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Kingston University

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Kingston is located South - West Of London, on the banks of the River Thames. It has a busy town centre and many modern facilities and is just 25 minutes by train from central London. There are direct rail links to the Eurostar train terminal, so you can be in the mainland of Europe in four hours. Travelling to all London's major airports is also quick and easy from Kingston. More about the location

The University is based on four main campuses in and around Kingston upon Thames, on the

South-West fringe of London. Each Campus is within easy reach of Kingston town centre. A free university bus service links the campuses, halls of residence, the railway station, and the town centre.
 
 

Penrhyn Road

 Each Kingston Campus has its own character and at Penrhy Road the atmosphere is lively and cosmopolitan. As the Student's Union headquarters and central facilities like the gym and health centre are based here, students from all campuses converge on this large site.

The complex has grown around the four story main building which houses many of the important hubs of activity like the main student restaurant, the library and a host of teaching rooms and lecture theatres. At the library you'll find the large main collection, plus an open access language studio and the Mineralogical Society's library.

A £5 million new building development has added science laboratories, open access computing suites and library facilities. In the second phase of this development, the university is investing £9.8million in replacing the oldest part of the campus with State-of-the-art new laboratories.

The busy atmosphere of Penrhyn Road, its proximity to the town centre and accessibility to other campuses gives it a buzz, day and night.

Knights Park

Home to Kingston's design students, Knights Park is tucked away in a quiet street and has a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Its size and location make the campus more intimate than the larger site.

Knights Park's role as the university's creative base is obvious as soon as visitors walk through the front door, with students work exhibited in the reception area throughout the year. The University's Stanley Picker Art Gallery is based at Knights Park, together with the digital technology, Whitespace Studio. The campus is bordered by the Hogsmill River, and the student restaurant and bar open onto the waterside. Knights Park library has a collection of over 160,000 slides covering design, fine art, graphics, performing arts and the built environment, together with a periodical collection of around 400 titles.

At Knights Park each subject has its own designated teaching area, but as the campus is relatively small there are pleanty of opportunities to mingle in the bar or restaurant or at one of its many social events.

Kingston Hill

Kingston hill is an attractive hillside campus situated in leafy grounds about three miles from Kingston town centre. The campus is quite steep in places and retains some of the landscaped gardens and the large Victorian house that were once the heart of the country estate based here. Over the decades a range of modern buildings have gone up as the campus functions have multiplied.

In 1997, an award-winning, multi-million pound development opened at Kingston Hill, comprising a 300-seat lecture theatre, new teaching space and an extended learning resources centre. These eye-catching new buildings - characteised by the large area of glass, aluminum and steel - are now the hub of the campus, and clever landscaping around them has created pleasant green spaces and meeting areas.

In addition to the many teaching rooms and computer labs, Kingston Hill is home to a large drama studio and gym, a fully equipped music studio, halls of residence with room of 565 students, a bar, a café and a restaurant. With so many facilities on site the campus has a good community feel.

Kingston Hill's new learning resources centre provides access to specialist printed and electronic resources in business, education, law, music and healthcare sciences, together with computing and media facilities.

The University bus connects Kingston Hill with the other campuses, main halls of residence, the town centre and railway station.

Roehampton Vale

The University redesigned this modern factory building to provide teaching rooms and a range of laboratories accommodating around 700 engineering students.

What looks like a large functional block on the outside has a warm and welcoming interior where the vast wall spaces have been brightly painted and hung with large pieces of modern art on loan from the School of Fine Art.

The campus houses large-scale wind tunnels and several other pieces of state-of-the-art equipment, including Kingston University's flight simulation. The library offers a collection of British standards on CD- ROM in addition to its specialist engineering materials.

The campus is situated on the outskirts of Kingston, about three and half miles from Kingston town centre and close to Richmond Park. You can use the university bus to travel between Roehampton Vale, the other campuses, main halls of residence, the town centre and Kingston railway station.