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Find out all you need to know about University of Exeter accommodation. Our blog has a wealth of information for both prospective and current students.

Returning students – Living in University accommodation is now an option.

Are you still looking for a place to live from September? You can now take the hassle out of looking in the private sector and enjoy the benefits in living in University accommodation.

So why choose to live in University accommodation as a returner?

Living in a University residence after your first year can be a great option for many reasons:

• As with your current contract, there are no extra costs for utility bills or internet etc.
• You can apply individually or as a group if you have friends you wish to live with
• There are a range of contract lengths, some with the option to stay during vacations
• With the residences on or close to campus facilities, you’ll have easy access to lectures, study space, cafes and shops, Sports Park and other amenities
• If you like, your meals can also be covered, either by choosing a catered residence or if you buy a meal package card
• Continue to enjoy the welcoming, safe and secure environment of student residences and support of services such as Estate Patrol and the Residence Life Team

Which residences are available to returners?

• St Davids – standard accommodation located conveniently across form the train station and just down the hill from the Streatham campus.
• Birks Grange Village Self-catered – standard accommodation within townhouses, located on the west side of the campus closer to the Sports Park
• Birks Grange Village Catered – En-suite rooms on the west side of the campus, closer to the Sports Park
• Lopes Hall – standard accommodation on the east side of the campus, a short walk into the city centre
• Ransom Pickard – standard accommodation on the east side of the campus, a short walk into the city centre

Can I view the residences before I apply?

We are currently planning  viewing days and will update the website with details as soon as we are can. Please note we will not be able to offer viewings of the Birks Grange Village townhouses.

In the meantime, take a look at the virtual tours of accommodation which give a really good idea of what each residence is like.

How do I apply?

Applications open from 9am on Tuesday 14 February and will be allocated on first-come; first-served basis. Find out more about how to apply on the Returners webpages.

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Studying in a new city or country is a big decision to make, and we understand how important it is to have somewhere to call 'home' during your time with us.

We know that postgraduate and PhD students have different needs to undergraduates, which is why our student residences have their own distinctive character and offer you a safe, secure environment to live and study in. 

If you are joining a taught postgraduate course which starts in January, please see our dedicated webpage for all relevant accommodation information. 

• Explore our Postgraduate Guide to Accommodation for an overview of Postgraduate living at Exeter. 
• Use the  Postgraduate Table to compare information about our accommodation, including rent prices and room types.  

These documents are also available in Chinese:

• Postgraduate Accommodation Guide 2024 (Chinese version)
• Postgraduate Accommodation Rates 2024 (Chinese version)

Why choose University managed accommodation?

• Dedicated postgraduate accommodation
• No guarantor required
• All-inclusive rents - no extra bills to pay
• Wifi and contents insurance included
• Managed maintenance
• We are committed to the Student Accommodation Code
• Our Accommodation Guarantee for students who meet the criteria, on courses starting in September and who apply before 31 July
• 24/7 campus security from our Estate Patrol Team
• Residence Life Team to help students settle in and provide advice
• Contract length choices to suit your studies

Meeting your needs  

• We welcome students from all walks of life into our accommodation. Find out more on the Widening Participation and student support webpages.
• To support individuals who, due to disability, a long-term medical condition, sensory or physical impairment, we are able to offer accessible accommodation .
• We offer a very limited number of flats for student couples in King Edward Court and Birks Grange Village studios . Take a look at our Applying page for further information.  
• If you are planning to come to University with your family, you may find our private accommodation information helpful.
• More detailed information for International students can be found on the International students webpage.

Our guarantee

We  guarantee to offer accommodation to all new unaccompanied i nternational postgraduates for the full academic year starting in September as long as you apply by 31 July in your year of entry. Note: You are defined as an international student if you pay  international fees .  

Applying and paying

Find out more about how and when to apply for University accommodation and how you’ll need to pay your accommodation fees .

If you are joining a taught postgraduate course which starts in January, please see our dedicated webpage for all relevant accommodation information.

If you are joining us in Exeter at any other time, please contact us 6-8 weeks before you want to arrive to discuss availability of our accommodation.  

