“If you want somewhere with a slower, more chilled out, friendly pace
of life without losing that all-important student atmosphere, then
Cornwall is the place for you", Sally Wagner, 3rd year student, Cornwall CampusCornwall Campus
The Cornwall Campus is set in 70 acres of countryside, close to the waterside town of Falmouth, and boasts beautiful views over the Fal estuary. It offers peace and tranquillity as well as a lively student community with a vibrant mixture of students from science, engineering, humanities and arts backgrounds.
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 Falmouth University, 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.
