Almost one in four students are lonely most or all of the time, according to new research.
That is four times worse than the one in 20 adults who said they were similarly lonely in the most recent data for the general population.
The findings on student wellbeing are part of a wider snapshot of experiences of being at university in the UK.
Taylor Jones threw up and had panic attacks because of how lonely he was in the first three months of university.
"I had people I spoke to in my classes but outside of my classes, I would spend time sitting in the car or sitting in the toilets, waiting for any free time to be over," Taylor told BBC News.
