Newcastle University ninth in student drinking tables

Students drink over 20 alcoholic units a week on average according to an online survey

After the University of Liverpool, Newcastle is the red-brick university that drinks the most in the country Photography: Moises Bodrossian

A recent survey has shown students at Newcastle University are the ninth heaviest drinkers in the country.

The results released by the websitestudentbeans.com asked students at different universities how many units they drank in a week. Over 2,000 students from 68 different universities took part in the survey.

The survey shows that Newcastle students drink an average of 21.2 alcoholic units a week. This amounts to an average of seven and a half pints of lager, nine large glasses of white wine or eight trebles in a week.

Buckinghamshire New University were placed above with 21.5 units with De Montfront University below (21.0)

Students were also asked a variety of other questions. For example, 20% said that they would not be able to survive a term at university without alcohol and 53% missed a lecture or seminar because they had drunk too much the night before.

The results also showed that 59% experienced memory loss whilst drinking, 33% had been injured, 48% had walked home alone, 37% had not know how they had got home on a night out and 25% had experienced a ‘one night stand’.

Leeds Metropolitan University returned the highest average with students averaging 26.7 a week, followed by the University of Liverpool with 26.6.

At the bottom of the table is the University of Salford with an average of 5.9 units, closely followed by the University of Herefordshire (8.9 units). Wales featured prominently in the survey, with UWIC and the University of Glamorgan featuring in the top five, with both the University of Bath and Bath Spa University in the top ten.

Northumbria came in 31st, with an average of 18.4, with North-East counterparts Durham in 45th (16.5). In terms of the Oxbridge battle Cambridge came higher in 51st (14.7) with Oxford in 59th (13.8).

When asked which celebrity students would most like to have a drink with, the majority said Stephen Fry and Charlie Sheen in second and third