Location
Living in Cornwall
Our Cornwall Campus is not just distinctive, intimate and unlike the University's other two campuses, it's not like any other campus you're likely to see either.
For one thing, living and studying in Cornwall is not like living and studying anywhere else, and the difference is more than a postcode. Cornwall has its own energy and feel; people tend not to end up here by chance, they come for a reason, and there are plenty of good reasons to choose from.
The smaller scale helps; year after year, students tell us how much they like being somewhere sufficiently intimate for them to see faces they recognise, to be recognised themselves, and to be on first-name terms with so many other students and staff. They tell us, too, what an amazing place this is to live, not just because it's the Cornwall they expect (beaches, beauty, sunsets, friendliness) but because it's the Cornwall that takes them by surprise (music, culture, energy, ambition).
Sharing a campus helps as well. Locally, it's known as Tremough, and we share it with Falmouth University. This creates a vibrant, creative mix of students with science, engineering, humanities and arts backgrounds.
The environment and sustainability are important to us; they're the basis for a lot of the research undertaken here, and they feed - directly and indirectly - into all our degree programmes. Our new Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) will be ready in Autumn 2012: it's a £30 million interdisciplinary centre leading cutting-edge research into solutions to problems of environmental change. It's not the only brand new facility about to open either. The £10 million Exchange Building is a striking extension to the Learning Resource Centre and will provide a range of distinctive new spaces suitable for 21st century learning.
You might like to hear about the campus from some of our current students who recently helped us make two short films. The undergraduate and postgraduate films both feature students studying at the Cornwall Campus. In addition we recently asked a group of current students to share their thoughts online.
Find out more about life in Cornwall
You can find out more in Live it - a students' guide to life in Cornwall.
I am currently the Chief Editor of Flex, the student newspaper, which is great to put on my CV. When I graduate I intend to move to South Africa where I want to work as an investigative journalist exposing political corruption, social crises and economic calamities in the hope of giving something back to my homeland.
Studying at the University of Exeter Cornwall Campus has been the single greatest experience of my life so far. I have made friends here who I will be socialising with well into my old age, I am doing a degree I am passionate about, I live in the best part of the UK and, on top of that, I am lucky enough to find inspiration for my poetry every single day.
Graham Barclay, BA English, Cornwall Campus
Falmouth’s student life is brilliant – with small, individual places to go that often play alternative music. I like the fact that you can often go into a club and know many of the people there. The beach and Kimberly Park are also great places to go for the day and nowhere around Falmouth is ever that far away!
Sarah Barber, BSc Geography, Cornwall Campus
The Cornwall Campus is a unique place to study. Being by the beach seems to make everyone a little more chilled out. We share a campus with University College Falmouth which has meant I’ve been able to get stuck in with loads of arts related projects – I was even an Assistant Director on a music video! I’ve secured two internships in marketing, work experience with the BBC and run my own live music events and club nights- something that would be so much more difficult in a big city.
Nadiya Hussain, BA English, Cornwall Campus
