Student life
Accommodation
Starting university can be daunting, but living in university accommodation gives you a great way to settle in and make friends quickly. All of our accommodation offers a safe and secure community in which you can start your university career. In recent years we have made a multi-million pound investment in the building of new accommodation on all our campuses, which are designed to the highest standard and complement our existing residences.
At our campuses in Exeter we have something for everyone, from catered halls and self-catered accommodation, to self-contained family flats. Visit the Accommodation website for full details, including virtual tours of our halls and self-catering residences [new window].
At our Cornwall Campus we are able to offer self-catered accommodation in our purpose-built student village on campus. Please see the Cornwall Campus Accommodation page.
Conveniently located
All of our accommodation is either on the campuses or a maximum of a 30-minute walk away. That means you’re close to central teaching buildings and sports facilities as well as the campus social spaces, shops, restaurants and bars so you won’t be wasting your time or money on commuting. In Exeter, much of our accommodation is also conveniently located for the city centre.
Guaranteed
All new students entering the first year of an undergraduate programme who have firmly accepted the offer of a place at the University of Exeter and who have applied for accommodation by the advertised deadline will be guaranteed an offer of a place in University accommodation.*
Study Abroad and Erasmus students at the University of Exeter for the full academic year will be guaranteed University accommodation if their application is received by the advertised deadline.
* University accommodation is accommodation owned, managed or approved by the University.
I found it so easy to meet people when I first arrived at Exeter, and generally the people I met in my first couple of weeks in Halls are still my best friends, and I have continued to live with them ever since.
Angharad Smith, 3rd Year Drama
It’s so difficult to single out a particular element which I enjoy most about the Cornwall Campus. It’s very social; you don’t feel like another student, but a member of a family within a close-knit community. I have really enjoyed meeting a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds, and the small class sizes on my programme allow you to make some very close friends. Another enjoyable aspect is the ability to use a wide range of resources on an innovative and modern campus which is still developing.
There’s also access to a wide range of extracurricular activities and societies. I’m still having an amazing experience here; my programme is stimulating and extremely enjoyable and the social life is simply fantastic! I believe my experience is unique, because of the range of students who study both at the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth on the same campus.
Daniel Venton, BA Geography, Cornwall Campus
