Budget for mature student living expenses

I spent about £300 a month for a flat share when I did a Masters aged 51, plus half the council tax (I shared with a non student) plus half the utilities, which were probably more expensive than they might otherwise have been as it was in Aberdeen during the very cold winter of 2010/11. Other living costs were similar to what I had spent while I was working, although I did pay £2 a day to park in the streets near the university on the days that I drove in.



I didn't do much socialising as I found the demands of the course quite high and nearly all of the other students were a lot younger than me so our interests didn't overlap much.