Life Here
More Than a Place to Study
A campus that stays busy long after lectures end — societies, sport, studios, and somewhere decent to eat between them. Everything within a ten-minute walk.
A real community
Eighty student-run societies and thirty sports teams — whoever you are, something here already fits.
Everything in reach
Halls, library, labs, sports centre and the union, all within a ten-minute walk of each other.
Open around the clock
A 24-hour library and a campus that barely sleeps during term, with lit routes and a walk-home service.
Your Campus
One Site, Everything in Reach
Our campus is compact by design. Halls, library, labs, sports centre and the students union sit within a ten-minute walk of each other — less time commuting between buildings, more time actually using them.
The campus is open around the clock during term, with staffed reception, lit routes and a walk-home service every night until two in the morning.
Around Campus
A Look Around Our Campus
Six corners of a campus that rarely stands still.
The Union
Run By Students, For Students
The students union runs the societies, the bar, the campus radio station and the representation that keeps the university honest. It is independent, elected, and it has changed real policy here.
- Elected officers. Five full-time sabbatical officers, elected each spring by the whole student body.
- A seat at the table. Student representatives sit on every faculty board and on the university senate.
- Advice that is independent. Free, confidential advice on academic appeals, housing and money — separate from the university.
The 24-hour library? That came from a union campaign two years ago. This is a place where students actually shape how things work — you just have to turn up and say something.
Student Voices
What Living Here Is Really Like
Three students on the parts of campus life a prospectus tends to skip.
I joined the climbing society in freshers week knowing nobody. Two years later I am the one running the beginners sessions on a Tuesday night.
Everything being ten minutes apart sounds like a small thing until you have a 9am lecture and a 6pm rehearsal on the same day. It gives you your evenings back.
I was worried about moving countries on my own. The halls put international and home students in the same flats, and by week two that had sorted itself out.
Getting Started
What Your First Week Looks Like
Welcome week is designed so that by the following Monday, nothing is unfamiliar.
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Saturday
Move-in day
Arrive any time between nine and six. Student helpers meet you at the car, and your flatmates will mostly have arrived the same day.
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Sunday
Campus and city tour
A walking tour of the campus in the morning and the city in the afternoon, finishing at the union for the first social of the year.
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Monday
Meet your faculty
Course introductions, your timetable, and the first meeting with the personal tutor who will stay with you for the whole degree.
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Wednesday
The societies fair
All eighty societies and thirty sports clubs in one hall. Most people leave having signed up to four and stuck with two.
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Friday
First teaching week ends
By now you have met your cohort, found the library, and worked out which coffee on campus is the good one.
Living Here
Accommodation and Costs
Weekly rates for university halls, inclusive of utilities, contents insurance and unlimited broadband.
Contracts run for 40 weeks for undergraduates and 51 weeks for postgraduates. First-year students who accept an offer by the deadline are guaranteed a place.
Come and See For Yourself
Book an open day, tour the campus and meet the people who make it what it is.