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Consistently ranked amongst the UK s best modern universities (Times Online), Northumbria University offers a high standard of teaching, excellent facilities and a supportive environment for international students.

Northumbria s campus is located in the city of Newcastle; a wonderful city with a population of 275,000. Known as the capital of England s North East, it has a dramatic location on the River Tyne near the East Coast and lies at the heart of one of Britain s most beautiful and historic regions. Voted one of the world s top spots for nightlife, Newcastle is a great place to be a student. Northumbria s stunning new campus development houses the Schools of Law, Design, and Newcastle Business School and was recently named Project of the Year by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors as well as awards for Sustainability, Design, and Innovation.

Northumbria is one of Britain s largest modern universities, with around 25,000 students, including approximately 3,380 international students. The University has strong links with industry, and courses are designed to prepare students for successful careers. Many degrees are officially recognised by professional bodies.

Northumbria offers over 500 courses at foundation, undergraduate, undergraduate top-up , and postgraduate level. In a recent study by the Financial Times based on government figures, Northumbria came top for helping students to stay the course and get better qualifications. International students have free access to a wide range of facilities and specialist services during their time at the University.

History

Northumbria University has its origins in three regional colleges: Rutherford College of Technology, the College of Art Industrial Design and the Municipal College of Commerce. An amalgamation of these three institutions formed the Newcastle Polytechnic in 1969, which became the major regional centre for the training of teachers with the incorporation of the City College of Education in 1974, and the Northern Counties College of Education in 1976. Northumbria was inaugurated as a university in 1992.

Schools

Northumbria offers approximately 500 study programmes through nine Schools:

Applied Sciences

Arts and Social Sciences

Built Environment

Design

Health, Community and Education

Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences

Law

Newcastle Business School

Psychology and Sports Sciences

Campuses

Location

The University has two campuses. The main campus, located in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, is known as the City Campus. With the construction of a new building for degree courses such as business the City Campus has been spilt in two. It now has City Campus East and City Campus West.

A secondary campus is located a five miles outside of Newcastle, on Coach Lane, and is known as the Coach Lane Campus at Cochrane Park near the A188 (Benton Road). It is in the Dene ward near Longbenton and round the corner from large HMRC offices, accessible via the Four Lane Ends Interchange. The Coach Lane Campus is home to School of Health, Community and Education Studies only, all others schools are located at the City Campus. A free Shuttle Bus runs between the two campuses at hourly intervals during University opening times and also runs until approximately 2200 Monday to Friday.

Development

The University is currently involved in a ??100+ million development project to improve and expand its city campus. This includes a new state-of-the-art seven acre site to be known as City Campus East, adjacent to the main campus, which will house the Schools of Law, Design and the Newcastle Business School. This expansion opened on time in September 2007.

The development project suffered a setback when, on 9 April 2007, a building that was to be student flats burned to the ground during the night. The nearby School of Design also suffered minor heat damage bore the blaze was brought under control.

Improvements to the City Campus West are also ongoing, and include a new footbridge linking the East and West Campuses across the central motorway, pedestrianisation and greening of the integrated teaching environment. This footbridge was officially opened early in 2008.

The next stage of the redevelopment of City Campus West is a new vehicular access route to the north of the campus from Sandyford Road. Demolition of Northumberland Annexe is now complete and work will shortly commence on a state of the art Sports Centre containing a swimming pool. The long term plan is for Northumberland Road to be pedestrianised. Sutherland Building is earmarked to be the home of Administrative Departments using the space vacated when the School of Law moved to City Campus East.

Students Union

The Students Union provides representation for all students studying at the University. It provides a range of student activities such as Northumbria Student Community Action(NSCA), One Planet(in conjunction with student services), Raise and Give(RAG), Give It A Go and Skills sessions. The building itself contains several venues for students to socialise in a safe environment, chily at Bar One, The Venue and Reds. It hosts a range of club nights, including:- Grenade , the popular drum and bass night, Get Y Skates On , which caters for the alternative types and the most popular night, Wiggle which often offers themed nights and a wide variety of mainstream music.

The monthly student newspaper is called The NUws Bulletin , which includes the popular entertainments section Poly Scene .