These Russell Group unis officially have the most sleep-deprived students in 2025

University is a very busy time. You’ve got to find a load of new friends, attend every available sports night, feed yourself something other than instant noodles, and actually do a degree. It’s a miracle UK uni students get any sleep at all, tbh. A new study has found people are much more sleep deprived in some areas of the UK than others. So, based on this, here are the Russell Group unis with the most sleep-deprived students in 2025.

Notts is apparently the most sleep-deprived place in the UK. Nottingham has the most nightlife venues per person (28 places for every 100,000 residents). I guess Notts students are too busy vibing in clubs to sleep. At the other end, people in Westminster aren’t so sleep deprived. So, Imperial College London and KCL students are apparently getting more sleep than most other Russell Group uni students. Perhaps they can’t afford to go out anywhere in central London, so get lots of early nights instead?

Researchers at MattressNextDay analysed a whole lot of data from different areas in the UK, including how many people go to hospital for problems relating to sleep, what the light pollution is like, how many nightlife venues there are, and how much money people spend on coffee. They used the data to assign different areas of the UK a “sleep deprivation score”. We then ranked the UK’s Russell Group unis by the sleep deprivation score of the area they’re in.

I didn’t forget about the University of Cambridge, the University of Exeter, the University of Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast or the University of Sheffield – MattressNextDay didn’t have enough data for those areas. Sozzles.

So, here are the Russell Group unis with the most sleep-deprived students in 2025:

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=18. Imperial College London and King’s College London (KCL) – 30.3 sleep deprivation score

17. University of Southampton – 38.3 sleep deprivation score

=15. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and University College London (UCL) – 43.8 sleep deprivation score

14. Cardiff University – 49.4 sleep deprivation score

Who hasn’t fallen asleep in a uni library?

13. Durham University – 52.4 sleep deprivation score

12. Queen Mary University of London – 60.2 sleep deprivation score

11. University of Leeds – 61.9 sleep deprivation score

10. University of Warwick – 64.0 sleep deprivation score

9. University of Birmingham – 65.3 sleep deprivation score

8. University of Liverpool – 65.4 sleep deprivation score

7. University of Manchester – 67.6 sleep deprivation score

I’m amazed Manchester students are getting any sleep at all tbh

6. University of York – 67.8 sleep deprivation score

5. University of Bristol – 71.8 sleep deprivation score

4. University of Edinburgh – 82.2 sleep deprivation score

3. University of Glasgow – 82.5 sleep deprivation score

2. Newcastle University – 87.1 sleep deprivation score

1. University of Nottingham – 91.0 sleep deprivation score

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