The population of the town is small, only about 17000 people, and nearly one-third of them are faculty and students of St. Andrews University. This town is connected with major cities by highways.
There are various buses in the town center, which reach the school and Dundee's student apartment, Leuchars railway station and Fife area respectively.
The railway service in the town stops at 1969. It takes 5- 10 minutes to get to the nearest Leuchars railway station by train, and trains to Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow are also convenient.
In addition, the town is famous as the birthplace of golf, not only because the Royal Classical Golf Club was established here in 1754, but also because the oldest British Open among the four Grand Slams of golf is held here every year.
St Andrews straddles a rugged promontory in the North Sea. There are four departments, consisting of three colleges and eighteen colleges. For more than a thousand years, this town has been a gathering place for bishops and emperors, saints and martyrs, students and tourists. The town is surrounded by the sea on three sides. No matter where you go, you can smell the sea, blowing the gentle sea breeze, watching the blue water and the seagulls passing by from time to time. St Andrews Castle has experienced a long period of wind and rain, leaving only broken walls, and the ground is mostly falling stones. The most distinctive local building should be St Andrews Cathedral, which has a history of nearly a thousand years. It is like a huge memorial arch, standing on the seashore, with historical stones at its feet.