Public study space inside the Grand Arcade in the city centre.
- University buses
Services connecting the railway station, city centre and expanding western and biomedical sites.
- Cambridge Market
Daily central market for food and everyday shopping beside the colleges.
- The Backs
Riverside green spaces behind the central colleges, crossed by important walking and cycling routes.
A few Cambridge buildings worth a look
Picked by distance, price and choice, measured from the listings on this page. Not a ranking, and not a recommendation: the numbers are what they are on the day you read this.
- Castle Hill0.7 miles
Closest to University of Cambridge
- Anglia House0.5 miles
Closest to Anglia Ruskin University
- The Cam Foundryfrom £185/week
Lowest listed rent here
- Stellaris, Cambridge11 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Cambridge
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Cambridge is the most cycled city in Britain. A larger share of people here commute by bike than anywhere else in the country, the city is flat, small and congested enough that driving is slower, and the practical consequence for a student is that distance matters much less than it would elsewhere. Almost every area below is ten or fifteen minutes from the centre on two wheels. What does matter is price: this is one of the least affordable cities in the UK, and the private market is tight because the colleges house most undergraduates and everyone else competes for what is left.
New to booking student accommodation?
Room types, what bills included really covers, when to book, and what to check if you are arriving from abroad.
Other student cities in the UK
Comparing options? These are the other cities in the UK where most students on our shortlist are basing themselves.
Getting around Cambridge
Plan around a bicycle. The city has a dense network of lanes and off-road paths, the busway out to St Ives and Trumpington has a cycle track beside it, and nearly everything is within fifteen minutes of nearly everything else. Cambridge has two stations: the main one south east of the centre, with King's Cross in about fifty minutes, and Cambridge North for the science parks. The Stagecoach Universal and Citi buses cover the biomedical campus and the outer areas. A car is close to useless here, with permit parking almost everywhere and a congested centre that is largely closed to traffic.
Frequently asked questions
- 5 buildings in Cambridge publish a starting price, from £185 to £237 a week, and half of them start under £207. They sit unusually close together, so in Cambridge the choice is about location and room rather than price. Each figure is the cheapest room in that building, so compare the room lists rather than the headline.
- Everything we list in Cambridge is in Mill Road and Romsey Town, City centre and Petersfield, and Chesterton. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- 4 of the 7 buildings here say so, and 3 publish nothing either way. A page that says nothing is a gap in what the building has told anyone, not a bill, so ask before you rule it out.