Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University is a modern public institution located in Bath, in the southwest of England. The university is known for its strong creative heritage and historic landscaped campus, and today offers a comprehensive selection of undergraduate and postgraduate courses spanning arts and design, business disciplines, education, music and performing arts, and sciences.

Bath Spa is proud to be a leading university in creativity, innovation, and enterprise, and offers its students an impressive suite of facilities across Bath, with campuses at Newton Park, Locksbrook and Sion Hill, as well as two centres in London.

The main Newton Park campus is a spectacular landscaped site, situated about three miles west of Bath's historic city centre. It features rolling hills, wooded valleys, natural streams and beautifully designed lakes and gardens. The campus is home to a mixture of listed heritage buildings and award-winning contemporary architecture, furnished with state-of-the-art teaching facilities and a host of high-quality student accommodation.

Bath Spa University's passionate team of expert teaching staff deliver a dynamic range of courses across the following seven academic schools and a dedicated business faculty at its London campus:

• Bath Business School
• Bath School of Art, Film and Media
• Bath School of Design
• School of Education
• School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
• Bath School of Music and Performing Arts
• School of Sciences

Students are inspired to become creative thinkers, and doers, with the skills needed to thrive in a diversity of environments.

Bath Spa University has an enduring reputation for teaching quality and is an established centre of excellence for both undergraduate and postgraduate education. Its superb selection of degree courses spans seven academic departments and offers a comprehensive, future-focused education as well as a memorable university experience. Renowned for delivering a top-tier student experience to a diverse student body from the UK and over 80 other countries worldwide, Bath Spa's commitment to creativity, culture, and enterprise has garnered widespread acclaim.

The university has a medium-sized structure, fostering a tight-knit community of approximately 8,000 students who benefit from small average class sizes of just 16 students, as well as a highly personalised learning experience with frequent opportunities for feedback. Bath Spa is dedicated to maintaining a vibrant and inclusive learning atmosphere that sets the university apart from its peers.

With more than 8,000 students from over 70 countries making up Bath Spa's diverse community of learners, it is necessary to provide a platform of support services to ensure the academic success and personal well-being of each individual student.

Bath Spa has invested extensively in its student services and runs a dedicated network of support departments which can be contacted either online or at their campus offices.

In 2024 Bath Spa University was nominated as the University of the Year for Social Inclusion.

The top place was awarded to Bath Spa in recognition of its commitment to empowering students from all backgrounds with the opportunity to study and thrive in higher education, helping people develop skills today that will set them apart in the future.

From accommodation to wellbeing, there is a broad range of support resources, including staff specifically dedicated to supporting international students, such as the English Language Unit, an international student experience team, and an international student information desk.

The Student Hub is often the first point of call, staffed by a friendly and experienced team of advisors, who can offer a range of general and targeted support services, as well as being able to refer students to more specialised help wherever necessary.

The city of Bath has been named the as one of the safest cities in south west England, and in England and Wales, meaning that that students can feel confident while travelling around the city, between classes, accommodation, and nights out.

Newton Park campus is a self-contained site, serviced by an on-site security team and connected to the city centre by a free reliable shuttle bus service.

Adobe Creative Campus

Students enjoy access to Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Edition, and a vault of elite industry-leading apps, including Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Express and the spaces needed to develop a wealth of indispensable skills for use in and outside of the classroom.

English Language Unit

The unit supports international students who speak English as a second language with their academic English language skills, helping them reach their full potential and boost their confidence through a range of free individual tutorials and short courses.

Internationally Connected

Bath Spa has partnerships and links with businesses, organisations and institutions across the globe – this is a globally connected community. It welcomes international students to its beautiful campuses and gives students plenty of opportunities to spend time abroad and get that all-important international insight. Bath Spa graduates leave university as global citizens with ambition, drive and focus.

Exciting Career Prospects

Through the university's partnerships with businesses, Bath Spa connects students to a wide range of career pathways and employment opportunities. Graduates enjoy prospects above the national average, with around 90 per cent of graduates in work or further study after fifteen months.

