It is "a university", and NOT "an university". The rule is simple. It helps you pronounce the noun more naturally. I'll explain: - "a" go before any consonant SOUNDING words, such as a book [buohk], a car [kar], a girl [guhrl], a boy [boi], a university [yunivuhrsiti], a user [yiuhsuhr] etc. - "an" go before any vowel SOUNDING words, such as an umbrella [uhmbrela], an airplane [ehrplain], an orphanage [orfanadz], an REM sleep [ahr-i-em], etc. All the [*] I use are just to demonstrate the point of the sounds. While I'm at it, the same rules work with how you pronounce "the" [the] and "the" [thee]. Examples: the [the] name, the [the] book, the [thee] other, the [thee] orange

The correct way is "a university"

A university. :)

You'd be right :) It is a university student, not "an."