3839Have you changed your diet due to financial pressure since going to university?There was a 50-50 split in the responses to this question, with exactly half of students saying that financial hardship had forced them to change the way they ate, and the other half saying it had not. This was a slight change on 2010, when fewer students (42%) said they had changed their eating habits. In this year's survey, women were slightly more likely than men to have altered their diet to match their financial situation (52% had, compared with 48% of male students), while first year students were also more likely to have done so (55% had). This may be because they had previously been eating meals in the family home, a conclusion that appears to be backed up by the finding that fewer than one in three (28%) of students who were still living with their parents had changed their diet, less than half the proportion of those in self-catered accommodation (of whom 60% had).Of those who had changed their diet, around two thirds (62%) said the result had been less healthy. However, the remaining 38% said they had managed to cut costs without eating less nutritious food. The proportion of students from outside Europe who had changed their diet but managed not to make health concessions was higher still, with almost half (49%) saying their new diet was just as healthy as the old.How many units of alcohol do you usually drink per week?The standard depiction of students as binge drinkers may have to be redressed following the finding that over half of those participating in the survey (51%) drank less than 10 units of alcohol a week - equivalent to around four and a half pints of beer. This is a slight increase in the last survey, when the figure was 49%, and what is more, over a quarter of respondents (26%) appear not to drink at all. Not all were so abstemious, of course, with a small minority (1%) reporting that they drank over 41 units a week (around 20 pints), while a slightly larger group (6% of respondents) drank between 21 and 40 units (10 to 20 pints). Men were far more likely to fall into these boozy categories than women (no women said they drank over 41 units a week, and just 3% drank over 21), while first year students were also more likely to be heavy drinkers than those in the second year of their studies (18% of freshers drank over 16 units a week, while the figure for second years was 12%). As in 2010, students from outside Europe were far more likely to say that they did not drink - 46% fell into this category.52% of students drink less than 10 units of alchol a week

3839Personal pressures What concerns or worries have you had at university?The order in which students' top three concerns are ranked has not changed since 2010, with anxiety about achieving the desired class of degree still top of their minds, followed by balancing academic, social and work commitments and, in third place, the heavy university workload.However, while the order has not altered, the prevalence of all three concerns has increased since the last survey. Almost three quarters of students (72%) now say they are worried about their class of degree, up from 69% two years ago. This concern is particularly common among female students, of whom 77% acknowledge it as a preoccupation, compared to 65% of their male peers. Worry about degree class also worsens as students get further through their degree course, with 76% of second year undergraduates worrying about it, compared with 65% of those in their first year, and for students at traditional universities (where 76% of students worry) than at modern institutions (68%).The second most frequently-cited concern is about juggling academic, social and work commitments, which now preoccupies 68% of students, up slightly on 2010 when the figure was 67%. This continues a trend that has seen concern on this front increase from 41% of students in 2004 to 60% in 2008. As in the last survey, students who have paid jobs during term-time are among those most likely to affected by this concern, with 76% citing it as a worry compared to 65% of those without jobs. The third key preoccupation for today's students is the heavy workload expected of them at university, something which gives 64% of the survey's respondents pause for thought, up from just 30% in 2004 and 62% in 2010. As with the other concerns, women are more likely to worry about this than men (69% and 57% do respectively), as are those in their second year (for whom the figure is 14 percentage points higher than first years at 69%). Perhaps surprisingly, law undergraduates have overtaken medical students as those most likely to worry about their workload - 73% of lawyers do compared to 70% of medics. In 2010 59% of law students cited this as a concern.20122012201220122012200820082008200820082004200420042004200472%68%64%56%47%70%60%60%49%43%61%41%30%48%33%Top five concerns (2004-2008-2012)Achieving desired degree classificationBalancing academic, social and work commitmentsHeavy university workloadFinding a job after graduationDay to day financial worries