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Northumbria University is a modern university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.

Northumbria offers approximately 500 study programmes through nine Schools:

• Applied Sciences
• Arts and Social Sciences
• Built Environment
• Design
• Health, Community and Education
• Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
• Law
• Newcastle Business School
• Psychology and Sports Sciences

The University has two campuses. The main campus, located in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, is known as the City Campus. With the construction of a new building for degree courses such as business the City Campus has been spilt in two. It now has City Campus East and City Campus West.

A secondary campus is located a five miles (8 km) outside of Newcastle, on Coach Lane, and is known as the Coach Lane Campus at Cochrane Park near the A188 (Benton Road). It is in the Dene ward near Longbenton and round the corner from large Dept. Work & Pensions offices, accessible via the Four Lane Ends Interchange. The Coach Lane Campus is home to School of Health, Community and Education Studies only, all others schools are located at the City Campus.

The University is currently involved in a £100+ million development project to improve and expand its city campus. This includes a new state-of-the-art 7-acre (28,000 m2) site to be known as City Campus East, adjacent to the main campus, which will house the Schools of Law, Design and the Newcastle Business School. This expansion opened on time in September 2007. Now completed, the building boasts showers, law courts, a library, several seminar rooms and three lecture theaters. It also has several IT hubs, and a cafe. It is within walking distance of Quay point and Camden court (5 mins) Student Residence, and is located directly outside Manors Metro station.

The development project suffered a setback when, on 9 April 2007, a building that was to be student flats burned to the ground during the night. The nearby School of Design also suffered minor heat damage before the blaze was brought under control.

Improvements to the City Campus West are also ongoing, and include a new footbridge linking the East and West Campuses across the central motorway, pedestrianisation and greening of the integrated teaching environment. This footbridge was officially opened early in 2008.

The next stage of the redevelopment of City Campus West is a new vehicular access route to the north of the campus from Sandyford Road. Demolition of Northumberland Annexe is now complete and work will shortly commence on a state of the art Sports Centre containing a swimming pool. The long term plan is for Northumberland Road to be pedestrianised. Sutherland Building is earmarked to be the home of Administrative Departments using the space vacated when the School of Law moved to City Campus East.

Go to Northumbria University official website