University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
Exeter has been named as The Sunday Times University of the Year 2012/13. We have also been ranked 7th in the UK by The Sunday Times. We are in the top one per cent of universities in the world, and a regular fixture in the top 10 league tables in The Guardian and The Times. Ninety per cent of our research was rated as internationally recognised in the latest (2008) Research Assessment Exercise.
The Cornwall Campus offers excellent facilities for teaching and research, and brings the heart of the University to an environment unrivalled in the UK. It offers a friendly atmosphere as well as innovative programmes taught by world-class academics.
Living and studying in Cornwall is not like living and studying anywhere else. 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) is now open: a £30 million interdisciplinary centre in a brand new BREEAM Outstanding rated building, it brings together state-of-the-art resources with leading academics to pioneer cutting-edge research into solutions to problems of environmental change. It's not the only new facility either: the £10 million Exchange is a striking extension to the Learning Resource Centre, it provides a range of distinctive new spaces suitable for 21st century learning.
