About the Cornwall Campus
At our innovative Cornwall Campus near Falmouth we offer a wide range of degree programmes in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and engineering. With a population of around 4,000 students, the campus offers a friendly, welcoming atmosphere where it’s easy to make new friends, and where staff and students know each other well.
The stunning main buildings on campus have been equipped to deliver the very best in learning and teaching facilities, with teaching labs, lecture theatres and seminar rooms equipped with the latest technologies. The state-of-the-art £10 million Exchange building, an extension to the Learning Resource Centre, will provide a range of distinctive new spaces suitable for learning in the 21st century. A collaborative lecture theatre and learning lab, ‘eddy’ spaces for small group discussions and exhibition areas will be connected by a ‘social street’ running through the new building. Like all our current investments on campus, The Exchange will be complete for the beginning of the 2012/13 academic year.
Social facilities on campus include a fully equipped gym and fitness studio, restaurant and student bar, as well as a 1,300-capacity venue which regularly hosts live bands and DJs, as well as comedy, open mic sessions and club nights.
Our Cornwall Campus has its own Students’ Union (the FXU), which is closely linked to the Exeter Students’ Guild. There is a wide variety of Students’ Union clubs and societies, including competitive sports, departmental and social societies - from surfing and scuba diving, to theatre and film-making.
Accommodation is available on campus, in a purpose-built student village called Glasney Student Village. The recently built complex has en-suite rooms finished to a very high standard, each with their own telephone and internet connection.
The campus, locally known as Tremough, is shared with University College Falmouth, incorporating Dartington College of Arts. The institutions have separate teaching facilities but students share accommodation, the Students’ Union and social/sports facilities on the campus which is run by the institutions through a joint venture, the Tremough Campus Services Group (TCSG). This creates a unique student community which is vibrant and creative, and includes a mixture of students from science, engineering, humanities and arts backgrounds, both on campus and in the local area.
The environment and sustainability are key themes underpinning the unique ethos of the Cornwall Campus. They form the basis for much of the research undertaken in Cornwall and are a direct or indirect part of all our degree programmes. As part of the next phase of development at the Cornwall Campus we are building the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), a £30 million interdisciplinary centre to lead cutting-edge research into the consequences of environmental change and the mitigation and management of its effects. The ESI has been enabled by a £30 million investment from the EU European Regional Development Fund (£22.9m) and the South West Regional Development Agency (£6.6m). It will bring together state-of-the-art resources with leading academics in a brand new BREEAM Outstanding* rated building while actively supporting the development of a dynamic ecosystem services industry.
To find out more about the considerable investment taking place on the Cornwall Campus, download or pick up a copy of our leaflet Creating a World-class University Campus from the Main Reception.
You might also like to hear about the campus from some of our current students who recently helped us make two short films. Both the undergraduate film and postgraduate film feature students studying at the Cornwall Campus.
Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC)
Through the CUC, the European Union and the UK government have invested more than £60 million in new higher education facilities in Cornwall. Over £50 million of this investment has been in academic facilities at Tremough. The announcements to build the ESI and Exchange will see an additional £40 million invested at the Cornwall Campus. The CUC is not a university but a collaborative partnership between Higher and Further Education providers in Cornwall. As a student of the Cornwall Campus you will apply to and be registered as a student of the University of Exeter and will graduate with a University of Exeter degree. Visit the CUC website
