Colchester Campus
The full address of our Colchester Campus is:
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1206 873333
- Two miles from the historic centre of Colchester – England's oldest
recorded town
- Set in over 200 acres of beautiful parkland
- Home to sixteen of our academic departments and schools
- More than 9,000 students (6,600 undergraduates)
- More than 130 different nationalities
- Just one hour from London
Colchester Campus SAT NAV directions
SAT NAV directions to the University using our
postcode can be misleading therefore, it is recommended to follow roadside
directional sign posts to the University.
Uniquely international
Students from more than 130 countries come to our Colchester
Campus to study at our leading departments, schools, centres
and research institutes. This makes Essex one of the most culturally diverse
campus universities in the UK.
You can get to the
Colchester Campus from Stansted Airport in under an hour by car
or coach.
Historic location
We are located in picturesque and historic parkland just outside Colchester
so you have plenty of open space to relax in after your studies. The park was
originally landscaped in the eighteenth century and was painted by celebrated
landscape artist John Constable.
Making student life easier and friendlier
The Campus was originally designed to be a university town with all
facilities on one site. Within easy walking distance you will find teaching
buildings, award-winning student accommodation, shops, banks, a gallery and a
theatre, bars and cafés, and sports facilities.
This helps create the friendly and diverse campus atmosphere of which we are
extremely proud. One of the advantages of a compact campus is that you will
quickly get to know people, can easily get around and can get involved in a
whole range of activities without having to travel too far.
Our buildings
Our Colchester Campus was originally built in the 1960s and the bustling,
inter-linked squares were designed by architect Kenneth Capon to encourage
academics from different departments based around them to work together. This
helped nurture the interdisciplinary nature of teaching and research at Essex.
Recent years have seen the opening of the award-winning 1,000-seat Ivor Crewe
Lecture Hall and the conversion of our old boiler house into the
state-of-the-art Teaching Centre. Further ambitious building projects are
planned including the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution on the new
Knowledge Gateway site.