Open Day
The University of Greenwich held an open day across its three campuses on Saturday, March 26.
The magnificent Greenwich Campus at the Old Royal Naval College, the Avery Hill Campus in New Eltham and the Medway Campus at Chatham Maritime, were open to potential students, their families and friends, from 10am to 3pm. Special free buses were available to take visitors between campuses.
There were tours of laboratories and lecture rooms, and visitors could view the student halls of residence. There were also opportunities to meet students and lecturers, and attend presentations on a wide range of courses.
In Greenwich the university campus is part of a World Heritage Site. There are opportunities to study business, computing, maths, media, humanities, social sciences, law and languages.
In the nearby parkland Campus at Avery Hill, students can study for careers including architecture, construction, teacher training, nursing, midwifery and psychology.
The Medway Campus is home to construction and engineering, science and environmental science, food safety, geography, business and IT. Pharmacy is offered jointly with the University of Kent. Adult nursing, along with speech and language therapy, is offered jointly with Canterbury Christ Church University.
For details about future open days please visit: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/study/open-days/uni-wide
For further information, please contact the Open Day Unit, opendays@gre.ac.uk or call 020 8331 8354.
Alternatively sign up as a Greenwich VIP via the main university website.
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For further information and images, contact:
Nick Davison
Public Relations
University of Greenwich
020 8331 8092
n.a.p.davison@gre.ac.uk
http://twitter.com/unigreenwich
Notes For Editors:
University of Greenwich
The University of Greenwich is a large university with three campuses - in Greenwich, at the Old Royal Naval College, a World Heritage site; in Avery Hill, south-east London, set among 86 acres of parkland; and in Medway, at an elegant Edwardian red-brick campus in Chatham Maritime. The university is home to a thriving community of nearly 29,000 students, one in five of them postgraduate, and combines strong regional, national and international links with a record for excellence in research and a mission for access to higher education.
The university carried out more than £15 million of research and consultancy for companies, research councils and other public and private bodies last year. The quality of the university's research work has been recognised in the award of three Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher & Further Education. The university has also won four recent Times Higher Education awards.
Alongside its major economic, social and cultural contribution, the university prides itself on its high standards of teaching, careers guidance and personal support. The two most recent Sunday Times University Guides have placed Greenwich at the top of the London league table for student satisfaction. In the 2011 Sunday Times Guide, Greenwich was ranked 26th overall for student satisfaction, placing it among the top quarter of all UK universities. Greenwich also topped the publication's national league table for student satisfaction in a variety of subjects including Civil, Chemical and other Engineering courses, Law, and Medical Sciences and Pharmacy. The Sunday Times added that students at the Greenwich campus "have some of the most exquisite university grounds in the country".
People from more than 100 countries choose to study at Greenwich, as part of an international student community of 5,000. The university also has an extensive international network of partnerships with universities and overseas colleges.