These six Russell Group unis are officially among the most overcrowded in the world

Have you ever planned to spend a super productive afternoon studying in the library, and found that literally every space is full? Some UK unis are way more pressed for space than others. The tutoring site Edumentors worked out which the most overcrowded universities in the world are, and six of the UK’s Russell Group unis actually made the top 20.

To calculate this, Edumentors figured out how many staff and students are lurking at each then divided that number by the size of each campus.

Two London unis are in the top 20 most overcrowded unis – University College London (UCL) and Imperial College London. I guess because both of these unis are based in the middle of London, the unis are pressed on space? It must be hard to expand your campus if the River Thames is in the way.

Good luck making it into the club on sports night

The University of Manchester is easily the most overcrowded Russell Group uni. In fact, it’s the second most overcrowded university in the world. The Uni of Manchester has 165,000 people per km² of campus. Only the Sapienza University of Rome has more than that, with a whopping 272,091 people per km².

So, here are the six Russell Group unis that made the list of the world’s most overcrowded unis, ranked by how many students and staff there are per km² of the campus.

6. University of Cambridge – 5,609 people/km²

5. University of Warwick – 12,717 people/km²

4. Imperial College London – 30,381 people/km²

3. University College London (UCL) – 67,9945 people/km²

2. University of Edinburgh – 149,763 people/km²

1. University of Manchester – 165,100 people/km²

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