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Newcastle University is a British university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. It was established as a School of Medicine and Surgery in 1834 and became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne by an Act of Parliament in August 1963.

Today's University is a forward-looking, dynamic community of more than 18,000 students and 4,500 staff.

As one of the UK's leading universities, our reputation rests on the quality of our teaching - both for undergraduates and postgraduates, our outstanding research, and our work with the regional and local community, businesses and industry. This is underpinned by our mission to play a leading role in our city and region.

Creating a Campus for the Future
The next two years will see extensive development of the Haymarket-facing perimeter of the University's main campus.

Newcastle University can trace its origins to a School of Medicine and Surgery, established in Newcastle in 1834. Learn more about the history of Newcastle.

Facts and Figures

No. of students: 19,700*
No. of Administrative staff: 4,500
Funding type: Public
*= (Approx. total)
United Kingdom
Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Newcastle's Campus

The majority of our teaching and learning activities take place at our 50-acre campus on the edge of Newcastle city centre.

This is the largest of our city centre campuses and represents the hub of Newcastle student life, bringing together facilities such as:

* King’s Gate – our purpose-built student services building
* The Students' Union
* Sports Centre
* a variety of catering outlets

It is also home to a wide range of teaching and learning facilities, including our:

* award-winning library service
* language resource centre, providing free access to self-study materials in over 50 languages
* computer clusters, some of which are open 24 hours a day

Welcoming our community

We welcome the local community on to our campus throughout the year to enjoy the many free cultural events and attractions on offer, including:

* an art gallery, displaying a permanent collection of artworks, ranging from the Renaissance to the twentieth century
* an independent theatre, which is home to Northern Stage, the North East’s largest producing theatre company
* a wide range of public cultural activities based in the University’s Culture Lab
* free public lecture series featuring an impressive line-up of speakers from public life. Recent visitors include: Roy Hattersley, Nick Hornby, Miriam Stoppard and Bonnie Greer
* free weekly lunchtime concert series by professional musicians
* a visitors' centre in Level 1 of King’s Gate

Sustainability

Sustainability is high on our agenda, and not simply because of our world-leading research. We are committed to the notion of a sustainable campus, and we promote initiatives to encourage our students and staff to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, including:

* a cross-campus recycling scheme
* lighting controls in common-use areas of many of our buildings to reduce energy consumption
* monitoring of energy
* sustainable transport schemes

We have joined the EcoCampus scheme, which allows universities to be recognised for addressing key issues of environmental sustainability.

Campus developments

The University is mid-way through a ten year programme of building and development work. Projects currently under way include:

* £8 million refurbishment of the Students' Union, re-opening in September 2011state-of-the art teaching facilities and accommodation for our INTO Newcastle University students, opening in Autumn 2012
* a new building for Newcastle University Business School

Campus for Ageing and Vitality

Our campus for ageing and vitality is a purpose-built campus on the site of the former Newcastle General Hospital in the west end of the city. We have the largest number of academics working on aspects of ageing in Europe, and many of them are based on this campus.

It provides a focus for our world-class research, led by the Institute for Ageing and Health, into how we grow old, how we can stay healthy and active as we get older and how we can combat age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia.

It will also bring the business and volunteer sector and the public into much closer contact with our research by creating one campus where activities aimed at helping us stay healthy and active can co-exist.

The campus is part of the Science City initiative, in which we are a lead partner. It is currently home to the following state-of-the-art facilities in what is known as the ‘academic quarter’:

* Wolfson Research Centre, the administrative headquarters for the Institute of Ageing and Health
* Wellcome Biogerontology Building, providing state of the art facilities for research on basic mechanisms of ageing
* Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre for the research application of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
* Edwardson Building for the study of brain ageing Clinical Ageing Research Unit (CARU), containing a mix of clinical, teaching and research facilities
* Centre for the Health of the Elderly
* Institute of Pathology

Newcastle International Centre for Life

Newcastle University is a partner organisation in the Centre for Life, which is a pioneering science village based in the heart of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne where scientists, clinicians, educationalists and business people come together to promote advancement of the life sciences. It is also a key part of Newcastle Science City.

