If university students didn’t have enough to worry about with tuition fees at a high of £9,250, post-graduation employment holds even more uncertainty. The amount of British students seeking Sugar Daddies and Mommies to help alleviate some of that stress grew to 475,320 in 2018.
The value of an education is undeniable, but students aiming for first-class degrees have been overwhelmed in recent years by continuous tuition increases. Furthermore, new legislation now allows universities to raise fees annually until 2020. It’s easy to see why 475,320 students in the UK are seeking wealthy benefactors to help offset education costs—bringing the worldwide total to four million.
SeekingArrangement, the world’s largest Sugar Daddy dating site, releases today its annual findings on the Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Schools. These are the universities in the UK where the most students registered for the website during 2018. Dropout rates for UK students have risen for the third year in a row.
Meanwhile students are struggling to find careers that are appropriate for their education and skill level, with over five percent of new graduates failing to gain employment within six months of graduating.
Sugar Baby students receive an average monthly allowance of £2910, which is Ranking University New Sign-up 2018 Student Total 2018 1 University of Arts London 218 845 2 University of Manchester 180 937 3 University College London 169 314 4 King’s College London 139 450 5 University of Westminster 158 959 6 Cardiff University 153 201 7 Manchester Metropolitan University 152 518 8 University of Cambridge 145 1019 9 University of Leeds 127 728 10 University of Nottingham 126 819 11 University of Kent 106 1056 12 University of Oxford 101 340 13 Glasgow Calendonian University 99 700 14 University of Liverpool 92 197 15 University of Exeter 90 682 16 University of Portsmouth 83 749 17 University of St. Andrews 82 749 18 University of Edinburgh 81 334 19 Queens University of Belfast 80 582 20 University of Bimingham 78 214 Seeking.com Mutually Beneficial Relationships® double the potential amount one can earn working a part-time job at the national minimum wage.
“With little regard from the institutions of the student’s inability to pay increasing tuition and living costs in the UK, university students are being forced to find alternative methods to fund their educations,” says founder and CEO of SeekingArrangement Brandon Wade. “Young people understand the importance of a degree and want to achieve their educational goals, but they can no longer depend on traditional means to get through school.”
