About the Cornwall Campus (Tremough)

Situated close to Falmouth, the Cornwall Campus is designed to meet the needs of 21st century students and offers the very latest academic, research and residential facilities. Our newest development, the £30 million Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), puts the University and Cornwall at the forefront of research into the solutions to problems of environmental change.

The Cornwall Campus gives you intimacy and friendliness (with around 4,000 students), and world class, cutting-edge teaching and research. Though one of the smallest top ten university campuses in the UK, we excel in tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges through our programmes and research projects. In an arrangement we think is unique, we share the campus with University College Falmouth, a leading specialist arts institution. This creates a vibrant mix of students, with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds.

Our Cornish roots go back decades: the Institute of Cornish Studies and Camborne School of Mines became part of the University in 1970 and 1993, respectively. Both these historical Cornish departments moved to the Cornwall Campus when it opened in 2004.

The campus’s striking main buildings feature the very best facilities, with teaching labs, lecture theatres and seminar rooms equipped with the latest technologies. The latest phase of development sees not just the building of the ESI, but also an increased capacity for the existing Learning Resource Centre (LRC), with a new facility called The Exchange. This will provide a series of informal learning environments and link the LRC to a range of distinctive new spaces that reflect how our students, staff and visitors work together.

The environment and sustainability underpin this campus’s unique ethos; they’re the basis for much of the research here and recur throughout our degree programmes as well as in student societies, clubs and the running of the campus.