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At Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ we constantly strive to make sure that all our facilities are up to date and provide the best learning experience for our students.

Your study environment

At Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ we constantly strive to make sure that all our facilities are up to date and provide the best learning experience for our students – so you’ll find study spaces in the Cruciform Hub, Senate House and 1–19 Torrington Place, as well as 1,000 spaces in the new Student Centre building. There are also refurbished labs in the Departments of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, a Virtual Trading Floor in the Department of Computer Science and a refurbished Language and Speech Sciences Library.

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾'s 16 specialist libraries support teaching and research. A large range of online resources can also be accessed from anywhere in the world, while a number of our libraries are open throughout the night.

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Centre for Languages & International Education (CLIE)

Our comprehensive centre offers courses for credit in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish at various levels of proficiency. We also offer Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) courses, and evening classes in 18 languages and a British Sign Language (BSL) course.

Sport and leisure

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ offers plenty of opportunities to take part in team sports or just to keep fit and have fun!

• Students' Union Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøվ runs around 60 sports and dance clubs, ranging from boxing and badminton to karate and capoeira!
• The Union also runs Bloomsbury Fitness, a well-equipped health and fitness club located just next door to the main campus in Bloomsbury.
• The Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Sports Grounds in Shenley, Hertfordshire, include full-size football pitches, all-weather netball and tennis courts, plus a pavilion. A free bus service runs to the sports grounds on match days and for training.
• Other nearby facilities include Student Central, open to all University of London students including Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ students, which houses a 33-metre swimming pool, and Somers Town Community Sports Centre.

Contemplation room

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ is a secular institution, but we are committed to providing an inclusive learning and working environment where students of all religions and none can thrive. We are proud to provide facilities in the Student Centre for prayer, worship and meditation, for students of all faiths and none.

Arts and entertainment

London is a great place to have fun and experience culture of all kinds - but if you want to stay closer to home, there's plenty to do on campus:

• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾'s Bloomsbury Theatre is a professionally run, onsite theatre with a seating capacity of around 500. The Bloomsbury has recently undergone renovation and hosts both professional and student performances.
• The Union runs a huge variety of clubs and societies dedicated to the arts; there's something for you whether you're into music, drama, writing, photography or even DJing.
• Bookable rehearsal rooms are available on campus and in some residences for those who play a musical instrument.
• The Union runs three bars, four cafés and a shop on the Bloomsbury campus, perfect for grabbing a coffee between lectures, meeting up with friends or unwinding after a busy day!

Museums and collections

Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ has a huge range of onsite museums and collections that can be used for study, or simply to explore when you have an hour between lectures!

• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Art Museum
• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Ethnography Collection
• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Geology Collection
• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Grant Museum of Zoology
• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Institute of Archaeology Collections
• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
• Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Science and Galton Collections