Specific postgraduate course information

Programmes beginning in January

Studying for a PGCE means that you are likely to need short term accommodation with dates which do not align with our accommodation contracts. The Initial Teacher Education Partnership Office usually notifies trainees of their provisional placements in late July. They recommend that you do not commit yourself to long term accommodation until your placements are confirmed in the Autumn term. The Partnership Office has a database for accommodation across the region (excluding Exeter and surrounds) and you will have access to this when you commence the course.  

There is a wide range of private accommodation available in Exeter and surrounding areas and many support services here at the University to help with your accommodation search. Take a look at the Private Accommodation pages   for support with your search, including advice services and Studentpad , our online accommodation search site.  

MSc Financial Analysis and Fund Management (FAFM)

If you're joining our  MSc FAFM  course you will need to arrive to the University before the main academic year begins.  

• Very few of our residences can accept arrivals before Arrivals Weekend, so a temporary room, which you will need to pay for, is likely to be offered to you until your longer term residence contract begins.  
• There are a limited number of temporary rooms available for early arrivals, all in an off campus self catered residence, in mixed gender flats. We aim to group all FAFM students together in temporary accommodation.   
• If your term time room will be available within three days of your arrival date, we will not offer you a temporary room. You will need to seek alternative accommodation until your room is available.  
• When you complete your accommodation application form, state that you will be a FAFM student, and if you need to move in before Arrivals Weekend, you’ll also need to complete an  early arrival application form from early July in the year you start your course.   

MA International Film Business students

Joining our  MA International Film Business  programme means that you are likely to need short term accommodation in Exeter with dates which do not align with our accommodation contracts.  

MA Curation

Joining our  MA Curation: Art and Business programme  or  MA Curation: Contemporary Art and Cultural Management means that you are likely to need accommodation with dates which do not align with our accommodation contracts.  

There is a wide range of private accommodation available in Exeter and surrounding areas and many support services here at the University to help with your accommodation search. Take a look at the Private Accommodation pages   for support with your search, including advice services and Studentpad our online accommodation search site.

The proximity of Lafrowda to key university facilities and the attractive studio accommodations were the main factors that led me to choose it as my preferred accommodation. And I must say, it has been a decision that I'm grateful for, as it has contributed to a seamless and enjoyable university experience. Brian Pereira, Postgraduate Student, 2023  

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The Kingfisher is conveniently situated on Western Way for all of Exeter’s academic institutions and easy access to the shops, restaurants and bars. This stunning, unique development features a range of 203 superior studio student apartments providing everything you need for your busy student life. Each studio is beautifully furnished with plenty of storage so that you can cook, relax and study in your own space.

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As you make your way down Exeter’s Western Way, through the relaxing streets, you’ll probably realise pretty quickly that Exeter has more than a few options when it comes to student accommodation. It won’t be until you step inside the Kingfisher, find your room, and start unpacking that you realise that the Kingfisher offers the best student accommodation in the city.

Centrally located, the Kingfisher is right in the middle of everything that matters. The University of Exeter is only a short fifteen-minute walk away from the Kingfisher, making getting to the university incredibly easy.

To the west, on Sidwell Street, you’ll find more than a few fine dining establishments – including local establishments such as Efes Grill, as well as chain restaurants such as KFC and Domino’s Pizza. To the southwest of the Kingfisher, you’ll find specialist supermarkets, as well as the larger Princesshay Shopping Centre. To both the north and south, you’ll find first-rate cinema experiences – great for an evening out. Going eastwards, you’ll find Belmont Park – a great spot if you’re looking to get into nature on a busy day. If you’re looking to go further afield, Exeter Central train station is less than ten minute’s walk.

But these are only some of the things you’ll find near the Kingfisher. Scroll below to learn more. Even better, book a visit to The Kingfisher today and discover Exeter yourself!

The Kingfisher is Downing Students’ latest generation of luxury student apartments and new to Exeter. It’s conveniently situated on Western Way for all of Exeter’s academic institutions and is also a stone’s throw from the shops, restaurants and bars of lively Sidwell Street.

