"Student Life in Hull" Kingston upon Hull by Djinn76

Kingston upon Hull Travel Guide: 282 reviews and 475 photos

The university of Hull

I've spent six months in 1999 at the University of Hull to prepare my thesis.
More information about this university from:
http://www.hull.ac.uk/home/index.html

I still don't know why but there is lots of international students in Hull. The atmosphere amongst them is excellent and they even have their own association, the ISA.
It is organising parties, dinner; trips,...
http://www.uniservity.net/club_homepage.asp?clubid=1020

Studying abroad is an experience I would warmly recommend.

I choose UK as a country to improve my English but it could have been a mistake, you would speak English wherever you go.

The city

This is mainly an industrial port that has been heavily bombed during WW2. The city is huge but the city centre is rather small. Unfortunately you won't find lots of touristic attractions there .
I would say the main ones are the Marina and the Humber bridge

So why staying there?

York, not Hull !

As a foreign student, let say the student life is pretty good and you don't really need a nice city to enjoy the pubs, clubs, parties... anyway the city centre is pretty far from the university ;-)

For a longer stay, the location is perfect. You can easily arrive from the continent using the ferry (you sleep one night on board and the day after you're there).
If someone comes to visit you, simply organise one day to York, a nice medieval town, this is really close and is the touristic place by definition.
From Hull, if you have a car, you can also see lots of nice place all around, York of course but also Leeds, Nottingham, Scarborough,...
Also why not organising a mini-trip to Scotland or even Ireland

Last but not least, if you compare it to other place in UK, life in Hull is pretty cheap.

Last visit to Kingston upon Hull: Jun 1999
Intro Updated Jan 1, 2003
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Norali Jan 5, 2005 at 11:38 AM

Can you believe it ? Even in my "graduat" years, I had had an Erasmus friend from Hull univerity. They "exchange" a lot over there. hahaha. yes, studying abroad is interesting.. that's what I did. ;-)
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Hanau93 Feb 1, 2004 at 7:28 PM

Thanks for your tour of Hull! I enjoyed it very much! Loved the picture of the street..
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jenniferchin Sep 17, 2003 at 5:28 AM

Nice pages :-) Am curious about what *nice surprise* did you get when walking in the city centre ...
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cielo85 Jan 21, 2003 at 7:39 PM

cooooool i love this street,must be a good choice to add to my coming europe trip list!!*s*
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dsantosh Jan 1, 2003 at 11:06 PM

Nice work..Highly useful