A quarter (28%) of Brits admit that they still didn’t have a clue how to cook when they graduated from university, despite half (47%) insisting that their culinary skills improved during their time studying, according to new research revealed today. Two-thirds of graduates admit they had to prioritise price over quality (68%) and nutritional value (66%) when buying food as a university student, with three out of five (59%) claiming that limited budget was the single biggest factor which impacted their diet.
Almost a third (30%) of Brits reveal that they spent less than £3 per day on food while they were at university – leading just a quarter (26%) to believe their meals were balanced and only a fifth (19%) to claim they were healthy. To celebrate the launch of Two Point Campus, the management sim which tasks players with building and running the university campus of their dreams, SEGA and Two Point Studios surveyed over 2,000 graduates from across the UK to explore the gastronomic behaviour of university students.
Speed and efficiency are among the most important considerations for British students when choosing what to cook, leading a quarter (24%) of graduates to spend fewer than 15 minutes making a typical meal. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that a quarter (27%) relied on frozen food to get them through university, meanwhile microwave meals (25%), breakfast cereal at any time of day (24%) and tinned goods (24%) topped the polls for the most common foodstuffs devoured by students.
