BOLTON is the home to the cheapest pint for students looking to save the pennies but still have a wild night out.

Bolton pubs can pull punters a pint for just £2.50.

London might have the highest number of nightlife spots, with over 1,300 places to party, but the pints in Bolton are exactly half as expensive as grabbing a cold one from down in London.

Although Bolton, with its 43 nightlife options might provide scrimping students with a pint for pinch, the town is not exactly the best student night out, according to new figures from I Saw it First.

Bolton was ranked on the average number of bars and clubs, the price of a pint, cost of a taxi, number of takeaways and safety score, to figure out just how much of a hole could be left in the average student's pocket by spending a night out on the tiles.

Bolton comes in joint first place for pints with Lancaster, while Birmingham got to the top of the podium for number of takeaways and St Andrews was voted the safest place to be as a nocturnal student.

But overall, Bolton is down in 20th place when it comes to the best spots for student nightlife in comparison to other towns and cities.

It is Yorkshire rival Huddersfield that wears the crown for the best university town, boasting a £3.05 pint, 163 takeaways and taxi fares starting from as low as £1.30.

At least Bolton did not find itself at the bottom of the table.

It was in fact historic Oxford which unfortunately took home the wooden spoon on that score, coming in last out of a huge 61 places compared.