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University of Essex homepage Events Colchester Clearing Open Day 2025
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Colchester Clearing Open Day

Join us at our Colchester Clearing Open Day to see where you could be calling home. 

  • Sat 16 Aug 25

    10:00 - 15:00

  • Colchester Campus

    Colchester Campus

  • Event type

    Open Days

  • Event organiser

    Corporate events

  • Contact details

    Open Days team

Are you thinking of coming to University in October 2025 but haven't visited Essex yet? Here's your chance!

Come to our Clearing Open Day at our Colchester Campus.

Maybe you've applied but haven't visited us yet, or perhaps you want to see our Colchester Campus for yourself before taking the plunge - whatever the reason, everyone is welcome. Bring your friends and family along too!

The Clearing Open Day at our Colchester Campus is on Saturday 16 August.

Attending an Open Day will give you a chance to get to know Essex if you haven't visited us yet (or if you've been to see us already and just fancy another look around).

On the day, you'll be able to see our accommodation, get a tour of campus, meet some of our academics, chat to current students and student services.

Please make sure you check-in when you arrive - you'll even get a goody bag!

What can you expect?

On the day you'll be able to:

  • Tour campus and view a range of our accommodation types
  • Meet academic staff from your undergraduate subject area of choice
  • Chat to staff from Accommodation, Admissions and Student Finance
  • Meet members of our Students' Union Team
  • Listen to a range of talks 

There will also be lots of extra things to get involved with on the day.

Programme  

Activity  Time 

Welcome talk

You’ll receive a warm welcome and an overview of the University of Essex.

10.15am

Accommodation at Essex talk

We'll give you an overview of each type of on-campus student accommodation available to undergraduate students and will let you know what is available to see on the day.

11.00am

Clearing and next steps talk

We'll talk you through everything related to Clearing, including how to apply to Essex through Clearing, how to get released into Clearing and how to add a Clearing choice.

11.45am

Foundation years at Essex talk

Find out more about the foundation year, including the courses that are available to you, how the foundation year is structured and the support available during the foundation year.

12.30pm

Next steps: student finance talk

We will take you through the finance options available to you, how to submit an application and how to update an existing application.

1.15pm

Campus and accommodation tours

Tours of our campus are guided by our Student Ambassadors; they run on an ad hoc basis and last around 30 minutes. Head to the Tour and Accommodation
Zone to find out more about the accommodation we are showing and grab a map to guide you to our accommodation points. The last tours will depart at 2.30pm. 

10.00am - 2.30pm

Department and facility tours

We will be running tours of the following department spaces and facilities:

Science, Electronics & Laboratory (including STEM Centre)

11.00am & 12.45pm

Arts & Humanities

11.15am

Essex Business School

11.30am & 1.15pm

Health and Social Care (please note this does not include Oral Health Sciences facilities)

11.45am & 1.45pm

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences

12.00pm (midday)

Common room and study spaces

12.15pm

   

Students sitting in deckchairs on the Squares
Book onto one of our Clearing Open Days

Book your place for one of our on-campus Clearing Open Days and we'll make sure you have all of the information you need to make the most out of your day. 

Book now

Clearing Campus Tours


If you’re not able to make it to our Clearing Open Day, don’t worry, you can book a Clearing Campus Tour instead and chose a time that suits you. Simply book a timeslot and we look forward to welcoming you soon.

Getting to us

Travelling by car

Whether approaching our Colchester Campus from London and the South or Ipswich and the North via the A12, take the exit marked Colchester (A133). Follow the A133 towards Clacton-on-Sea, ignore the entrance to the Knowledge Gateway, continue along the A133 then take the B1028 for Wivenhoe before turning right onto Boundary Road.

Parking

Please follow the Open Day car parking signs which will lead you to our allocated visitor parking, in Valley car park, lane 1. Parking during our Open Day is free. Our patrol staff should be on hand to show you where to go. The address of our Colchester Campus is:

University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ

If you are using a SatNav, please use the following postcode, CO4 3FA as this will direct you to the south side of our Colchester Campus, where you'll find Valley car park.

Travelling by bus or train

There are frequent trains from London Liverpool Street Station to Colchester with connections to Ipswich, Norwich, Felixstowe, Harwich and beyond.

We have three train stations in Colchester: Colchester Town, Colchester Hythe and Colchester North Station (also referred to as Colchester Main Station). Colchester North Station is the largest and has the best bus and taxi links so we recommend using this station. There is a taxi rank and bus stop at the station. The following buses will lead you to campus:

Route 87

Route S1

Further information about bus travel in Colchester can be found on the First Bus website and more information about travelling to our Colchester Campus can be found here.

Travel bursary

We appreciate that travelling to university events can be expensive and with rising costs, we want to ensure that as many of our prospective students as possible are able to visit us. We are therefore offering a bursary of up to £75 to help with travel costs to our Open Days.

Take a look at the terms and conditions (.pdf) and you can complete an online travel bursary form after checking in at the event, or after the event, you will receive an email with a link to complete the form. If you have any questions, please contact us at opendays@essex.ac.uk.

Find out how to get to our Colchester Campus here.

Discounted accommodation

To allow you to soak up the atmosphere on campus, we are offering discounted student accommodation either the night before the Clearing Open Day (15 August) or the night of the Clearing Open Day (16 August). Each room is a single en-suite bedroom for single use, costing £40.

Bookers under the age of 18 years old will need to be accompanied by adult, staying in a separate room.

To secure your discounted room, visit this link and use the promotion code "VIP". 

Get in touch
Our Student Recruitment Events Team Email: opendays@essex.ac.uk
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