Everyone knows that the first year of uni isn’t about learning academia. It’s about learning the exact amount of vodka cokes you can consume before you forget all the lyrics to Brat. Students across the UK are revving up for 2025’s Freshers’ Week. But be warned: You could get into serious trouble with your uni if your parties are too loud. Here are the 30 UK unis which punish the most students for having noisy parties.
Erm, so it’s actually quite common for people who have the bad luck of living near students to lodge official complaints to the unis about excessive noise. Sleep researchers from MattressNextDay dug up the exact amount of complaints that unis get about this. Brookes students are apparently the most disruptive in the UK (which I probably could have guessed, tbh). Oxford Brookes University has received a whopping 5,307 complaints about noisy students over the last five years. The University of Edinburgh and the University of Surrey weren’t far behind – with 3,706 and 3,060 complaints respectively. God, what are the students getting up to there?
Meh, who needs to go to 9ams anyway?
Some UK unis are much stricter about punishing students for noisy parties than other unis are. Like, at King’s College London, three quarters of noise complaints led to the uni taking disciplinary action against students.
So, here are the 30 UK unis where students are punished for noisy parties the most. This is based on how many noise complaints led to disciplinary action between 2020 and 2025.
30. University of Warwick – 26 complaints
29. Robert Gordon University – 30 complaints
28. University of Kent – 36 complaints
27. Heriot-Watt University – 41 complaints
26. Canterbury Christ Church University – 60 complaints
25. University of Exeter – 76 complaints
Well, there’s barely anywhere to go out in Exeter, so I guess you have to have a rave at home instead?
24. University of Nottingham – 79 complaints
23. Swansea University – 80 complaints
22. University of Southampton – 97 complaints
21. Royal Holloway, University of London – 100 complaints
20. London South Bank University – 102 complaints
19. Edinburgh Napier University – 104 complaints
18. University of St Andrews – 106 complaints
17. Southampton Solent University – 107 complaints
16. King’s College London (KCL) – 129 complaints
15. University of Portsmouth – 136 complaints
14. University of the West of England (UWE) – 149 complaints
13. University of Essex – 169 complaints
12. Queen Mary University of London – 182 complaints
11. Newcastle University – 196 complaints
10. Oxford Brookes University – 199 complaints
9. Loughborough University – 308 complaints
8. University of Ulster – 310 complaints
7. University of Manchester – 318 complaints
People who survived Fallowfield house parties deserve medals
6. University of Sheffield – 334 complaints
5. University of Surrey – 362 complaints
4. University of East London – 363 complaints
3. University of Bristol – 375 complaints
2. Lancaster University – 476 complaints
1. Queen’s University Belfast – 696 complaints
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