With Fresher’s Week over for another year, the UK’s newest Uni recruits have managed to chomp their way through a whopping 5 million slices of pizza, 840,000 kebabs and leaving more than 1 million empty pint glasses in their wake.
Fresher’s Week is a notorious for new students to party hard and to let themselves go with no hassle from their parents. UCAS stated 419,627 applicants had a place confirmed this year which was an increrase of 44,523.

Just Eat, the UK’s leading online takeaway ordering site noticed a huge rise in takeaway orders from student halls and decided to take a closer look.

Based on averages Just-Eat found from surveying 1,628 Freshers, here is Fresher’s Week in numbers:

Takeaways – take aways are an essential part of any student’s diet. Pizzas Have always been popular with students however this year they proved to be a big success, kebabs are obviously still popular in any students diet:

Pizza the average student ate 12 slices of pizza this Fresher’s Week, totalling 5,035,524 slices of pizza (based on the intake of 419,627 applicants this year)

Alcohol – students wouldn’t be students if they didn’y overindulge on their first week of freedom from their parents:

- Pints the male fresher population an average drank 6 pints a night which means a grand total of 1,258,881 pints were finished off over the week
– Spirits – females drank an average of 34 measures throughout the week creating a whopping total of 7,133,659 spirit measures
– Shots – a total of 5,874,788 slammers were shotted during fresher’s meaning 14 shots were drunk per fresher

Paracetamol the dreaded hangover, what would true night be without having to deal with a hangover in the morning? Paracetamol companies will be pleased with students claiming taking an average of 10 tablets so an amazing 262,267 packs have been consumed throughout the week

Fancy dress outfits Fancy dress is always a big hit a University as this year was no different. 3 in 4 fresher’s said they dressed up with an average of 4 costumes used throughout the week. At this rate, 1,258,881 guises were worn by apparently drunken students.