Living in Bath

Your perfect home away from home

The City

Although Bath lays claim to world-famous historic sites, it retains a small-town feel. While studying at ASE, the city of Bath becomes your campus. Our student houses are centrally located in safe, cosmopolitan neighbourhoods, offering daily opportunities to explore the city on foot and connect with the community.

Student life in Bath

Bath has a population of around 100,000, and about one in five residents is in full-time higher education.

The city is renowned for its great range of shops, cafés, pubs, and restaurants catering to students with various 'specials' and discounts. The locales act as meeting places where you can enjoy a pint or a 'cuppa' and connect with Bath’s residents (and the city’s many international visitors). There are spots around town for all types of music, theatre, film, poetry evenings, and reading groups.

The ASE team organises weekly events and can link you with local volunteering agencies, clubs, sports teams, and Bath Spa University societies.

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ASE’s Study Centre

The ASE study centre, Nelson House, is located in the heart of Bath, within 20 minutes walking distance of all of our student residences.

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Housing and Meals

ASE students live in handsome town houses and flats (apartments) throughout the centre of Bath.

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A History of Bath

A video series featuring ASE’s own city of Bath guide and guru, Mr Andrew Butterworth.

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Beyond Bath

ASE students regularly use their time with us to see more of Britain, both on ASE-organised day trips and through independent travel.

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Just an easy stroll from your residence, you’ll encounter picturesque first-century Roman Baths, the fifteenth-century Abbey, galleries, theatres, and museums. Among Bath's many cafés, pubs, and restaurants is the famous Pump Room, which tempts visitors in for tea, coffee, cakes and – for the bold – a taste of the naturally hot spring waters.

Watch our Bath history video series, hosted by ASE legend Andrew Butterworth. 

The dreaming spires and Shakespeare's birthplace

You’ll spend an entire week at the University of Oxford, and three days in Shakespeare’s home town, Stratford-upon-Avon, learning all about The Bard and watching the Royal Shakespeare Company in action.

A woman in a yellow jumpsuit standing on a cobblestone street between two white, columned buildings, with a hot air balloon in the sky above.
Group of seven young adults posing on a city street, smiling and making gestures, with a stone building and a restaurant sign in the background.
A young woman with red hair wearing a brown winter coat standing on a cobblestone street in front of Georgian townhouses, with several people and parked cars in the background.
A smiling woman in a black dress, yellow scarf, purple jacket, and black knee-high socks standing outside in front of a historic building with a landscaped garden, seen through an ornate doorway with a stained glass arch above.
A man and woman posing by a river with a historic stone bridge and colorful buildings in Florence, Italy, in the background.
Group of seven young adults smiling and posing for a photo at a party or social gathering, with a "WELCOME" sign illuminated in the background.
A young woman with red hair, glasses, and a blue backpack smiling on a city street with shops and a chalkboard sign advertising pub food, beers, wines, and burgers.
Two smiling people, a woman with sunglasses and a man with a phone, standing together outdoors on a stone pathway in front of a green lawn and a large historic building, on a sunny day.
A group of five young adults standing in a lush green meadow with trees and hills in the background. They are smiling and casually dressed, enjoying a sunny day.
Three young women taking a selfie on a rooftop during sunset with a city skyline, including a prominent church or cathedral, in the background.

For more information on the city of Bath, see Visit Bath.

“Bath is a charming city, rich with history and life. It’s the perfect place for college students... and for people in general!”
— Bethany Frankel, Gettysburg College

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