eligibility for citizenship

[Mihai93]

I'm a 21-year-old Romanian citizen and I plan to study and eventually settle in the UK. I would also like to acquire British citizenship after I graduate, but I have a problem regarding the residence period: I read on the internet that if one stays more than 450 days outside the UK during the five/six-year period, they're disqualified from obtaining citizenship and, in my case, the subject I want to major in requires students to spend about 2 years outside the UK. So my question is if I take this course, will I become ineligible for citizenship? Or do these 2 years are counted as if I had lived in the UK because I'm a student in a British university?

[mavdi]

You won't be eligible.

[secret.simon]

See also Section 3 of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006

Continuity of residence
3.—(1) This regulation applies for the purpose of calculating periods of continuous residence in
the United Kingdom under regulation 5(1) and regulation 15.
(2) Continuity of residence is not affected by —
(a) periods of absence from the United Kingdom which do not exceed six months in total in
any year;
(b) periods of absence from the United Kingdom on military service; or
(c) any one absence from the United Kingdom not exceeding twelve months for an important
reason such as pregnancy and childbirth, serious illness, study or vocational training or an
overseas posting.
(3) But continuity of residence is broken if a person is removed from the United Kingdom under
regulation 19(3).

Regulation 15 is the regulation for Permanent Residence. You need one year of Permanent residence to get citizenship.