Open minds. Open doors.

Campus life

A campus that stays open

Two hundred societies, forty sports clubs, a concert hall, a farm, and a library that never actually closes during term.

Life here

Everything outside the timetable

Your Associate Degree is two years of your life, not just a qualification. Here is what fills the rest of the week.

Somewhere to live

Six halls of residence and 4,200 rooms, all within twenty minutes of teaching. Guaranteed for first years who apply by 31 July.

Sport for everyone

Forty clubs from rowing to futsal, a fifty metre pool and free casual sport sessions that need no membership and no talent.

Two hundred societies

Debating, robotics, film, six student newspapers, a radio station and a society for people who like maps. Start your own in a week.

Wellbeing and support

Same-week counselling appointments, a disability service, a hardship fund and a 24 hour listening line run with the students’ union.

Careers from year one

Paid internships, employer mentoring, CV clinics and a careers service you keep using for three years after you graduate.

A greener campus

Carbon neutral operations, a student-run farm and market garden, repair cafes and free bike hire for anyone who lives on site.

A day here

What Tuesday actually looks like

Composite, but honest — built from what second year students told us in the last survey.

08:15

Breakfast in the Quad cafe, which does a decent flat white and a terrible croissant.

09:00

Lecture, then a seminar of eighteen people where you are expected to have done the reading.

13:00

Society lunch, a shift at the student newspaper, or an hour in the pool.

15:30

Laboratory, studio or clinic. This is the part that turns theory into something you can do.

18:00

Dinner in halls, a public lecture, or the debating society arguing about something unresolvable.

21:00

The library. Still open. Still full. The vending machine on level three is the good one.

Student voices

In their own words

Four students, four routes in, four completely different experiences of the same campus.

I moved here from a town with no university at all. The hardest part was the first fortnight, and the buddy scheme got me through it. Now I run the scheme.

I study part time in the evenings while working full time. Nobody has ever made me feel like a second class student for it, and the library being open until one in the morning genuinely matters.

The societies are the reason I stayed. I arrived shy, joined the debating society by accident, and I am now the person who argues with the vice-chancellor at open meetings.

I have a disability and I was worried about access. Everything I needed was arranged before I arrived, without me having to explain myself six times. That is rarer than it should be.

Support

Nobody is left to work it out alone

Support services are free, confidential and available to every registered student.

Counselling and mental health

Same-week first appointments, group programmes and a listening line staffed every night of the year.

Disability and inclusion

Support plans agreed before you arrive, assistive technology, note takers and exam adjustments.

Money advice

A hardship fund, emergency grants, budgeting advice and help with benefits and housing costs.

International student office

Visa advice, airport pickup, a welcome week and year-round help with anything immigration related.

Spend a day with us

Student-led tours run every Wednesday and Saturday. You choose what you want to see, including the halls and the vending machine on level three.