For many, university is remembered as a time full of messy house shares, raucous parties and bleary group debriefs the morning after the night before.
But it has now been revealed more Gen Z students than ever are giving up the chaotic joys of student digs to live with mum and dad instead, according to new figures.
Nearly a third of 18-year-old applicants in the UK for the academic year 2024-25 planned to stay at home, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) said.
This some 30 per cent figure is more than double that seen around 20 years ago, the Times reports - and also the highest recorded in this same timeframe.
In 2007, only 14 per cent of teens said they would not be moving out during their studies - and even more recently, in 2015, this figure had only risen to 21 per cent.
