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Our unparalleled research provides the higher education sector with up-to-date insight into student life.

Unite Applicant Index Report

Get to know this year’s university applicants in our 2024 Applicant Index - the only research to give each year’s applicants a voice as they prepare for university life.

Care and Learning in Higher Education

Immersive Experience | Our new commission report, by the Social Market Foundation, provides nine recommendations to improve support for care experienced and estranged students.

Living Black at University Commission Report web

Our new Commission report shares practical tips and resources for improving Black students’ accommodation experience.

Improving the transition to Higher Education

What challenges face a post-Covid generation of students, and how does this impact on their ability to adjust to independent living and university life? Written in collaboration with the Higher Education Student Support Champion Professor Edward Peck, this new report looks to answer these questions – and what we as a sector can do about it.

What is the 'Journey To A Million'?

Podcast | Following on from our latest Accommodation Matters episode ‘What does 1 million applicants mean for student accommodation?’, we now share Jenny Shaw’s full interview with Ben Jordan, Head of Policy at UCAS, about the UCAS ‘Journey To A Million’ essay series – sponsored by Unite Students and Knight Frank.

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Insights and Research Videos

Each year we carry out research to provide valuable insight into student accommodation and the wider student experience. As a leader in the sector, our aim is to provide a better understanding of current issues affecting students as well as the wider implications for the purpose-built student accommodation in the UK. Here we share our latest key findings.

The Climbing Cost of Living

Video - 1:06 | At Unite Students, we know that financial concerns can impact aspects of student life, including physical and mental health, relationships, studies and work.

Living Black at University

Video - 2:12 | Living Black at University is a major new report into Black students’ experience in UK student accommodation, commissioned by Unite Students and carried out by Halpin Partnership.

Students call for strong action on climate change

Video - 0:58 | Research by Unite Students, the UK’s largest provider of student accommodation, shows that students were more concerned about climate change than any other issue in 2021 – including the challenges of COVID-19.

Empty Nesters Report

Video - 0:56 | Independent research commissioned by Unite Students, the UK’s largest provider of student accommodation, and undertaken by Censuswide, shows that empty nest syndrome is hitting hard, with 98% of parents dropping off a child at university for the first time this autumn saying they have experienced extreme grief.

Neurodiversity and Student Accommodation

Video - 2:12 | Created in collaboration with a student-led organisation, 'An asset, not a problem: Meeting the needs of neurodivergent students' is a new report into the experience of students and applicants who are autistic and/or have ADHD. With a focus on the transition to university and day-to-day living in student accommodation, the report uses the words of students from Bristol University Neurodiversity Society (BUNS) to articulate their needs and make recommendations about how they could be better supported at university.

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