Newcastle University is officially the laziest university

A brand new survey carried out by Web Blind has outed Newcastle students as being the joint laziest bunch in the UK.

The results were based on the responses of 5,089 students showing the average Newcastle student to miss up to ten compulsory lectures a month. Good effort team.

Newcastle ranked the laziest alongside Southampton. Sheffield Hallam and Plymouth ranked second and third respectively. Leeds came out as the least lazy university.

According to the survey, British university students are three times more likely to miss uni if they are living on campus rather than at home with their parents.

And though surely you've guessed it, the top reasons given for missing lectures and seminars were "a lack of sleep" (fair), hangovers (also fair) and "early morning lectures" (again, fair).

Though not the most flattering of results, we still beat every other university, so I guess we're all winners. Catching a few Z's in between the library and nights out is not only resourceful, it's also why we're so much fun. You do you Newcastle!

Photo Credit: Aaron Shaquille Carlton – Swingers