Students have placement in various well-known, established companies including HP, L'Oreal, Airbus, Disney, Lidl, Canon, Jaguar, ORACLE, IBM, Warner Brothers.

Bath Spa also plans and funds international trips offering a series of work placements in international companies and organisations including SGE – Pagoda Projects – Beyond Work Experience.

The careers team is here to advise students on how to work towards their personal career goals, with services including:

• Finding part-time jobs
• Internships and volunteering
• CVs and cover letters
• Job interviews
• Finding summer work
• Planning next steps after graduation
• Scholarships

Students also have access to Student Circus, a global career resource for international students.

The university's careers team has put together comprehensive guide to working in the UK, that covers:

• Preparing to work in the UK
• Understanding what UK employers want
• Finding and applying for UK work experience
• How to shine through the recruitment process as an international student
• Positive conversations: how to talk to employers about visas
• Returning to a student's home country (or another country) to work after completing their studies.

Bath Spa University provides a superb range of academic and recreational facilities across its three sites around Bath. Each fully modernised campus is furnished with cutting-edge subject specific equipment and resources, ensuring students have all the tools needed to achieve their highest potential.

Bath Spa's Newton Park campus is the largest of the three, located near the village of Newton St Loe, about three miles west of Bath. The campus is set within picturesque grounds, designed by English landscape architect Lancelot "Capability" Brown. It is home to a variety of historic and modern buildings in a number of architectural styles, including the Grade I listed Main House, the remains of 14th-century castle, walled gardens and several ornamental lakes.

The Newton Park campus is home to the university's students' union facilities, hosting a cafe, bar, and gym. It runs a timetable of student events and activities throughout the academic year. Bath Spa's Sion Hill and Locksbrook campuses also have a strong students' union presence and offer a suite of subject-specific facilities and recreational spaces. Overall, the university offers accommodation for around 2,200 students in several locations around the Bath area.

The university also provides high quality sports facilities including rugby and football pitches, a netball court and changing facilities inside the historic walled garden. The garden also has recreational facilities, with games tables, outdoor seating, BBQ's and a small pond for students to enjoy.

Bath Spa provides an extensive platform of financial services and funding opportunities to support its student membership. The university offers a range of scholarships, bursaries and awards which are granted for both merit-based and means-tested criteria, enabling students to live and study in confidence, and focus their entire attention on course success and personal development.

Students can access information online, or via the university's financial services office, there they may speak with a trained advisor who will help to register for the relevant award schemes. There is funding available for undergraduate, postgraduate, and PGCE students, as well as a wide range of options designed specifically for international students:

International scholarships include:

• The Hall Commonwealth Scholarship
• International Recruitment Office Scholarship
• Latin-America Scholarship in Creativity and Culture
• Regional Office Scholarships for China, India, Africa, and Asia Pacific
• USA Transfer Scholarship

Current students are also able to contact the financial services office for advice and assistance in applying for external funding schemes.

Sustainability

Bath Spa University is a progressive and future-focused institution, which works hard to be a leader in sustainable development and practices. Its semi-rural Newton Park location offers students a closer connection with the countryside and natural landscapes than most UK universities, and the recent major developments in campus infrastructure have been carried out in accordance with rigorous environmental considerations.

Bath Spa University aims to have a lasting positive impact on the world, at local, regional, and global scales. Its rigorous consideration of educational and research practices shapes students into sustainability-minded, socially engaged global citizens, by using sustainability principles to guide its core values, actions and curricula, and by leading by example.

The university retained its impressive 100 per cent record for environmental auditing and management systems and was also assessed at 100 per cent in the staff and HR category. Bath Spa is dedicated to improving its performance in all 14 key areas and is implementing a new Sustainability Policy in an effort to be one of the first UK universities to achieve net zero.

A certified social enterprise

Bath Spa is proud to be a certified member of Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) – which is the largest social enterprise network in the country, aiming to make the world a better place through sustained research and partnerships with organisations around the globe.