THOUSANDS of students have signed up to a sugar daddy site hoping to get their tuition fees paid.

The sleazy roll call includes 1,019 at Cambridge, almost one in 20 of those at the university.

The total is second only to the University of Kent, where the dating site Seeking Arrangement says it has 1,056 students signed up.

Site CEO Brandon Wade said: “Young people understand the importance of a degree but they can no longer depend on traditional means to get by.”

The website offers to link hard-up young people with well-off sugar daddies and, in some cases, mummies.

The older punters — average age 41 — pay for a relationship on terms agreed with a sugar baby, who can net an average of £2,900 a month.

But Jake Butler, of student advisory site Save The Student, urged caution.

He said: “Students are being forced to seek ways of making money they wouldn’t have if they were financially comfortable.”