Hi, my name's Georgie, and I'm here to give you a campus tour today,
so we're starting up here on the High Street. We've got the old townhouse behind me. So it's
a really beautiful part of campus. It used to be an old prison and it also had jail cells,
but it's now a museum so you can come visit that while you're staying on campus. So to my left here
behind me as well, we've got the international centre so if you're an international student or an
EU student you can come here. You can get help, support, advice, meet other students as well.
You've also got the shelter cafe, which is the relatively new cafe campus, but it's a great place
to come and grab a coffee, have a bit of a break during your lectures. And as we go around campus,
I'll point out another few good places where you get break as well. So we'll head down the high
street. This is kind of the main bit in campus. So you've got lots of things on the high street.
And if you can find yourself here, then you shouldn't get too lost. It's quite a small campus,
everything's nice and close together. So we'll head on down here.
On my right here you've got Blackwells Bookshop. So Blackwells is great to get all the books you
need for your exams, for studying. They often do price matches as well. So if you find it on
Amazon and it's cheaper. Blackwells will often price match that for you. It's a great place as
well. You can get kind of fiction reads as well, stationery, all those sorts of things. It's handy
to have it on campus, on our doorstep. We've also got St Machar Bar here on my right as well.
So St Machar Bar is not run by the university, but it's another great
place for some drinks in the evening with your friends and kind of just chill out on campus.
And also here we've got the Infohub. So the Infohub is something you should really know
where it is as a student. It's a great place to find out information, get your student ID card,
any other kind of support, a bit like the International Centre that has help you as well.
So come to the Infohub if you need any help and support. So we're going to go up this way towards
the library and the student association and we'll show you a bit more as well.
So as we head up here, you can see useful parts of campus. It really is a beautiful campus and lots
of old historic buildings. But also as I show you the library, you'll see there's lots of new
buildings as well, lots of new facilities that are available for you as a student.
On my right here, as we go up, we've got St Mary's building. So that's for subjects such as geography
and archaeology. You might have lectures in here, but generally, as a rule at Aberdeen,
some buildings will kind of house certain subjects, but you'll still be all across campus.
So no one has kind of set in one place. You'll be round and use lots of different facilities.
So we'll just head up this bit here.
You find aswell in Aberdeen you get kind of used to everything is quite quickly
to spread out, you won't get lost. It's not like some campuses where I think there's so many things
in so many places. So you don't have to worry about that. Ahead of me here here as well you
can see we've got some accommodation. This is primarily for our postgraduate students.
But you can if you're post graduate or if you want to live there generally our student live
at Hillhead, which is our accommodation block for undergraduate students, and it's a really
nice place for people to meet everyone. And you're all in one place together, which is great.
So to my left here. We've got the students union building. So this has a downstairs area. We got a
coffee shop, you've got a shop as well with lots of kind of food and stationery, things like that
as well. You've also got upstairs, you've got food outlets, lots of places get different food
from vegan, halal, meat options, loads different things to see whatever you like.
If you are in accommodation aswell and you go for catered accommodation, you can use your car to get
food here as well on campus. So it's very flexible to allow you to do lots of different things. But
we also got here, as you can see on the sign that Aberdeen University Students Association.
So AUSA is the body that runs all our sports and societies.
So you can go in there if you speak to anyone who get any help. So it's all housed in one place.
So we'll go up this way now and show you the library.
So, again, this is also St Mary's building, which I mentioned earlier, if your
geography or archaeology or any subjects like that, you may well have lectures in
St Mary's building and this building all along here, this is all our accommodation,
primarily for postgraduate students. It also has downstairs flats and accessible flats as well.
So as we head up to the library, it's one of the newest parts of campus.
It's a beautiful facility, which you'll see in a minute, lots of study spaces. And you also might
see just in the background as you go around the corner, our new science teaching hub. So this is
in the current process of being built, but it's a great facility that will be amazing for science
students. We also get lots of brand new labs and facilities and opportunities to kind of
do everything that you want to do on your science courses. So just coming round to the library.
It's a lovely sunny day, we come into the sunshine.
So up behind us here, this is why we have our Sir Duncan Rice library.
So it's one of three libraries that we have on campus. The other two, we can point out as we go
round as well. This is the main library. It's the biggest one and has amazing facilities for all our
students. So you've got things like breakout study rooms, individual study areas, silent areas, group
working areas. There's also a cafe on the ground floor as well. So you have a little bit of a break
away from studying. But all students can come and get books out here and return books really easily.
It's a really really good facility because you spend a lot of time studying. So it's nice to have
those options. On my right we also have the Meston building. This is where at the moment things like
chemistry and physics are all held. But as I say, in the new science building, which is kind
of behind me to the left. It's going to be there when it's finished being built. You can't quite
see it behind the buildings, but that is where places like chemistry and physics will move to.
