Roehampton University has come first in a table designed to find the most amorous seat of learning in the country, according to a recent poll.

Students at the university have, according to the University Sex League table, bedded an average of 6.32 partners since joining the campus.

The result means a meteoric rise for the university which has jumped from 99th last year to 1st in this year's sex rankings.

Many students have been asking what or who is responsible for the dramatic surge.

Ciaran North, a student at the university, said: "A large amount of it is already being attributed to this year’s freshers. This is a fair argument.

"If you are looking purely at the stats, you have to accept that something must have changed since last year, and why not blame it all on the freshers.

"After all, they are paying all that extra money to go to university, so why would they not make the absolute most of it?

"But there are alternatives. Maybe it took our second years a bit of time to settle in to their rhythm?"

Another theory is that with a ratio of one man to three women, the male students have been making hay while the sun shines.

Hot on the heels of Roehampton was Liverpool Hope (6.06), the Open University (5.91), the University of Dundee (5.55) and Edge Hill (5.53).

Coming last were the hard working students of Salford, who have only slept with an average of 1.35 people during their university careers so far.

Bangor, who topped the table last year, failed to live up to their name this year and slipped to a underwhelming 39th place.

Not surprisingly the more successful students from the "red brick" universities did not fare too well in the sex table.

Oxford came in 33rd place with a score of 4.17, Cambridge came 44th with 3.92 and LSE came 18th with 4.68.