Student Accommodation in Leicester.
Leicester is a cosmopolitan city with its many cultures reflected in its restaurants, clubs, shops and festivals. The 700 year old market is one of the largest covered markets in Europe. The city centre and other areas provide a wide choice of shops. Students make up over 10% of the population in term time, giving the city a vibrant and youthful feel. This is reflected in a wide choice of social and leisure facilities including many continental style café bars, lively clubs and pubs.
The University's reputation for physics and space science helped Leicester gain the National Space Science Centre. It includes the Challenger Learning Centre, the first such centre outside North America which has recently opened on a site adjacent to the University.
Leicester is a green city with Victoria Park, which borders the University campus, and of course the University's Botanic Garden adjacent to the halls of residence. Further a field there is Rutland Water, Europe's largest man-made reservoir, which offers windsurfing, canoeing, sailing, fishing and bird watching. It is appropriate that in the city where Thomas Cook invented the holiday excursion, tourism should now support 3,000 jobs.
Student District
