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ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS :
St Andrews is Scotland's first University and the third oldest in the UK. For
almost six centuries, they have proudly upheld the tradition of academic
excellence, attracting scholars of international repute and students from all
over the world.
Today, they continue to offer the latest in teaching and research, all within a
superbly picturesque mediaeval setting. Although St Andrews is not a campus
University, it has grown and developed with the town and is now comfortably
integrated.
Owing to the size of St Andrews, students feel they belong here and enjoy the
benefits of studying at a highly residential University where academic and
social lives intermingle.
HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY :
 Founded
in 1413, St Andrews is the oldest university in Scotland. By the middle of the
sixteenth century the University had three colleges - St Salvator's (1450), St
Leonard's (1511), and St Mary's (1538): the buildings of St Mary's College and
St Salvator's Chapel both date from this period.
The 16th to 18th centuries saw a period of mixed fortunes for the University.
During this time St Salvator's and St Leonard's Colleges joined to form the
United College which still survives in a greatly enlarged form.
In the 19th century the University made considerable progress in developing
teaching and research in the Arts, Divinity and the Biological and Physical
Sciences. In 1897 the University was joined by a new academic centre in Dundee
and with it gained notable achievements in Medical and Applied Science. This
association ended in 1967 with the foundation of a separate University of
Dundee.
The University history, its personalities and its teaching practices can be
traced through the collections of documents, art works, furniture, laboratory
equipment and specimens that it has accumulated in its Museum collections.
INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS :
The University of St Andrews welcomes students from around the world and their
student community is becoming increasingly diverse. Approximately 20% of their
student body is from overseas with some 1,000 undergraduates representing more
than 75 different nationalities. At St Andrews there are students from almost
every region of Europe and North America. Others arrive from Japan, Taiwan,
China, Australia, Malaysia, Africa, India, the West Indies . . . the list goes
on.
ACCOMMODATION:
The University of St Andrews is proud of the variety and range of accommodation
on offer to students. The commitment to provide accommodation at a reasonable
cost has been balanced with the need to maintain the properties and resource the
improvements necessary to keep pace with modern standards e.g. a telephone in
every room and the option for each room to be networked to the University
system.
Accommodation options
The accommodation options for single students include both catered and
self-catering (cooking for oneself), in standard and ensuite (with shower and
toilet) rooms. Each Hall of Residence varies in size and character from the
older building to the very modern.
Facilities
Each study bedroom is provided with a bed, wardrobe, desk, chair and bookcase or
book shelving, duplicated for each resident in the case of a shared room. Fewer
than half of entrant undergraduate students are expected to share a room in
their first year.
The residence fee includes heat, light and power, telephone line and data point
in all accommodation and the provision and change of bed linen in catered
residences. Each of the residential units has central heating, laundry
facilities for the washing and ironing of personal laundry, and a computer room.
In the Hall of Residence the individual rooms are cleaned. In the student houses
the individual students are responsible for cleaning their own accommodation and
keeping the house in a presentable condition.
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