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33Rooms available
St Davids
0.5 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +10 more
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UK7 stays listedFrom £79/week2 universities
Student accommodation in Swansea
7 stays in Swansea
7 places in Swansea
67Rooms available
Seren, Swansea
0.4 mi from centre17 room types
Bills included9–43 week tenancies
- Laundry
- Gym
- 24/7 security
- Study space
- +7 more
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From
£109/week
106Rooms available
Oldway Centre
0.5 mi from centre14 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +8 more
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From
£119/week
36Rooms available
Ty Nant
0.5 mi from centre9 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +8 more
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From
£120/week
36Rooms available
Coppergate
0.1 mi from centre18 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Gym
- Bike storage
- Study space
- +7 more
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From
£124/week
51Rooms available
true student Swansea
0.9 mi from centre7 room types
Bills included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- +10 more
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From
£129/week
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Studios42from £155/weekA private bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen in one self-contained space.En-suite rooms30from £79/weekA private bathroom with a kitchen and living space shared with flatmates.Apartments10from £129/weekA multi-room home suited to friends or students who want more shared living space.
31Availability on enquiry
Crown Place
0.5 mi from centre15 room types
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
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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 Swansea
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Swansea
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.
Uplands and Mount Pleasant
Cafes and pubs on the hill above Singleton, with Dylan Thomas's birthplace in the middle of it. The established student quarter and the busiest.
- Coppergatefrom £124/week
- Seren, Swanseafrom £109/week
- Ty Nantfrom £120/week
St Thomas and Port Tennant
East of the centre and nearest the Bay Campus, cheaper and barely studenty, with the docks for neighbours.
- Crown Placefrom £130/week
- St Davidsfrom £79/week
- true student Swanseafrom £129/week
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Swansea actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Swansea Central Library
Public study space in the civic centre beside the waterfront.
- University bus routes
Services linking the city centre with Singleton Park and Bay campuses.
- Swansea Market
Large covered market in the city centre for food and everyday shopping.
- Singleton Park
The major green space surrounding the original university campus.
A few Swansea 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.
- Coppergate1.5 miles
Closest to Swansea University
- Seren, Swanseafrom £109/week
Lowest listed rent here
- Crown Place15 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Swansea
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Swansea University has two campuses and both of them are on the sea. Singleton Park sits above the beach west of the centre, inside a botanical garden; the Bay Campus is five miles the other way at Fabian Way, with the sand on its doorstep. Very few universities can say that about either site, and almost none about both. The practical consequence is less romantic: those two sites are twenty five minutes apart by bus, so the area that works for one does not work for the other.
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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 Swansea
The 8 and 10 buses along Oystermouth Road and Fabian Way connect the centre to Singleton and the Bay Campus respectively, and the university runs its own shuttle between the two sites, which is the service to check if your timetable crosses them. Swansea railway station is in the centre, with Cardiff about an hour and London Paddington around three. The real asset here is the Swansea Bay cycle path: five flat traffic-free miles along the seafront from the Marina past Singleton to Mumbles, which beats the bus in good weather and is the reason a lot of students here own a bike.
Frequently asked questions
- 6 buildings in Swansea publish a starting price, from £79 to £129 a week, and half of them start under £120. 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.
- Everything we list in Swansea is in Uplands and Mount Pleasant and St Thomas and Port Tennant. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- Nearly all of them: 6 of 7. The remaining 1 publish nothing either way, which is not the same as charging extra, and each property page says which of the two it is.