Lanarkshire Campus

Ultra-Modern

Discover the future of learning at UWS Lanarkshire Campus, Scotland’s brand new ultra-modern university campus.

The £110m campus embodies the UWS vision to provide 21st century, student-centred, personalised, distinctive learning and teaching experiences. With its technology-rich, innovative learning and social spaces UWS Lanarkshire is at the forefront of modern learning environments, significantly enriching the educational journey of our students.

Innovative learning suites provide high-tech, flexible and collaborative spaces to deliver teaching in a powerfully effective and modern way. The campus represents a shift in the way learning and teaching is defined in the higher education sector in Scotland and across the UK. Thanks to the new campus and its flexible and collaborative spaces specifically designed to equip students with the skills most valuable to industry, students will graduate having experienced ground-breaking learning, putting them at a significant advantage as they embark on their chosen careers.

Collaborative

UWS Lanarkshire Campus is the place to collaborate.

The UWS Lanarkshire campus promotes enhanced collaboration 24/7 and supports continuous innovation between students, staff, and academics and outside organisations thanks to its flexible learning environments. The design reflects the UWS belief in the transformative power of co-created learning. Every space offers an area to learn and collaborate, with a range of facilities to choose from to support students in their studies. The spaces have been specifically designed to equip students with the skills most desired by industry, including collaboration, creativity and communication, meaning students graduate having experienced ground-breaking learning, putting them at a significant advantage as they embark on their chosen career.

The three campus buildings are joined by “The Street” – a bright and airy work and social space for students, staff and the local community.

Students are benefiting from the chance to work closely with more than 80 local, national and international businesses, offering practical opportunities to gain experience during their university career. Businesses on Hamilton International Park have the opportunity to collaborate with the University on a range of research, enterprise and commercialisation activities.

Sustainability

One of the UK's greenest universities.

The UWS Lanarkshire campus is a sustainable space for sustainable minds and is one of the UK’s greenest educational environments. It’s an energy neutral development, powered by 100% renewable energy from a nearby windfarm, UWS Lanarkshire benefits from a range of important environmental features, including rainwater harvesting technology, back-up, on-site photovoltaic panels, a building management system, electric car charging points and even compostable cutlery.

Student and staff welfare is at the heart of the campus with excellent health, fitness and wellbeing facilities provided within a state-of-the-art gym, which, as well as being open to students and staff, is also be available for use by the local community and businesses based in the Hamilton International Park. After a work-out or a study session, our modern restaurant and catering facilities ensure you’re re-fuelled and there’s plenty of green spaces to meet-up and socialise in, enhancing the sense of community at UWS.

Connected

At UWS Lanarkshire Campus, wherever you are, you’re always connected.

From campus-wide charging stations to powerful, campus-wide Wi-Fi and even Wi-Fi on UWS-branded buses, you won’t lose connection. Thanks to our partnership with First Bus there’s a direct service to and from the university on a regular basis connecting you to all the major travel hubs. The campus is within easy reach of central Scotland’s motorway network and there’s 1,000 secure car parking spaces available.

Students and staff can stay connected at the many social spaces, including The Hub, The Street or the library, which are one-stop-shops for support and enquiries.

The campus is open 24/7, 365 days a year ensuring access to online resources and services including eBooks and academic journal databases around the clock, so whether you’re a night owl or an early bird, you can harness your most productive time of day to get work done.  

Research, Enterprise & Opportunity

UWS Lanarkshire Campus is an innovation powerhouse providing a wealth of research and enterprise opportunities.

Designed with research-driven innovative learning and teaching in mind, its location with enterprise enables seamless collaboration between academia and business and provides a talent-rich pipeline of work-ready, industry-focused and highly talented students right on their doorstep.

The campus offers first-class research and development opportunities, and hosts Scotland’s newest simulated nursing and midwifery teaching environment as well as Scotland’s highest-specification environmental chamber – one of only two in the country and the only one in the West of Scotland. The chamber will replicate environmental extremes for athletes.

UWS invites businesses to come and use its first-class facilities, including a 236-capacity auditorium, 38-60 capacity executive boardroom, 128-capacity conference space and an executive lounge.