Freshers is a reality documentary series that airs on

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. The series follows a group of

freshers A freshman, fresher, first year, or frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions. Ara ...

in their early days at

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, showing how they adapt to life away from home, exploring how they make friends and study. The first series was filmed in 2013 at the University of Bedfordshire and its success led ITV to renew it for a second series. The follow-up series was filmed at Swansea University in

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at the start of the 2014–15 academic year.

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