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Create content for Downing Students’ social media channels and get rewarded. We’re always looking for students to showcase life at university across our social channels.  This could be anything from room tours, capturing events on site or exploring your city and showing us what’s around your accommodation. Message us on Instagram @downing_students if you would like to become a content creator.

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We pride ourselves in offering great service to our residents, from ensuring our buildings are safe, taking delivery of parcels or just being a friendly face to talk to.  There is always a member of our team available to help.

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Our site teams arrange amazing events from DJs and quiz nights to skill workshops, games nights and well-being sessions to ensure there is something for everyone.   We believe it is a great opportunity to get to know other residents.

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Use the St Luke's virtual map , or help yourself to a physical Self-Guided Tour map from any of our building receptions and student hubs.

Follow the numbered circular route around some of our key buildings on campus.

Click on a building name in the dropdowns below to virtually see inside buildings and find out more.

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Central tour

1. Info Point

Info Point at St Luke’s is a central point for all users on campus. Includes the Student Information Desk (SID), 24 hour security team. Additional Security services include Careers and Employability services, Wellbeing Teams and the Guild Space 

2. South Cloisters

In recent years, £12.7 million has been invested into developing a modern campus with a strong emphasis on health and wellbeing at St Luke’s. As part of this project, a £10.5 million redevelopment of the South Cloisters building was completed in 2015 to create a modern, high-quality, state-of-the-art research and education facility. This includes a new extension wing to provide centrally-bookable learning and teaching spaces for 255 students, 120 extra student study spaces and new facilities for our Medical Imaging programme. We have also extended the reach of our healthcare professional training by creating a new University of Exeter Academy of Nursing. By creating this Academy, the University not only contributes to meeting the needs of our health care delivery partners regionally, but also provides a model for excellence in nursing education globally. The Students’ Guild have an outlet in South Cloisters, which is manned by Guild staff for student queries, and it also contains social space and a food prep area for student use.  Here in the College of Medicine and Health, we have three programmes that have clinical placements (Medicine, Medical Imaging and Nursing) and you could be placed at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital site (RD&E).

Nursing: Fifty percent of your time will be spent in clinical practice. Placements are organised in blocks that range from seven to eleven weeks. By the end of year one you will have had exposure to mental health and primary care settings, as well as two core practice placements in an acute hospital setting. By the end of year two you will have had exposure to mental health, learning disability, child, maternity and primary care settings, as well as three core practice placements in acute or community settings.

Medical Imaging: You’ll go on placements for 16 weeks each year, allowing you to fully integrate into your team and understand the full clinical experience. This full-time three-year programme includes clinical placements in hospitals across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, which stretch into the summer vacation and, as such, this programme is longer than those in other subjects. You will have three clinical placements as part of the degree programme, where you will attend a different placement site for four months during each year. Around fifty percent of your time will be spent in clinical practice. Each clinical block is about 4 months in length. You go to a different placement site for each of your years of study.

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3. Giraffe House

Giraffe House is a new study centre. The centre is available to all students from 8.00am till 9.30pm increasing during exam and revision periods. Explain that it is a quiet study area, so you won’t take the tour group inside, but they can look through the door. The facilities include: 120 student study spaces with 37 PC s provided, 3 group study rooms, Quiet study area, “Railway carriage” study booths, Print, copy and scan facility, Plenty of power sockets.  

Smeall is the home of APEx (Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care).

5. Richard's Building

Inside this building there are various purpose-built teaching and research laboratories used by undergraduate students throughout their degree programmes. Most of the tutors and course leaders for this course are based within the building. The building also houses a state of the art AV suite available solely for students in the Sports and Health Sciences and Nutrition cohorts.   

6. Exeter Medical School

The University of Exeter formed its own Medical School following a successful 10-year partnership with Plymouth University in the Peninsula Medical School – it took its first entrants in 2013. The school is based in Exeter but operates across the South West giving students the choice of living and working in locations such as Exeter, Torbay, Plymouth and Truro.  The LSRC is one of the main teaching and learning environments used by the medical programmes. The Centre supports learning of the biomedical sciences that underpin clinical practice. Sessions within LSRC involve active learning where students are asked to engage in activities that require them to think about what they are doing, rather than passively receiving information. The LSRC also has evening opening for self-study with access to resources. 

