Bristol University has said a surplus of students could be housed 15 miles away in Bath.
An “extraordinary” 75% of applicants to the university received high enough A-level results to be allocated a place, up from a pre-pandemic average of 46%.
The university said non-guaranteed applicants for 2021 may not receive university-allocated accommodation, adding: “If we do have a room available to offer, it is likely to be a shared room or accommodation in a neighbouring town or suburb, such as Bath.”
It believes there is space for 300 Bristol students in Bath’s existing student accommodation.
But Bath and North East Somerset council was alarmed at the prospect, pointing out that the city already had two universities that were both oversubscribed.
