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27Rooms available
Canvas Boyce House
0.5 mi from centre3 room types
27–51 week tenancies
- Gym
- Study space
- Communal lounge
- Cinema room
- +1 more
Rooms available
UK48 stays listedFrom £240/week4 universities
Student accommodation in Glasgow
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38 matching places in Glasgow, showing 14
31Rooms available
Woodside House
2.1 mi from centre5 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +8 more
Rooms available
From
£240/week
Offer
37Rooms available
Scotway House, Glasgow
2.3 mi from centre5 room types
Bills included9–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +9 more
Rooms available
8Rooms available
The Glasgow Ballet School
1.2 mi from centre5 room types
Bills included8–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- +7 more
Rooms available
From
£250/week
16Rooms available
Bridle Works, Glasgow
0.2 mi from centre5 room types
- Gym
- Bike storage
- Study space
- Communal lounge
- +3 more
Rooms available
From
£253/week
40Rooms available
West End Student Accommodation
2.3 mi from centre6 room types
44–51 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- 24/7 security
- +5 more
Rooms available
From
£259/week
Offer
79Rooms available
iQ Elgin Place
0.7 mi from centre9 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- 24/7 security
- +5 more
Rooms available
10Rooms available
Willowbank
1.2 mi from centre3 room types
Bills included7–42 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +9 more
Rooms available
From
£271/week
Offer
77Rooms available
iQ Cullen House
0.7 mi from centre6 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- 24/7 security
- +5 more
Rooms available
44Rooms available
From
£299/week
39Rooms available
Bridge House
1.9 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +7 more
Rooms available
From
£315/week
66Rooms available
Dunaskin Mill
1.9 mi from centre4 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Parking
- +9 more
Rooms available
From
£320/week
20Waitlist only
Dobbie's Point
0.4 mi from centre1 room type
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Study space
- +2 more
Waitlist only
Pricing
On enquiry
13Waitlist only
Gibson Street
1.4 mi from centre1 room type
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- Study space
- +2 more
Waitlist only
Pricing
On enquiry
Neighbourhoods
Where to look in Glasgow
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Glasgow
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.
Hillhead and the West End
The University of Glasgow's main campus and the streets around Byres Road. Subway at Hillhead, tenements above the shops, and the highest rents in the city in exchange for the shortest walk.
- Kelvingrove Houseprice on enquiry
- Thurso Streetfrom £211/week
- Woodside Housefrom £240/week
Kelvinbridge and Woodlands
Between the university and the city centre, on the subway and the Kelvin walkway. Woodlands is the cheaper half and the one most first years find.
- Willowbankfrom £216/week
- The Glasgow Ballet Schoolfrom £250/week
- Gibson Streetprice on enquiry
Partick and Hyndland
West of the campus with a subway station, a rail station and the Clyde at the foot of it. Partick is roughly where the West End stops being expensive.
- West End Student Accommodationfrom £259/week
- Scotway House, Glasgowfrom £145/week
Finnieston and Yorkhill
Along the river between town and the West End, grown up around the Hydro and the Argyle Street restaurants. Twenty minutes to the university on foot, fifteen into town.
- Bridge Housefrom £199/week
- Dunaskin Millfrom £199/week
- Kelvin Courtfrom £203/week
Merchant City and city centre
Strathclyde and City of Glasgow College are here, and so is most of Glasgow's purpose-built student housing. Flat, central, and loud at the weekend.
- Martha Street Apartmentsfrom £160/week
- George Street Apartmentsfrom £208/week
- Merchant City Housefrom £120/week
Dennistoun and Townhead
East of the centre beside Strathclyde's campus, and the cheapest thing within walking distance of it. Victorian tenements, Alexandra Park, 15 minutes into town.
- Foundry Courtyard, Glasgowfrom £138/week
- St Mungo'sfrom £139/week
- St Jamesfrom £135/week
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Glasgow actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Mitchell Library
One of the largest public reference libraries in Europe, free, on North Street between the centre and the West End. Floors of desks and nearly always a free one.
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Free, and ten minutes on foot from the University of Glasgow. The organ recital at one o'clock is a real thing that happens every day.
- Glasgow Subway
Fifteen stations on one circle, with a student season ticket. Hillhead, Kelvinbridge, Partick, Govan and Ibrox are all on it, which is why the West End and the Southside feel closer than the map suggests.
- The Barras
Weekend market in the Gallowgate, east of the centre. Secondhand everything, with the Barrowland Ballroom upstairs for gigs.
A few Glasgow 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.
- Gibson Street0.3 miles
Closest to University of Glasgow
- George Street Apartmentsunder 0.1 miles
Closest to University of Strathclyde
- Dobbie's Point0.1 miles
Closest to Glasgow Caledonian University
- Blackfriarsfrom £118/week
Lowest listed rent here
- Martha Street Apartments18 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Glasgow
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Glasgow's student geography is settled by a single underground line. The Subway runs one circle, linking the West End where the University of Glasgow sits to the centre where Strathclyde and Caledonian are, and most commutes here are one or two stops. That matters more than it sounds, because it means the usual trade between rent and travel barely applies: you are not choosing between a cheap room far out and an expensive room near campus, you are choosing between a tenement flat in the West End and a purpose built room in town, both about fifteen minutes from everything. Glasgow is also one of the cheapest big cities on this site, and the gap is wide enough to change what you can afford to study on.
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.
Comparing rents? What a student room costs in Glasgow and seven other UK cities
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 Glasgow
The Subway is a single circular line and it is the thing to plan around: Hillhead, Kelvinbridge and Partick on the west side, Buchanan Street and St Enoch in the centre. It is quick, it is cheap, and it shuts earlier than any metro you have used, around half past eleven on weeknights and six on a Sunday, so check the last train before you rely on it for a late library session. Buses run later and cover the gaps, the Southside is better served by train than by Subway, and the city is flat enough that a West End to centre walk along the Kelvin is a genuine option in decent weather. Queen Street and Central stations are both in the middle of town, with Edinburgh under an hour from Queen Street.
Universities in Glasgow
- University of GlasgowStudent accommodation near University of Glasgow
- University of StrathclydeStudent accommodation near University of Strathclyde
- Glasgow Caledonian UniversityStudent accommodation near Glasgow Caledonian University
- University of the West of Scotland GlasgowStudent accommodation near University of the West of Scotland Glasgow
Frequently asked questions
- 44 buildings in Glasgow publish a starting price, from £118 to £259 a week, and half of them start under £180. Most of the difference is area and room type rather than one or two outliers. Each figure is the cheapest room in that building, so compare the room lists rather than the headline.
- The buildings spread across 6 areas, led by Hillhead and the West End, Kelvinbridge and Woodlands, Partick and Hyndland, and Finnieston and Yorkhill. Each is filed by its coordinates rather than by the area its marketing claims, so the table above puts every building where it actually stands.
- Nearly all of them: 38 of 48. The remaining 10 publish nothing either way, which is not the same as charging extra, and each property page says which of the two it is.