The Burgh is Best

Yes, we are the 17th best university in the world.

But who cares about the rankings.

Forget the tables, forget the mice, forget the wind and forget the 10pm alcohol curfew.

The University of Edinburgh is the best in the world and here’s why…

Look around you

Spending four years living the closest experience to Hogwarts you’ll ever get.

By the time you leave you’ll still be discovering hidden treasures or incredible little coffee shops that you never knew existed.

There’s so much here that someone at a campus university could never be lucky enough to experience.

Old College, Arthurs Seat, Edinburgh Castle, Teviot, McEwan Hall (without the scaffolding), Meadow Walk… I dare you to take a bad Instagram.

The Fame

There’s a never ending list of remarkable alumni who you’re walking the same halls as. Charles Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Higgs, Gordon Brown, Adam Smith, Alexander Graham Bell, Najah Al-Attar…

And some slightly less remarkable but famous alumni such as Pippa Middleton, Marcus Mumford and Louise from Made in Chelsea (her full title).

The party scene

We go on nights out in caves. Sometimes haunted caves. Amazing.

There’s a place for everyone to go out.

From free entry at Hive to the hefty prices at Opal or the carpet in Cav to the deep house lovers of Cab Vol.

If you don’t find somewhere you enjoy, you’ve only got yourself to blame.

Your friends campus has one strip of bars and pubs? That’s nice.

There are over 730 pubs in Edinburgh, spread all over the city.

Don’t want to go get sweaty in a cave with your fellow students? Nae bother.

Sports and societies at every uni love a good pub crawl, but here you can do a different route every week and still not have made a dent in what is on offer.

Festivals

No one can compete.

Hogmanay in Edinburgh was named as one of the Top 100 things to do before you die.

We don’t just celebrate the New Year for one night but three days.

The latest musical talents grace the street party stage, there’s a huge fireworks display (this city loves a good firework display) and the biggest rendition of Auld Lang Syne you’ll ever hear.

If you’re smart you’ll work at least one Fringe whilst you’re here and see the city in a whole different way.

The population doubles, licenses extend to 5am and ‘that guy from that panel show’ walking past you on Nicholson Street becomes the norm.

Not to mention you’ll become very popular at home.

All your mates will be texting asking to come and stay in your flat because accommodation is SO expensive in August.

Never a dull moment

Bored? Walk around the centre for ten minutes and see buskers, street performers, artists, bagpipe players, the most pierced lady in the world.

Literally anything you can imagine, we’ve got it and probably gone one step further.

We get you, Scott.

There’s always a big event around the corner.

Whether it’s Halloween, Hogmanay, the Fringe, Christmas markets, ski trips, secret parties, the Six Nations, fashion shows, god knows we love a good ball…the next big thing is always on our minds.

Cosy Hideaways

Yes we have a top drinking scene. We also have shit weather sometimes.

But it’s okay.

The people of Edinburgh have more than enough cosy coffee shops, libraries, cinemas, museums and pubs to get you through the dark days.

Head to the Brass Monkey lie down with a G&T and watch a movie. Stress relief at its best.

Or cosy up in Lovecrumbs with a coffee and your Macbook. Or a real book if you’re an edgy Edinburgh hipster type.

Better yet find some peace and quiet in one of Edinburgh’s galleries.

You can look intelligent, thoughtful and don’t have to interact with other humans if you don’t want to.

The Sports Stars

Katherine Grainger, Chris Hoy, Michael Jamieson, Gemma Gibbons, Andy Irvine. To name a few.

The University of Edinburgh topped the UK Universities medal table at the 2012 Olympics beating Oxford and Cambridge with our three gold medals.

That’s more gold medals than 53 countries won at the Olympics.

We would have been 26^th in the medal table had the uni entered as its own country.

Library Cat

Our library has it’s own cat.

It waits by the exit in the evenings, making late night stints in the library all the more bearable.