Welcome to Oxstalls 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: Oxstalls Lane, Longlevens, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL2 9HW
Free parking is available onsite for the event.
Accessible parking spaces on Oxstalls campus will be available for blue badge holders.
When you arrive our friendly student ambassadors will direct you to check in.
Oxstalls Campus is also easy to reach via 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 Business School 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 (A)
Courses: Accounting and Finance, Business, Law and Marketing
Location: LC003
10.30 – 11.15am (B)
Courses: Sport and Exercise
Location: TC017/018
10.30 – 11.15am (C)
Courses: Crime and Criminology, Sociological Sciences
Location: TC218a/b
12 – 12.45pm
Courses: Health and Social Care, Dance, Drama and Performance Practice and Performing Arts
Location: LC003
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.
11.30am – 12pm and 2 – 2.30pm
For all business, accounting and finance, law and marketing courses.
Discover more about studying a business, accounting and finance, law, marketing or social science course at UoG.
Location: BG019
Our student ambassadors will share their experience, hints and tips of how to budget, maintain a good work/study balance and provide an overview of a typical weekly planner.
Location: BG133/134
2.15 – 2.45pm
Get top tips and advice from our experts to help you make your Health and Social Care course interview a success.
Location: TC017/018
2.15 – 2.45pm
Find out what the UoG experience is like for mature students.
Location: BG102
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.
Running all day until 5pm, our free shuttle bus will take you to Blackfriars off-campus halls where you will have a guided accommodation tour with a student ambassador. You’ll also be able to view the Upper Quay halls of residence, a 5-minute walk from Blackfriars.
At Oxstalls campus, the shuttle bus stop is next to the roundabout by the main entrance to the campus. Once you have finished with your off-site accommodation tours head back to the bus stop on Commercial Road and you will be able to get a free shuttle bus back to campus.
Check the Buses FAQ section for more detailed timings.
Our free shuttle bus will take you to the International standard Sports Arena where you can see our sports facilities including 3G and 4G all-weather pitches, tennis centre and hockey pitch.
The shuttle bus stop is next to the roundabout by the main entrance to the campus. Check the Buses FAQ section for more detailed timings.
Clubs and societies
Make sure you chat to clubs and societies to find out more about what they offer and how you can get involved. They’ll be available in the hub throughout the day.
Guaranteed accommodation
As a first-year student, 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 Blackfriars and Upper Quay.
The Accommodation team will also be available to answer any questions you have. Find them in the Business School atrium and get all the information you need about the range of accommodation options UoG has to offer.
Getting around
Use the Oxstalls 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 Pittville Student Village.
Explore your new home on campus
Oxstalls Campus is just a short walk from Gloucester city centre, home to Gloucester Rugby, the Cathedral where Harry Potter scenes were filmed and Gloucester Quays.
Oxstalls Campus and integrated Sports Park boast an international standard sports arena. Our students hone their coaching skills, train and play BUCS league games on our array of sports pitches which include 3G and 4G surfaces.
Our state-of-the-art Business School on Oxstalls Campus provides an inspiring environment for your learning and professional growth.
This centre for business opened in 2018 and facilities include teaching and meeting spaces, a business incubation centre, a Thomson Reuters trading room, a moot court room, board rooms, a consumer behaviour lab, and equipment on par with that of a global headquarters.
Our excellent sporting facilities include laboratories designed for you to learn via a hands-on approach. You can explore human performance by looking at gait and joint strength or use the 3D motion analysis system to analyse data in three dimensions.
Using the environmental chamber, you could be training athletes for the Marathon des Sables or even the Olympics. The Physiology lab allows you to carry out V̇O₂ max testing as well as measure lactose levels in the blood.
Over the last few years we have invested over £3.3m on health and social care facilities. These include a mock hospital ward and paramedic skills lab used by students to practise skills such as CPR.
Our clinical skills laboratory space is fitted with modern, state-of-the-art healthcare science equipment including industry-standard imaging facilities.
Our purpose-built Performing Arts Centre benefits from two large, harlequin sprung-floor dance studios, a multimedia suite and a devising studio.
These facilities also include a full lighting rig and sound, and an acoustically designed music and singing room.
Explore Gloucester
If you have time to spare, why not make your way into the centre of Gloucester and get a feel for this historic, vibrant city that you’ll call home.
It’s a 20 minute walk or short drive from Oxstalls and has some great options for shopping at the Quays and plenty of places to eat and drink in Gloucester Docks.
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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