On My left here you also have the Fraser Noble building. So this at the moment is for
engineering. Big lecture theatres there as well. So you might find that you have lectures in Fraser
Noble even if you're not doing engineering. It's agreat building to pop into If you are on campus,
you can see the TAU racing car. So engineering students build these race cars and then they race
in an actual competition. So it's a really great thing to do if you're interested in engineering.
So we're going to head down this little pathway here. So we'll just check it's not too busy.
Looks all right. So we'll head down here. It's a cute little alleyway,
another part of campus that's just kind of really cute and quaint. Wait for the cars to go by.
So as you can see as well, there's like little individual houses and stuff on campus so
there are people that live on campus, just private houses, but it's got really quite little alleyways
and quaint things like this, which is just a really nice place to be at the university.
This can get really busy when she is changing lectures as millions of students go up and down,
but it's a really nice part of campus as well. OK, so as it come down here,
we're actually going to rejoin where we started back on the High Street
and so you'll see how everything kind of connects quite nicely. It's all quite close together.
OK, so we're back here on campus and on my right here, we've got the bakery,
so as you can see, it's lunch time. It's very popular, everyone likes to go to the bakery
and places like this. We've also got Kilau coffees, it's an independent coffee shop.
But again, it's very popular with students. Go and get coffee and cakes, their brownies are amazing.
So there's another nice place on campus that's really easy to get to. But you can kind of see
what the options offer you as a student. As we head down the high street as well. As you can see,
this is one of the really beautiful cobbled streets. It makes Aberdeen special. It
gives it the character that it has. So it's a nice thing to kind of be part of the campus.
You've also got on the right as you head down here, Keystore. So again, it's another shop,
a bit like the other ones I've spoken about, where you can get snacks, drinks, things at that very
reasonable price, so great for students, but it's another convenient place for students to access.
We're also heading down now kind of like the heart of campus. So as I said, I everything is quite
close together. It's easy to find everything. But as you come down here, it's kind of that
you might see in photos on the front of the prospectus. It's a really lovely part of campus.
We also got coming up on the right here, the Multi Faith Centre. So this is somewhere where
if you're religious or even if you have no religion, you can come here.
They do loads of activities, lots of things to get involved and meet people. So it's a really nice
part as well. And something you get involved in. As I said, whether you're religious, you can join
a religious group or if you're not, then just go along anyway. You welcome. Everybody is welcome.
So on my right here, we've got New Kings. So this is one of the most peaceful parts of campus,
especially in the sun today. It's really lovely.
Again, this big lecture theatres in here. So pretty much everyone will use New Kings
at some point. And it's just a gorgeous campus, great facilities, big lecture theatre. So lots
of room for you as students. And as you can see, the vines. Very Hogwarts we always think.
We've also got the Confucius Institute on our right here. So that's another facility
that you have. Everything is, as you can see on campus, it's all really close together.
So this is the heart of campus. So this is Kings College. This is the lawn area.
If you ever have managed to visit us an open day, then this is sort of why everything happens.
Our beautiful New Kings. Those are normally like big red vines, it's just lost it's leaves now. But
it's still a gorgeous building, really beautiful part of campus. And in the summer, especially when
there's lots of students around and everyone's kind of taking some breaks out in sunshine,
you'll see loads of students across the lawn area. And as I said as well we have open day
and things like that. And events will be run throughout the year as well that students can
come and get involved in and they tend to be based around here because it's such a lovely space.
And the back on the right there as well, you've got Elphinstone Hall.
So this is used for exams for students. It's also rented out for weddings. It is a beautiful old
hall with shields on the walls. And it's just a really gorgeous space. Again, if you've been for
open day that's where we have our academics in there to speak to you. Behind me here as
well we've got the chapel. Again it is a stunning chapel. It's one of the oldest parts of campus.
You can see the crown on top of the chapel as well. It's just a really beautiful piece
of architecture and a lovely area to study in and great for graduation photos I always think. Again,
the chapel is used for lots of different things. There's services in there. We had a Remembrance
service recently. You can also have things at weddings in there as well. So if you graduate
from Aberdeen, you could get married there as well. So this is all coming to the end of campus
behind me to the left, you can just about see in the background the two fairytale towers,
I would call them. So they were created by someone who didn't own part of campus.
He was a separate person and he decided he was a little bit jealous of campus, that he was going to
make his own kind of fairy tale bit. So he built those towers. Behind those towers is a Starbucks,
which is again, very popular with students and other Aberdeen University buildings as well.
Beyond that, you're heading towards a town centre. So university is not far from the town centre.
Just behind the main buildings here as well, the kind of grey building to the right,
that is where you can have other subjects as well. So a mix of subject space in there.
But within our main buildings here, you have things like divinity, history,
philosophy and generally those sorts of subjects. And we also have the divinity library. I mentioned
that we have more than one library. This is the divinity library space just in here as well.
So that was kind of a brief tour of campus, it gives you a rough idea of how it all looks,
we're going to do some other tours as well to keep a lookout, to see different areas of the campus.
But hopefully that gave you an idea of what Aberdeen is like.