Welcome to Park campus
Saturday 18 October, 10am – 3pm
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Your open day
Get the best possible feel for what it’s like to study at UoG at our open day.
There’s so much on offer! You’ll get to talk to lecturers and specialist teams such as Accommodation, Admissions, Money Advice, Student Support and Disability and Wellbeing. Plus, student ambassadors will be on hand all day to answer your questions and show you around.
If there’s anything you need that’s not covered on this page, you can take a look at the FAQs.
What to expect from your open day?
Getting here
The campus address is: Park Campus, The Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 2RH
Free parking is available onsite.
When you arrive, our friendly student ambassadors will direct you to check in.
Park Campus is also easy to reach using public transport.
Open day travel bursaries
Got concerns over how you’ll pay for travel to UoG?
We recognise that the cost of travelling to university events can be a barrier, especially with the current rise in living expenses. To support as many prospective students as possible to attend, we’re offering a travel bursary to eligible applicants* to help cover transport costs for our Open Day on Saturday 18 October 2025.
To apply, please fill out this form and we’ll be in touch to confirm if you are eligible.
*Eligibility criteria is based on our Access and Participation Plan . Travel support must be requested in advance. Contributions towards travel will be reimbursed after the event, unless other arrangements have been made with the organisers.
Great Western Railway (GWR) is offering a 20% discount on advance purchase rail tickets to our open day on Saturday 18 October 2025.
Advance tickets must be booked using this webpage by 6pm the day before travel. No code is needed; the discount is applied automatically (subject to availability).
Fixed-date tickets are non-changeable and non-refundable.
Need help booking your ticket? Call GWR on 0345 700 0125 (option 3, then option 1).
This offer is only available for travel on GWR services. If you are travelling from or within a region of the country that is not part of this network, then you will need to purchase a separate ticket.
The destination must be relevant to University of Gloucestershire. For example, Gloucester Station and Cheltenham Spa Station.
Origin of the journey must be within the GWR network, but please note that Advance Purchase tickets are not available for short-distance journeys.
The scheme is only available for use with Advance Purchase tickets. These set times and dates of travel are non-exchangeable and non-refundable.
The Open Days GWR travel offer is available for the dates provided by University of Gloucestershire and the week that the event takes place, running from Saturday to the next Sunday. So, stay for more than a day to get a feel for the local scene.
Discount can be used with the Railway Card 16-25. Tick the box on the page next to it and select from the drop-down menu
Your schedule
View your schedule below, including various talks and opportunities to explore our campus.
Tip: you can open each section for more information on each, including course talk times.
Check in at the Elwes building main reception and grab a printed programme with course talk times and locations.
We recommend you go to the talk listed for your subject to reduce the risk of overcrowding.
10.30 – 11.15am
Courses: Art & Design, Journalism, Music & Sound, Photography
Location: TC014
11.45am – 12.30pm
Courses: Animation, Computing and Cyber Security, Game Technologies, Film, Communications, Media & Television
Location: TC014
Find out when your course talk and taster session is taking place. We’ll let you know where to head for this when you check in on the day. Please note – if you’re visiting to find out more about integrated foundation degrees, you should attend the course talk for the full degree.
Location: Elwes Reception
Our student ambassadors will share their experience, provide hints and tips of how to budget, maintain a good work/study balance and share an overview of a typical weekly planner.
Location: TC208A/B
Screening of Film and TV Production student work.
Location: TC014
Get top tips and advice from our experts to help you make your course interview a success.
Location: OW001
Choose your own adventure. For Graphic Design, Interior Design, Animation, Fine Art, and Photography programmes.
Location: OW001
Tours and important extras – available all day
These teams will be available all day in the open day hub to answer any questions you have.
Our academics will be available all day in the open day hub to answer any questions you have about your course. Please do come and say hello.
Our campus and accommodation tours run every 15 minutes from the Campus Tours stand located in the hub. They’re led by our student ambassadors and you can ask them anything about the campus or student life at UoG.
Make your own way over to our off-campus accommodation at Pittville Student Village, where our ambassadors will be waiting to show you round. The postcode is GL52 3JG and it’s a short drive from Park.
Pittville has around 800 rooms, a regular bus service, 24/7 security, a gym, studio, laundry facilities, refectory, study-suite and social spaces.
FuturePark
On a campus tour, you’ll get the chance to see our exciting new learning space, FuturePark.
It’s been designed as a collaborative space for our Cyber Security, Computing, and Computer Games Design and Programming courses and is equipped with all the latest technology including a Cyber Control Centre, Virtual Reality Facility, digital lounge and chill out space.
Guaranteed accommodation
As a first year, you’re guaranteed accommodation on, or near to, the campus you’re studying at.
On-campus accommodation will be available to look around as part of a campus tour.
You’ll also be able to view off-campus accommodation at Pittville Student Village.
The Accommodation team will be available to answer any questions you have. Find them in the atrium and get all the information you need about the range of accommodation options UoG has to offer.
Getting around
Use the Park campus map to navigate around the campus, locate the rooms you need to visit for talks, and get a feel for the buildings, facilities, spaces and layout.
Visit the campuses page to find out about the other UoG campuses and more about Pittville Student Village.
Explore your new home on campus
Park Campus is surrounded by picturesque parkland and only a short walk from Cheltenham town centre. Originally designed to be Zoological and Botanical gardens, it’s no wonder that it’s popular with students.
Most importantly, Park Campus today is a technological and creative hub where students from technology, media and design create and collaborate using the latest industry equipment.
Close to Park Campus, next to GCHQ, is the Golden Valley development including the Cyber Innovation Centre – a future hub for tech sectors such as cybersecurity, AI and more.
It sees Cheltenham establishing itself as a centre for technology innovation. Part of the university’s connection with the cyber and tech community is the new FuturePark on campus, which has been developed in consultation with CyNam, Hub8 and Plexal.
Explore cheltenham
If you have time to spare, why not make your way into the centre of Cheltenham and get a feel for this vibrant festival town that you’ll call home.
It’s a 15 minute walk or short drive from Park Campus and has some great options for shopping on the promenade, and plenty of places to eat and drink in the Brewery Quarter.
If you have any questions…
Speak to a member of staff or Student Ambassador who will be happy to help, or take a look at the open day FAQs page.
If you have any questions following your open day, please use the Contact us page to find details of the relevant department to speak to.
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