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Our Medway campus
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Medway campus
Our Medway campus reinvents a former naval base as a 21st-century study space, which makes for an unusual and dramatic backdrop to your studies.
The campus has two sites, both of which house fantastic facilities for our professionally focused courses. The Pembroke site is home to the Drill Hall Library, various cafés, and our Student Hub. The Dockyard is a remarkable space, providing a dramatic and inspiring backdrop for your studies and home to our Centre for Music and Audio Technology. It is also one of the busiest film locations in the South East and a real creative hub for the area. Our student accommodation is less than half an hour’s walk from campus.
We share the campus with two other universities which creates a lively and friendly atmosphere and there are lots of local students on campus who can help you to discover the area.
If you want to explore Kent’s campus at Canterbury, the University provides a free shuttle bus that runs between each location during term time.
Yemurai MacHacha, Finance & Investment
Drill Hall Library
A focal point on the Pembroke site, the Drill Hall has extensive online and print resources, spaces for silent, individual and group study and expert staff on hand to help.
Bringing a historic site back to life
Historic buildings such as the Drill Hall have been renovated and adapted for study. They sit alongside award-winning modern buildings creating a unique campus environment.
And relax
The Deep End hosts regular events, including film screenings, theme nights and guest DJ spots. There’s a café too, serving tasty food throughout the day.
The Pilkington Building
We share the Medway campus with two other universities and the Pilkington Building, with its large café, is a place where students from all universities get together.
Into the towns
The Medway campus is close to Rochester and Chatham with their excellent facilities and intriguing histories. In both towns, there are lots of places to stop for coffee or lunch, and you’ll also find bars and restaurants down by the riverside.
Why our students love Medway
There’s lots of options. Rochester’s impressive cathedral is well worth a visit, and there’s a good mix of well-known high-street names and independent shops to explore. While Chatham is home to two theatres, the Dockside retail outlet and a whole host of excellent sporting facilities.
The Strand is ideal for taking it easy by the water on a sunny day and Capstone Farm Country Park has an excellent cycle trail.
Further afield, there’s Bluewater: 300 stores, a multiplex cinema, a nature trail, a trampoline park, an urban beach, boating on the lake, as well as lots of restaurants – what’s not to like?
Day trips
Chatham Snowsports Centre – Less than an hour from campus by bus, you can ride the longest toboggan run in the UK, show off your skiing skills, or take the easy route and slide down the slope in a sno-tube. Great stress-buster!
Margate – Take the train from Chatham and you can be in Margate in an hour. As well as the sandy beach, there is the wonderful Turner Contemporary gallery, the iconic Dreamland amusement park, lots of vintage shops and plenty of places to buy chips and candyfloss.
London – London is around an hour away, giving you a great opportunity to explore one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.
Zaid Mahmood believes fate brought him to Kent and describes his experience here as ‘amazing’. As well as enjoying his course, impressed with its wide range of modules covering all areas of business, he became a student rep and President of the student-run Business Society, managing to keep people in touch with each other, even through a pandemic. He also became a host of Kent Business School’s Spill the B podcast.
To add to his skill set, Zaid has decided to add a year in data analytics to his degree, keeping him a step ahead of the competition.
Zaid Mahmood, Business & Management with a Year in Data Analytics Enrolling on a Music, Performance and Production degree at Kent was just what Caitlin needed to break out of the mould that had been imposed on her. She added singing to her repertoire, had vocal tuition, and has since performed in several concerts. She feels she’s developed a lot as a musician, and as a person.
Caitlin is also working with school pupils, as part of her paid student ambassador role. She visits local schools to help music students with their playing and their coursework. Fantastic experience for this aspiring secondary-school teacher.
Caitlin Fox, Music, Performance and Production
Having studied Psychology, Biology and History at A level, Evangeline Agyeman wasn’t sure which course to study at uni. She settled on Social Sciences because this broad subject allowed her to take a criminology and psychology pathway. Evangeline is enjoying her course, taught by lecturers who are passionate about their subject. She’s impressed with the support too: “There’s a lot of support available here. The lecturers make it clear you can email them if you need help. The Student Learning and Advisory Service offers help in areas like referencing. And then there’s the library, which is massive!”
Evangeline Agyeman, Social Sciences
Willis Atherley-Bourne is studying Social Work. A mature student with 23 years’ experience in counselling and psychotherapy, Willis wanted to develop his knowledge of statutory requirements to support his aim of working with children and families. Being taught by lecturers who have experience of social work practice was one of the attractions of Kent’s course, as were the excellent facilities on campus: “The library is amazing. The online access is invaluable, as it means I can access resources 22 hours a day.”
Willis Atherley-Bourne, Social Work
