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University of Birmingham

Birmingham

  • Location: City

Student life

At Birmingham, your university experience isn’t just about studying. You will have the opportunity to discover new experiences, develop different skills and make friends for life. Campus is a hive of activity all year round. In winter, you’ll find the Winter Festival on campus, complete with a big wheel and hot chocolate. In summer, we host our Summer Ball on campus with live music and a funfair. With regular student socials, research showcases, family fun days, live sporting events and more, there is always something exciting happening.

Student accommodation at Birmingham is so much more than just a room. It’s your chance to be a part of a vibrant and diverse community of over 6,000 students from across the world. Here you’ll have the freedom to explore your interests, try new things and forge life-long friendships.

What's it like to live in West Midlands?
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The West Midlands is made up of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. Its main cities are Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton.

It’s the most diverse part of the country behind London, with a proud multicultural history, from the birth of Two-Tone music in Coventry – a combination of Caribbean ska and English punk – to the Balti curry, courtesy of Birmingham’s Pakistani community.

Once the heart of heavy industry and manufacturing, and the inspiration for Peaky Blinders, Birmingham is one of the youngest cities in Europe, with over 40% under 25 years old.

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What's it like to live in Birmingham?
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The UK's second largest city, cosmopolitan Birmingham offers diversity and one of the youngest populations in Europe.

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Campus and facilities

We are continually investing in our campus to make sure that it is fit for you, our students. In recent years we have invested in a new Main Library; a new Sports Centre and sports facilities, including the region’s first 50m-length pool; a beautiful Green Heart parkland at the centre of campus to relax and study; a Collaborative Teaching Laboratory enabling us to rethink how STEM subjects are taught; a Teaching and Learning Building providing outstanding modern facilities for individual and collaborative learning; and a School of Engineering to strengthen the relationship between our teaching and research with contemporary and flexible spaces. We continue to develop our campus to ensure students have access to the very best educational facilities, with a new Molecular Sciences coming soon.

Course locations

Main Site

Academic and Student Division, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Main Site

Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Singapore Institute of Management

461 Clementi Road, Singapore, 599491

Edgbaston Campus

Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TU

Shakespeare Institute

Mason Croft, Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 6HP