Medicine:   Extensive exposure to real patients in clinical settings underpins the development of your clinical skills. This experience will help you become an expert in the clinical environment. In your clinical placements during the first two years, you’ll experience how healthcare is delivered in both the community and hospital. You will normally meet your first patient within the first few weeks of your first year. During your placements, you’ll also learn from patients about the breadth of diseases and health problems in a community and the effect of social and environmental factors on disease. This will help you to understand the multi-professional nature of medicine and the importance of the wider healthcare team.

Access to the digital resources is 24/7 and available from wherever you are in the world. The digital library collection is larger than the print collection; what’s on the shelves is only a small proportion of what’s available, 90% of library journals are available online, 50 – 60% of library books are available online. St Luke’s library specifically supports medicine, sports science and education. It is open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week during the academic year, It has over 180 study seats, 40 computers, It has a 24 hour access computer room, 29 computers, It has a 24 hour access study room, 36 seats, It has a mix of individual, group and silent study areas  Here in the College of Medicine and Health, we have three programmes that have clinical placements (Medicine, Medical Imaging and Nursing) and you could be placed at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital site (RD&E)

8. Sports Centre

Sports facilities at Exeter are spread onto four different sites – some of the best sports facilities in the south west. Many of the facilities (Astro/water based/rubber crumb pitches, indoor tennis courts, squash courts, brand new gym called the Russell Seal Centre, etc.) are available on the Streatham Campus. Over six football pitches and two rugby pitches are available on University grounds near the Quay in Exeter (Duckes Meadows). About 10 minutes’ drive away (in Topsham) are county standard football/cricket and rugby pitches also owned by the University. Lastly, the building in front of you houses the remaining facilities. There are two sports halls, (one fully kitted out for 5-a-side football), one gymnasium equipped with cardio-vascular equipment (recently benefitted from at £50k investment in some state-of-the-art new gym equipment) and a heated indoor swimming pool. Students studying on St Luke’s also regularly use the facilities on the Streatham Campus

9. Baring Court

The ground floor is used by the Graduate School of Education to simulate the classroom experience (if you look through the glass windows on the right hand side, you will see the ‘set’ of a primary school classroom!).  The ground floor also houses the internationally renowned Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre. The centre is devoted to the study of the exercising child and aims to initiate research in paediatric exercise science and disseminate the findings. The top two floors have small lecture theatres and seminar rooms.  We also have teaching labs and brand new teaching kitchen for Nutrition students.  

10. Cross Keys

Cross Keys is the social hub of St Luke’s. The ground floor has been upgraded and refurbished and a first floor extension added. It is a great place to relax and enjoy drink/lunch. There is ample seating space and a quiet space on the first floor. This is the main social space for staff and students and the space can be booked outside of opening hours for socials and events. 

11. North Cloisters

One of the main lecture theatres on campus is located in North Cloisters, along with the offices of academic staff from the Graduate School of Education. North Cloisters and the attached Chapel are steeped in history, being the oldest part of the campus. Today the Graduate School of Education offers a range of postgraduate teaching programmes at both Primary and Secondary level as well as a variety of research based programmes. Also in North Cloisters is a state-of-the-art teaching laboratory for the Medical Sciences programmes, which contains a range of standard equipment you’d expect to see within a modern teaching laboratory as well as some more specialist equipment such as a fluorescent microscope, physiological activity recording setups, close-circuit video recording and streaming system for teaching, and tissue culture facilities.  

12. The Quad

The Quad, is extremely popular amongst students here, particularly during the summer when it is used as tennis and volleyball courts as well as for other sports such as frisbee, or as a place to relax in the sun. It is also used to host the very popular summer ball that takes place towards the end of the third term. 

13. Rowancroft

Although the majority of our student halls are located on campus, some University accommodation is located offsite. These include Point Exe, James Owen Court, Northfield and Rowancroft where we are now. There are three different types of accommodation available within the Rowancroft complex. Rowancroft Mews are flats of 5 with shared kitchens and bathrooms. New Rowancroft are flats of varied sizes all en-suite with shared kitchens. Rowancroft Studios provide students with the opportunity to live in self-contained flats. 

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