Revealed: The UK unis where students are most scared to walk alone at night in 2024

Walking alone at night is a serious concern for students, whether your friends left you at the club or you’re fed up of a party and can’t catch an Uber.  The security training company Get Licensed worked out the UK unis where students are most scared to walk alone at night in 2024.

Durham is often slated for its lack of nightlife, but this makes the city the safest to walk through at night. 76 per cent of people at Durham feel safe walking around the city by themselves in the dark.

Despite their bougie reputation, many Russell Group unis are in cities that aren’t so safe to walk through alone at night. The University of Southampton and the University of Manchester are both in cities where only a third of people feel safe walking along at night.

Students are most scared to walk alone at night in Birmingham, which is home to the Russell Group University of Birmingham as well as four other unis, and Coventry, which is (confusingly) the location of the University of Warwick as well as Coventry University.

So, here are cities with UK unis ranked by the percentage of people that feel safe walking alone at night in 2024:

20. Durham

Durham University

76 per cent

19. York

University of York, York St John University

69 per cent

18. Bath

Bath Spa University, University of Bath

65 per cent

17. Lincoln

Bishop Grosseteste University, University of Lincoln

64 per cent

=15. Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh Napier University

62 per cent

=15. Sunderland

University of Sunderland

62 per cent

14. Exeter

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University of Exeter

55 per cent

13. Newport

University of South Wales

52 per cent

12. Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle University, Northumbria University

51 per cent

11. Reading

University of Reading

46 per cent

=9. Belfast

Queen’s University Belfast

Ulster University

42 per cent

=9. Glasgow

University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow School of Art, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

42 per cent

8. Plymouth

Plymouth Marjon University, University of Plymouth

39 per cent

7. London

There are so many unis in London that it took me a small age to type them all out

Birbeck, University of London; Brunel University of London, City St George’s, University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London, Imperial College London, King’s College London, Kingston University, London Metropolitan University, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London South Bank University, Middlesex University, Queen Mary University of London, SOAS, University of London, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, University College London (UCL), University of East London, University of Greenwich, University of Roehampton, University of the Arts London, University of West London, University of Westminster

38 per cent

6. Colchester

University of Essex

36 per cent

5. Manchester

University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), University of Salford, University of Bolton, Royal Northern College of Music

33 per cent

4. Southampton

Solent University, University of Southampton

31 per cent

3. Northampton

University of Northampton

30 per cent

=1. Birmingham

Aston University, Birmingham City University, Newman University, University of Birmingham, University College Birmingham

26 per cent

=1. Coventry

University of Warwick, Coventry University, Arden University, Coventry College

26 per cent

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