Colchester Campus

Your departmental induction is your essential opportunity to learn more about your department and your course, and to talk with key members of staff like your personal tutor. You’ll also have the chance to meet the people you’re going to be studying with.

Your department will be in touch before you arrive with more details and we’ll also be sharing everything on our events pages.

Information may be shared with you by email or Moodle (our virtual learning platform that can be accessed once you have set up your Essex email account).

For more information, please see your department's induction webpage:

 Faculty of Arts and Humanities

• East 15 Acting School
• Edge Hotel School
• Essex Pathways
• Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
• Essex Law School
• School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies

 Faculty of Science and Health

• School of Life Sciences
• School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
• Department of Psychology
• School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
• School of Health and Social Care
• School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Science

Faculty of Social Sciences

• Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
• Department of Economics
• Essex Business School
• Department of Government
• Department of Language and Linguistics
• Department of Sociology and Criminology

The highlight of everyone's Welcome week is the Freshers' Fair, your chance to join societies, meet local businesses, and University services and of course get to know your Students' Union.

There will be loads of Welcome activities for you to get stuck into to help you settle in and get to know other students.

Check out all the events on the University events calendar and the SU events calendar.

We’re extremely lucky our Colchester Campus is based in a 200 acre award-winning parkland which provides an excellent outdoor escape where you can meet people, get some exercise or have a picnic.

Get to know your new home and the local area:

• Discover Wivenhoe Park
• Explore beyond the campus
• Check out the cycling facilities at our Colchester Campus
• Bus discounts for Essex students

Keeping fit and taking part in sport keeps both body and mind healthy.

From tennis to yoga, dance classes to climbing, there will be plenty of opportunities for you to get involved in sport, recreation and green exercise programmes. To find out what's on offer, visit our Essex Sport pages.

You will be able to volunteer and make a positive impact on the local community with our Students' Union VTeam (Volunteering Team). 

There will also be a variety of one-off programmes delivered throughout the year, such as photography workshops, art workshops, origami workshops, card games, karaoke, virtual celebrations of cultural events.

At Essex, we have your student nightlife completely sorted.

Grab some food in the SU Bar, play darts in Top Bar, catch a film at Cine10 or party up in our very state of the art on-campus nightclub, Sub Zero.