Life’s mission is to:

* inspire curiosity in science through an imaginative programme of exhibitions and events, to raise standards in science education for young people and to engage everyone in contemporary science issues, such as climate changes and stem cell technology


* provide substantial annual funding and state-of-the-art facilities on site, so that world class scientific research in medicine can flourish

Facilities The range and standard of our facility provision is outstanding with continual investment of over £10m per year to our award-winning teaching, learning and research services.

Cultural Attractions

Playing a leading role in the cultural life of the city and region is an important part of the University's mission.

Cultural events are an essential part of our public engagement activity, and each year we welcome thousands of visitors to the campus, drawn by our extensive and varied cultural attractions including exhibitions, public lectures, live music, theatre and literary events.

* Great North Museum: Hancock - the museum re-opened in May 2009 following a £26 million renovation. It is set to be a flagship visitor attraction that will rival the best the UK has to offer. Key features include, displays on the wonder and diversity of the natural world, a planetarium, a large-scale, interactive model of Hadrian's Wall, and spectacular archaeological finds from Ancient Greece and mummies from Ancient Egypt – as well as a life-size T-Rex dinosaur skeleton.
* Hatton Gallery: Great North Museum - home to an impressive and important permanent collection of paintings, sculpture, print-making and drawing, and is highly-regarded as a venue for historical, modern and contemporary art exhibitions.
* Insights - one of the most varied and vigorous programmes of public lectures in the county, which regularly attracts big name speakers from home and abroad. The lectures are open to everyone, and are free of charge.
* King's Hall Concert Series - our popular concerts offer a wide range of musical events and feature performances by the music students who are the stars of tomorrow, as well as celebrated musicians.
* Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts - NCLA runs a programme of readings and events, bringing world-class writers to Newcastle.
* Northern Stage - widely regarded as one the UK’s top 10 producing theatres, with a growing reputation for stimulating productions that attract audiences of all ages.

Student Life

The university has many student organisations. Newcastle University Union Society is the students' union, which includes student-run sports clubs and societies.

Unlike the majority of other students' unions in the UK, the Union Society owns the building in which it is housed. The Union building was built in 1924 following a generous gift from an anonymous donor, who is now believed to have been Sir Cecil Cochrane, a major benefactor to the University.It is built in the neo-Jacobean style and was designed by the local architect Robert Burns Dick whose firm designed the Laing Art Gallery, the towers of the Tyne Bridge and The Spanish City in Whitley Bay. It was opened on 22 October 1925 by the Rt. Hon. Lord Eustace Percy, who later served as Rector of King's College from 1937 to 1952. It is a Grade II listed building. From November 2010 to September 2011 the Union Building will undergo a redevelopment project for which the University has donated £8 million.

The Union Society is run by six sabbatical officers and fifteen part time unpaid officer positions The Union Society also employs around 300 people in ancillary roles including bar staff and entertainment organisers. Artists that have performed at Union Society include Maxïmo Park, Snow Patrol, Kosheen, The Fratellis, Coldplay, Low, Mercury Rev, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Chicane, The Hoosiers and Damien Rice. The Freshers' Week welcome events were in 2002 described in The Guardian as among the best in th country.

The Courier is a weekly student newspaper. Established in 1948, the current weekly readership is around 12,000, most of which are students at the university. It is published every week during term time, usually on a Monday unless a major news event warrants a delay.The Courier has won The Guardian's Student Newspaper of the Year award. In 2008, The Courier design editor Kerry Hyndman came runner up in the Guardian Student media award for Design for her work on the newspaper's entertainment pull-out, Pulp.As part of a re-design of the paper in 2009/2010 Pulp, originally a separate publication was replaced by a lifestyle section in the main body of The Courier.

Newcastle Student Radio is a student radio station based in the university.The station aims to cater for a wide range of musical tastes, anything from Metal and Punk to R&B and swing music.

Accommodation

Newcastle University has many catered and non-catered halls of residence available to first-year students, located around the city of Newcastle.

In 2008 a survey conducted by AccommodationForStudents.com ranked Newcastle as the number one student city in the UK, with a score of 63% across the categories of going out, shops, transport, community and facilities. In another 2008 survey, by MSN Travel, Newcastle was named as the number one university.

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