i did electronic engineering and outside of lectures I did pretty much zero work until a week before exams / thesis .... and still got a 2:1 easy. uni is a doss..... but... in the first year we had a shit load of lectures so i couldnt really have a job as well and same really for the other years - just enough lectures to stop me having a decent part time job that would have made a worthwhile impression on living costs... so the debts stack up as £4000 a year on student loans (bear in mind bristol is b*****d expensive to live in eg around £3000 in rent for a year, plus a grand tuition fees leaving almost zero to live on - subsidised by working hols) so for a 4 year course - you do the maths . . .. . . oh well - its deffinately worth doing if you want to.