15Rooms available
Blackfriars
0.4 mi from centre4 room types
Bills included33–34 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- Parking
- +6 more
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£118/week
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Student accommodation in Glasgow
22 stays in Glasgow
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Merchant City House
0.1 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included33 week tenancy
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- +3 more
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£124/week
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21Rooms available
Buchanan View
0.5 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
- Communal lounge
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41Rooms available
Foundry Courtyard, Glasgow
0.5 mi from centre7 room types
Bills included9–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +11 more
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27Rooms available
Merchant Apartments
0.5 mi from centre1 room type
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Gym
- Study space
- Cinema room
- +1 more
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24Rooms available
St Mungo's
0.4 mi from centre1 room type
Bills included
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Scotway House, Glasgow
2.3 mi from centre3 room types
Bills included9–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
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- +9 more
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56Rooms available
City Wharf, Glasgow
0.8 mi from centre4 room types
Bills included6–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
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22Rooms available
Kyle Park House
0.5 mi from centre4 room types
Bills included7–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
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- +7 more
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£155/week
Gym on-site
24Rooms available
Tramworks
1.6 mi from centre3 room types
Bills included27–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
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£156/week
16Rooms available
Bridle Works, Glasgow
0.2 mi from centre4 room types
- Gym
- Bike storage
- Study space
- Communal lounge
- +3 more
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£168/week
2 offers
27Rooms available
Canvas Boyce House
0.5 mi from centre4 room types
27–51 week tenancies
- Gym
- Study space
- Communal lounge
- Cinema room
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79Rooms available
iQ Elgin Place
0.7 mi from centre4 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
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- Gym
- 24/7 security
- +5 more
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77Rooms available
iQ Cullen House
0.7 mi from centre5 room types
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- Gym
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39Rooms available
Bridge House
1.9 mi from centre4 room types
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£199/week
66Rooms available
Dunaskin Mill
1.9 mi from centre7 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Parking
- +9 more
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£199/week
Study lounge
21Rooms available
Kelvin Court
1.7 mi from centre6 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
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£203/week
44Rooms available
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£207/week
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Thurso Street
1.9 mi from centre5 room types
Bills included34–43 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Bike storage
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- +8 more
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£211/week
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Glasgow Citi View, Glasgow
0.5 mi from centre3 room types
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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 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.
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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.