Student Campaign

megabus.com offers students the chance to travel to over 50 destinations in the UK from as little as £1 + 50p booking fee!
With networks throughout the UK, megabus travels in and out of many popular student destinations, including Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Cambridge, Reading, Oxford, Cardiff and Exeter (amongst many others).

It’s a difficult time out there for students. Securing a quality education is becoming more and more costly and many of you are facing a balancing act - juggling education with part or even full time employment!
According to ‘Which1' students now face average outgoings of nearly £200 a week, of which £75 goes towards accommodation costs. Factor in the rising costs of tuition fees (now around £3,000 per annum in the UK) and it’s understandable why the cries of “I’m skint” may be heard reverberating around student halls.

On top of these costs are those extra luxuries that some students are still lucky enough to benefit from, such as holidays and cars. According to the RAC cars can cost, on average, £5539 a year to operate! That’s the equivalent of £15 a day and costs for insurance, maintenance and tax are all rising.

Of course, students have many needs to travel such as research for courses, meeting up with family, visiting old and new friends and social trips, such as festivals and gigs.
The importance of getting out and about, socialising with friends and family and connecting with possible employers is highlighted even further by the current economic market, where everyday learning is becoming a battle, surrounded by talk of rising unemployment rates (even higher for graduates than the UK average) and escalating costs of living.

For those of you who want and need to get and about, who perhaps don’t have the luxury of a car or are trying to cut back on the rising petrol and vehicle costs, there are cheap travel options available!
megabus.com is one great travel alternative, where coach and rail travel is available throughout the UK from as little as £1 + 50p booking fee.
The simple and easy to use online format allows you to search for travel pick up and drop off points and book online.

Since its first launch in 2003 megabus.com has catered to the needs of students wallets by offering low cost inter city travel from as little as £1 + 50p booking fee, all available through a quick and simple online service. Staying true to the needs of the student market megabus.com continues to offer these low cost prices, reinvesting money into the fleet allocation to improve the services and extend the destinations it can offer to students.

megabus.com now offers over 500 daily departures to over 50 destinations and has extended its services to include travel by coach (megabus.com), train (megatrain.com) and linked coach and rail (meagbusplus.com- linking the south to the midlands).
Destinations are covered throughout the North, South, West and East of the UK, all of which have great sights and sounds for students to explore (some of them are even free*!!) Examples include;

• Glasgow: The University of Glasgow- Glasgow Film Festival- Glasgow Art Fair- International Jazz Festival
• Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Edinburgh Hogmanay - International Science Festival
• Newcastle: Newcastle University - Northumbria University - AV Festival - The shoot out film festival
• Leeds: Leeds University - Leeds Music Festival
• Liverpool: The University of Liverpool- Liverpool John Moores University -Liverpool Hope University - Liverpool Performing Arts Festival
• Manchester: The University of Manchester - Manchester Metropolitan University- Manchester Jazz Festival - Manchester Markets
• London: University of London - Kings College London- London Burlesque Festival - The Mayor Thames Festival
• Cardiff: Cardiff University - Cardiff Law School - International Soundtrack Film Festival
• Newquay: The New Quay music festival- Newquay surf, skate and music festival

Megabus tickets can be booked up to six weeks in advance and the sooner you book the cheaper the travel will be. So grab a bargain ticket and get yourself out there!

* Not all featured events are free.