Travelling to Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth University often provide an airport meeting coach service for International Students for on a designated date from Birmingham International Airport. Detailed information will be available on their website.
There are good rail links from all the major UK airports, and most students use the train to travel from the airport to Aberystwyth.
For more information, go to the Aberystwyth University website.
What’s it like to live in Aberystwyth? A favourite holiday destination of the Victorians, you’ll find that Aberystwyth has everything you’d expect of a British picture postcard village: colourful cottages, rolling green hills and even a castle! Thanks to the university and the Arts Centre, you’ll find plenty to keep you entertained and–if you venture out to the countryside–some breathtaking walks to be done. Did you know that Wales has more castles per square mile than anywhere else in the world? That’s a legacy of fighting off the English and then subsequently being oppressed by them but, hey ho, it gives us all a chance to scamper about pretending we’re in Game of Thrones. Just one word of warning on Aberystwyth, it takes quite a long time to get to anything resembling a big city…