(Ask your university about student discounts.) However, switching to a 13.3in MacBook Pro involves sacrifices.
Professional photo editors often buy the top-end 15in MacBook Pro, but it’s not really worth £2,699 for student use. In fact, you should add those to any laptop used for sustained work. You will need to add a Type cover, and I’d recommend buying a good USB keyboard and a Bluetooth mouse as well. You can get an extremely portable system with a great screen, an Intel Core i7, 16GB of memory and a 512GB SSD for a student price of £1,329.30. If you really want a pen, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 is your best bet. Some photographers like to use high-resolution pens – as supplied with Microsoft Surfaces and Apple iPad Pros – and some like Wacom tablets, but many others just use mice. Touch-screens are handy for fat-finger navigation, but they don’t add anything for photo-editing purposes. There are advantages to being part of the majority. However, it would be worth knowing how many of your fellow students use each system. In general, I recommend that people stick to what they know, because it takes a long time to become proficient in a new operating system. These run on both PCs and Macs, so you have a choice. Photography students typically use Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, mainly Photoshop and Lightroom. A refurbished ThinkPad X1 Carbon would be a good portable option with a good quality screen. It might be better to buy a really good desktop and a cheap laptop. They can also handle more memory, bigger hard drives and faster graphics cards, and they are easier to upgrade.
Desktop PCs can run hotter, faster processors than laptops. Note that a good desktop will always beat a good laptop.
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