The cheapest standard self-catered room King's College London (KCL) publishes costs £200 a week, up to £433 for the dearest (2026/27). The maximum maintenance loan outside London is £10,830 a year — £208 a week across a full year.
| Cheapest self-catered room | £200/week |
| Dearest standard room | £433/week |
| Typical contract | 40 weeks |
| Cheapest room, whole contract | £8,000 |
| Dearest room, whole contract | £17,320 |
| Max maintenance loan (outside London, 2026/27) | £10,830/year |
| Cheapest hall as share of max loan | 74% |
Highest rents in this set. Every King's residence is self-catered; individual residence pages each carry a '2026/27 prices' table with room type, weekly price, contract length and annual price (e.g. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/accommodation/residences/wolfson-house). Low = Wolfson House non-en-suite in a 14-bed flat £200.00 (40wk, £8,000); Wolfson 4-bed flat £223, Great Dover Street en-suite £259, Orchard Lisle & Iris Brook non-en-suite £263. High for a standard non-studio room = City/Vine Street en-suite £433.00 (51wk, PG-only); Battersea en-suite £414 (51wk); highest widely-available UG en-suite rates are Moonraker Point large en-suite £399 and Atlas large en-suite £404. Studios excluded: £334-£562 (City large studio £562). Separately, means-tested King's Affordable Accommodation Scheme (KAAS) rooms are capped at £155-£169/wk across most residences — a bursary tier, not open-market pricing. Typical contract 40 weeks; 48 and 51-week options also offered.
Take the maximum loan, pay for the cheapest hall, and £2,830 remains for the year — £54 a week across 52 weeks for food, transport, books and everything else. Most students don't get the maximum loan: entitlement tapers with household income, so the real gap is usually wider and made up by part-time work or family.
The 11 universities nearest King's College London (KCL) on cheapest published room, plus the cheapest and dearest of all 37. The full table has every one.
| University | From | To | % of max loan |
|---|---|---|---|
| University College London | £154 | £403 | 57% |
| Coventry University | £154 | £232 | 55% |
| University of Reading | £166 | £227 | 61% |
| Durham University | £169 | £226 | 61% |
| Aston University | £172 | £178 | 70% |
| Imperial College London | £174 | £425 | 63% |
| Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | £177 | £300 | 62% |
| University of Liverpool | £177 | £234 | 64% |
| University of East Anglia (UEA) | £178 | £210 | 68% |
| King's College London (KCL) | £200 | £433 | 74% |
| London School of Economics (LSE) | £226 | £391 | 79% |
| University of Bath | £98 | £295 | 34% |
University-published self-catered rooms run £200–£433 a week for 2026/27, on contracts of about 40 weeks.
The maximum loan (outside London) covers the cheapest hall with £2,830 a year to spare — but only at the maximum, which most students don't get.
No — these are the university's own halls, from its own price list. Private halls and shared houses vary more in both directions; the university figures are the ones that are actually published and comparable.
Rents read 18 August 2026 from kcl.ac.uk; loan maxima from GOV.UK. Loan entitlement depends on household income and where the student lives, not where the university is.
Rents checked 19 August 2026 from each university's own pricing pages; loans from GOV.UK. This is information, not financial advice.