Welcome to Newcastle University's main campus
Home to over 22,000 students from all around the globe
as well as top-class facilities
and world-leading academics
Let's take a look around some of the key buildings
for our students across all degrees
First up - King's Gate! At the entrance to campus
and the base for most of our student support teams
including finance and wellbeing
By the side of King's Gate you'll find Culture Lab
a creative hub for digital media and filmmaking
Just up from Culture Lab
and either side of King's Walk
You'll see the impressive Students' Union Building
donated to the students of Newcastle University
by an anonymous donor back in the late 1930's
and Northern Stage, an on-campus theatre
where troupes from across the world come to perform
To the side of the Arches you'll find the Student Forum
an outdoor space to relax while the sun is shining
and enjoy some fresh Northeastern air
The three huge heads are sculptures produced
by alumus Joseph Hillier
and represent the three technological ages of mankind
Bronze Age, Industrial Age and the Digital Age
We'll head down to the left later
but first let's head through the Arches and on to the Armstrong Quad
This is the Armstrong Building
and the original centre of campus built in the late 1800's
to house our Medical School
After a refresh finished in 2016
it is now a base for many subjects including Marine Technology
History, Classics and Archaeology and Music
On the right side of the Quadrangle is our Fine Art building
where, surprisingly, Fine Art is based
inside you'll find studio spaces and workshops
and the Hatton Gallery, and art gallery open to the public
featuring world-renowned installations
and where the Pop Art movement was started
Next door to Fine Art is the Architecture Building
where students from our School of Architecture, Planning & Landscapes
have 24 hour access to studios, crit and gallery spaces and workshops
Moving along you’ll find the Old Library Building
which contains our School of Modern Languages and the Language Resource Centre
It also offers a service for students to buddy up
to help each other learn their native languages
At the end of the Armstrong Quad is the Percy Building
named after Eustice Percy, the first baron of Newcastle
This is where our School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics is based
Merz Court is where our Chemical and Electrical and Electronic Engineering facilities are based
and is named after the electrical engineer John Theodore Merz
It’s filled with the latest tech in specialist labs
seminar rooms and lecture theatres for undergraduate and postgraduate students
A short walk down Lover’s Lane there’s the Ridley 2 building
the hub of our Biology-related subjects
We have an outstanding range of facilities to support research and teaching
in Biotechnology, Ecology, Marine and Zoology
This is the Faculty of Medical Sciences
the home of our School of Medical Education
School of Dental Sciences and the School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences
This building houses teaching, research and social facilities for students
and links to Newcastle’s main RVI Hospital and the Dental hospital
Just down for the FMS building is our Sports Centre
which is the home of our state of the art Sport and Exercise Science facilities
including a 40 meter long gait track, environmental chamber and nutrition lab
It's also is open to all students for access to the gym
weights room, indoor courts and sports hall
along with loads of different sports classes for pros and amateurs alike
Next is the Dame Margaret Barbour Building
which is where our School of Psychology is based
as well as our Nutrition and Dietetics programmes
Back on the main part of campus along Claremont Road
is the Henry Daysh building
The building has undergone major refurbishment
and is home to the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Philosophy, and Combined Honours
The Architecture, Planning and Landscape School office is also based here
alongside the Planning and Landscape studios
Across the road from the Henry Daysh and facing each other on Stephenson walk
are the Cassie and Stephenson Buildings
at the centre of our Engineering part of campus
This is where geospatial, civil and mechanical engineering students
will spend a large portion of their time in custom built labs and study spaces
Just before we take the bridge over to the next section
we’re at the Drummond Building which hosts the Houston Laboratory
This unique teaching laboratory gives you the opportunity
to get integrated teaching across a range of disciplines
including Chemistry, Earth Science and Geography
Across the central motorway you’ll find our Law School
a building dedicated to both undergraduate and postgraduate study of law
including the Law Library, fondly named The Dungeon by staff and students
due to it’s setting in the building’s basement
The centre piece of this part of campus is the Phillip Robinson Library
or The Robbo – our main library building opened in 1982
with 4 floors of books, digital resources, study spaces and quiet zones
It also contains our special collection archive
Filled with historical artifiacts and manuscripts
Down to road from The Robbo there’s our second library building
The Marjorie Robinson Library, named after Phillip's wife
A digital library offering space to study, learn, collaborate and consult
On the edge of campus is the Great North Museum: Hancock
Opened in 1884 it is our own natural history
containing a range of significant collections
from the Natural History Society of Northumbria
the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
Operated as a free public museum
it gives students on our various History, Classics and Archaeology degrees
fantastic real-world experience of curation and artifact discovery
Back on the west side of campus there’s the Herschel building
built during our campus expansion in the 1960s
This is the main area for our School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
Outside of which is a sculpture called Spiral Nebula by Geoffrey Clarke
Across the car park from Herschel is The Bedson Building
where our Chemistry labs are based
featuring well-resourced research laboratories and extensive teaching facilities
Our Agriculture building dates back to the 1960's
but features some highly specialist and state of the art labs on the inside
Next along the road is our King George VI building
from our first campus extension in the early 1900s
Built for the Medical School and rumoured to have
underground tunnels linking directly to the RVI
it is now the base for Education, Speech and Language Sciences and Pharmacy
Let’s check out the second part of campus on the west side of Newcastle
home to our Business School and the Helix development. It’s just a short walk away
Nestled amongst Newcastle’s main high-rise towers
you’ll find our Business School
8 stories of undergraduate and postgraduate study and research
housed within its high-rise walls
as well as some of the best views of the West side of the city
Business students will also have some lectures in the Frederick Douglass Centre
our latest learning and teaching centre
named after the 19th century social reformer and abolitionist
who once stayed in this part of Newcastle
The Urban Science Building, or USB
is where our School of Computing is based
A smart building, it has over 2,000 sensors inside and out
monitoring everything from wind speed to room occupancy
that feed into our Urban Observatory
linked to sensors monitoring the wider city life
including air pollution, traffic levels and rainfall
Those are the main areas of our city-centre campus
but for some of our specialist and technical degrees
we also have facilities outside of the city
to help enhance your experience with real world learning environments
Out on the coast, just a 20 minute Metro ride away
we have our Dove Marine Lab
where our Marine Science students can conduct field research
with the marine life and coastal region of the North Sea
Further up the coast we have our Cavitation Tunnel at Blyth
for Marine Engineering students to conduct wave research
If you’re joining us on an agriculture or animal science degree
you’ll get access to our two farms in rural Northumberland
Cockle Park and Nafferton
living labs where we conduct research in to everything from swine safety in birth
to soil erosion and organic food tech
And that’s our campus, here in the heart of the north east
We hope to see you here soon!