The University of Exeter, Cornwall

The University of Exeter, Cornwall

The University of Exeter is recognised globally for teaching quality and research impact. Our Cornwall campuses in Truro and Penryn are key to that achievement.

We employ over 700 staff who engage in world-leading research and educate over 2,700 students - some of the country’s most satisfied, according to the National Student Survey. Cornwall’s beautiful landscape provides a perfect ‘living laboratory’ for students and staff from all our disciplines. Find out more about studying here.

We have developed an international reputation as the pre-eminent research institute in Cornwall by collaborating with local stakeholders to undertake cutting-edge research addressing scientific, medical, and social concerns. 

Together with our campus partners we have contributed more than half a billion pounds to the Cornish economy and helped create many high-skilled jobs—one of the the main reasons our local community enjoys the lowest unemployment rates and highest average wages in the Duchy. 

We are proud of all that we have achieved here and intend to build on this success in the future.

Cornwall campuses at a glance

• In the 2020/21 academic year, the University of Exeter supported economic output of £125 million, 73.5 million Gross Value Added (GVA) and 1900 jobs across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
• We engage and raise the aspirations of thousands of school children by running outreach activities with schools, holding community outreach events such as Science in the Square.
• We work with over 80 Widening Participation students from schools in Devon and Cornwall on our Exeter Scholars programme, which provides two years of support prior to their applying to university, and a preferential offer from us if they choose to apply to the University of Exeter. We also host a summer residential with BAME students from London and Birmingham.
• Exeter was ranked 13th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023.
• Exeter was rated 15th in the Guardian University Guide 2023. 
• 92% of our graduates are in or due to start employment or further study fifteen months after graduation based on full-time, first degree, UK domiciled graduates, HESA Graduates Outcomes Survey 2019/20.
• Exeter was ranked 137th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 and 149th in the prestigious QS World University Rankings 2023, placing it among the very best institutions worldwide.
• The latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) recognised 99% of our research as being of international quality.