About our Campuses
We have a pioneering spirit, expressed in the vision of our founder Sir Jesse Boot, which has seen us lead the way in establishing campuses in China and Malaysia — part of a globally connected network of education, research and industrial engagement. State-of-the-art laboratories and teaching and research facilities nestle within the beautifully landscaped gardens, providing staff and students with a wonderful environment in which to work, study and live.
University Park Campus, Jubilee Campus, Sutton Bonington Campus and King’s Meadow Campus are all in the UK; the University also has campuses in Ningbo, China, and in Semenyih in Malaysia.
UK campuses
With established woodland, landscaped gardens and period buildings set around a large boating lake, Nottingham’s flagship 300-acre University Park Campus is one of the largest in the UK. It is widely regarded as one of the country’s most attractive campuses, with a record 14 Green Flag Awards – the benchmark national standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales. Nottingham became the first university in the country to achieve Green Flag Awards for two sites when Jubilee Campus won its first award in 2013.
University Park Campus is the focus of life for many of our students. As well as excellent teaching facilities, the campus has halls of residence, a conference and exhibition centre and 200-bedroom hotel, shops, banks, bars, galleries, a theatre and restaurants. A new stateof-the-art sports centre, the David Ross Sports Village, had its official opening in 2017. Built on the site of the former Raleigh factory, the 65-acre Jubilee Campus is an exemplar of brownfield regeneration and has impeccable green credentials, with five Green Flag Awards.
Opened by the Queen in 1999, it is adjacent to University Park Campus. Its series of lakes are home to a variety of wildlife, and provide storm water attenuation and cooling for the buildings. Facilities include Nottingham University Business School, the Schools of Education, Computer Science and Contemporary Chinese Studies as well as the University of Nottingham Innovation Park (UNIP).
UNIP includes the Nottingham Geospatial Building, the Energy Technologies Building, the Institute of Mental Health and Aerospace Technology Centre. Recent additions include the Ingenuity Building and the GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry, both of which opened in summer 2016. A new Advanced Manufacturing Building is under construction.
The 110-acre Sutton Bonington Campus is 10 miles south of University Park Campus in countryside on the border of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. Its rural location makes an ideal home for the School of Biosciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, which opened in 2006.
The School of Biosciences is internationally renowned for research across its five divisions: Animal Sciences, Food Sciences, Plant and Crop Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
China Campus
The University’s strong links with China resulted in an invitation to become the first foreign university to establish an independent campus, under legislation passed in China in 2003. University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) is in Ningbo, an historic city on China’s eastern coast close to Shanghai, and has been developed in partnership with the dynamic and innovative Wanli Education
Group. The campus in Ningbo provides accommodation, sports facilities and a shopping street, and is close to the central business district. The campus has more than 6,600 students, undergraduate and postgraduate, with around 650 international students from 60 countries.
Key research areas include the marine economy and technology, sustainable energy technology, global finance, Sino-Foreign universities, international finance, fluids and thermal engineering and creative and digital cultures. UNNC management comprises Professor Yang Fujia, former Chancellor of The University of Nottingham and President of UNNC, and the Vice-Chancellor. Professor Chris Rudd, Provost and Pro-Vice-Chancellor oversees growth and development.
Malaysia Campus
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) opened in September 2000. It was the first branch campus of a British University established outside the UK – earning the distinction of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2001 and the Queen’s Award for Industry (International Trade) 2006. The purpose-built campus opened in 2005 and provides on-campus accommodation, good sports facilities, and a multi-level library, as well as state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities. The campus has more than 4,800 undergraduate and postgraduate students from 65 different countries.
Research areas include the major Crops for the Future programme, Asia Pacific Studies, Sustainability, Islamic Finance and Communication and Cultures. UNMC is led by Chairman YM Tengku Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Ahmad Rithauddeen Bin Tengku Ismail, and the ViceChancellor. Professor Graham Kendall, Provost and CEO, has overall responsibility for all academic and operational aspects of the Malaysia Campus.