We know you’re going to have a brilliant time here. There’s a lot to think about before starting university so we have put together some information you will find useful before you arrive and for your first few weeks at uni, to get your student life off to the best possible start.
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Learn – find out about your course and subject area
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Life – student life at the University of Brighton
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Work – employability built into your studies
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IT requirements for your course
What’s coming up and key dates:
- Check your course start date in your offer letter in Student View
- 10 August: results day
- 16 August: complete online enrolment
- Attend Belong at Brighton get ready online events – there’ll be lots to choose from across the summer – we’ll email you to let you know more
Before you start
Information you need before starting
Complete your checklist everything you need to do before starting on your course
Log into My Brighton find out about reading lists, course handbooks, LinkedIn learning resources and your pre-entry academic activities.
Explore your subject
Browse your subject area on this Art Design Architecture Media blog.
Visit the School of Architecture and Design blog for information from architecture, interiors and product design courses.
Visit the Summer Shows 2021
Our brilliant graduating students normally show their work in our gallery spaces, on catwalks and in London design shows. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic means that this won’t be happening in 2021. Instead students will be showing their work digitally – check out the Brighton Exhibitions website.
Take a 360 tour of the campus and some of our facilities
Our art, design, media production, photography, film, sound, humanities and history of art courses are based on our Grand Parade, Brighton campus.
- Grand Parade tour
See the reception, ceramics workshop, gallery, cafe, restaurant, metal workshop, postgraduate study area, Sallis Benney theatre, weave workshop and wood workshop.
View virtual tour - Edward Street building
View the foyer, atrium with computer facilities, gallery area, shared workspaces, photographic studios and photography workshop.
View virtual tour - Mithras House
See the foyer, restaurant and one of our lecture theatres
View virtual tour
Subject-specific facilities
- Architecture
View our architecture workshops, laser cutting room, photography studio and reprographics facilities
View virtual tour - 3D design and craft facilities
Tour our many workshops and studio spaces
View virtual tour - Digital music and sound arts
See our studios, sound booth, computer suite, sound diffusion lab and performance studio
View virtual tour - Fine art
Tour our fine art studio and workshop
View virtual tour - Graphic design
See the book arts and letterpress rooms
View virtual tour - Media production
See our photo studio, TV studio control room, TV studio, audio suite and edit suite
View virtual tour - Product design
See our product design studios, workshops and the creativity suite
View virtual tour - Journalism – new facilities coming soon!
If you have any questions you can always chat to staff and students before you arrive visit www.brighton.ac.uk/chat
After results day
Look out for our emails telling you about enrolment. Follow our instructions and once you’ve enrolled online you’ll have access to:
- our online learning environment and be able to download the MyBrighton app.
- reading lists, course handbooks, LinkedIn learning resources and your pre-entry academic activities.
Stay in touch
- Make sure you look out for our emails, attend our ‘get ready for uni’ online events and subscribe to this blog.
- Got any questions before you start? You can also chat to a current student online.
Visit our ‘starting at uni’ pages on our website to find out more about what to expect and what you need to do before you get here.