Self-Guided Campus Tours

Fulton House

Fulton House is a Grade II listed building that is home to many of the University’s facilities and hospitality. The ground floor houses Costcutter supermarket, Fulton Outfitters Merchandise Store, Greggs, and Tortilla.

The Refectory is located on the first floor, with Uni Food Hub available for a click and collect service and a terrace overlooking the stunning views of Swansea Bay. On the second floor, there is our Students’ Union Bar and Coffee Shop – JCs – which serves a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. JC’s hosts several student social events, such as karaoke nights and pub quizzes and is equipped with pool tables and TV’s. Fulton House also houses numerous seminar teaching rooms and accompanying event spaces.

As you leave through the main entrance of Fulton House, turn left and bear left between the side of Fulton House and the Digital Technium. The path between these two buildings situates most of the amenities offered in Singleton Campus.

Amenities

On Singleton Park Campus, students are provided with a range of amenities. On the right, we have the Lighthouse Faith Centre, where you can escape from the busy atmosphere and relax. There is a chill out area with two comfy sofas and a coffee table for anyone to come and relax from the busy atmosphere. We also have a small kitchen where you can unwind with a cup of tea or a mug of hot fresh coffee. There is also a Quiet Room for both students and staff for prayer, meditation, or mindfulness.

Based on the ground floor of Penmaen (located behind Fulton house) the University Health Centre is an NHS General Practice that provides friendly comprehensive medical services. On the right of Penmaen building, there is also a separate Dental Surgery based in the Horton Building that offers a full range of NHS and private treatments.

Within Horton building, there is a well-being center, offering support, advice, and information to help people improve their own health and wellbeing. Horton also houses Student Accommodation Services (SAS lettings), a joint venture between Residential Services and the Students’ Union, offering students good quality (off campus) student housing.

As you walk left and past Penmaen, you will see the range of other accommodation buildings available for student on-campus living at Singleton.

Accommodation

We have a variety of different accommodation types on Singleton Park Campus: self-catered, part-catered, standard, and en-suite rooms to suite everyone’s needs and budget.

Approximately 1,300 students are housed in our on-campus accommodation, which consists of a range of self-catered and part-catered flats housing between 8 and 16 students. The original campus hall blocks – Kilvey, Preseli, Cefn Bryn and Rhossili have all been recently refurbished on the inside to increase the amount of living space available to students and introduce larger kitchens and bathrooms. The smaller hall blocks of Oxwich, Langland and Caswell are all self-catered and en-suite accommodation. The newest accommodation blocks are Penmaen and Horton and these are all en-suite and self-catered.

There is contents insurance with Endsleigh provided and Wi-Fi in all residences and across campus. There are designated areas including quiet, mature, and alcohol-free. Campus Security and Welfare Wardens are on hand 24/7. Turn Left from Preseli accommodation and walk towards the Richard Price Building.

Richard Price Building

The Richard Price Building is home to the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. The School of Law has strong links with industry, and offers a full range of experiential learning opportunities, including mooting, client interviewing and negotiations. There is also an extensive range of further postgraduate study opportunities that prepare students for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). This building also benefits from a newly developed creative suite, for Postgraduate Research students and staff to conduct collaborative activity within their own communities and with external stakeholders/partners.

If you continue walking towards the front of Singleton campus and bear right, you will locate the Institute of Life Science and Data Science buildings.

ILS 1, ILS 2 and Data Science

Institute of Life Science 1 & 2 was a £100m development in world-leading teaching and research facilities for Life Sciences and Medical Research. The two buildings are part of the Medical School and also house over six floors of state-of-the-art research laboratories, a number of ‘incubation’ units, offering rental space to start-up companies working in the area of Life Science and facilities for Medical Engineering, Science, Health Sciences, Clinical Imaging and Clinical Trials. Undergraduate programs in Genetics/Medical Genetics and Biochemistry/Medical Biochemistry are also based in these two buildings.

The Data Science building is the newest building on the Singleton Park campus and is a hub for research in Health Informatics—Swansea is the only University in the UK to offer this as an Undergraduate Degree.

Located behind these buildings is Singleton Hospital and The Swansea Bay Sports Park. The Swansea Bay Sports Park can be reached by walking through the grounds of Singleton Hospital.

Swansea Bay Sports Park

The Swansea Bay Sports Park is home to the Wales National Pool, which is one of British Swimming’s Performance Centres, housing a 50m Olympic size pool and 25m warm-up pool. The pool is the training base for many elite level athletes, including four-time Paralympic Gold Medallist Ellie Simmonds.

The Swansea Bay Sports Park has a multi-purpose sports hall, three squash courts, and a fully equipped fitness room with over 80 stations. These facilities were recently enhanced to include a new 8-lane athletics track, two outdoor all-weather pitches and an indoor training centre for athletics. Turn left at the ILS1 and follow the road down between the Glyndwr and Wallace Buildings.

Glyndŵr and Vivian Tower 

To the left-hand side is the Glyndŵr and Vivian Tower, home to many of our Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science subjects, as well as Physics. Some subjects include Nursing, Midwifery, Paramedic Science, Osteopathy, Audiology, Medical Physics, Clinical Technology Medical Science, Occupational Therapy and Psychology. Working closely with local NHS Health Boards, the Faculty offers a range of practice rooms creating an authentic clinical environment for healthcare disciplines including Healthcare Science subjects, Paramedic Science and Nursing. Each room replicates a wide range of realistic clinical settings. We also have several specialised laboratories that include an EMG/ECG psychophysiological measurement used by our psychology department. Psychology was placed top in the UK for the impact made by their research.

Directly next to Glyndŵr is the Grove Building.

Grove Building

Grove is home to Chemistry and Medicine, training Doctors and Life Scientists. The facilities include an Anatomy Suite, Clinical Skills Lab, Pharmacy Suites and the ICM as well as brand new purpose-built Chemistry laboratories which were opened in 2017. These teaching spaces allow students to learn more about clinical practice in a simulation setting.

Directly opposite the main entrance to the Glyndŵr and Grove Building is the Wallace Building.

Wallace Building

Wallace is home to Biosciences and Geography. Swansea University has invested £4.2m on a new suite of Labs, as well as a unique £1.3m Visualisation Centre. Facilities include a computer cluster and ingenious in-house software, specially designed to deal with data from tags monitoring the movement of animals to display multi-dimensional information in innovative configurations on our research vessel, the RV Mary Anning, which is used for teaching and project work. Wallace also houses The Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research, CSAR, equipped with modern, fully programmable recirculating aquaculture systems, CSAR carries out applied research on a diverse range of aquatic organisms, from temperate to tropical and marine to freshwater environments. Physics is also based here with their optics lab and teaching laboratory.

Back on the University campus, follow the path along the front of Fulton House (on your left) until you arrive at the Digital Technium.

Digital Technium 

The Digital Technium is the central hub for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences on Singleton Campus, housing a dedicated Student Information and Experience team that provides a range of student support services, including placement guidance and careers advice. There are also many student social and study spaces, which can be used throughout the day and out of hours.

This building also houses Swansea Law Clinic, which gives our students the chance to work alongside practising lawyers to advise real clients and benefits the local community by offering free initial advice about legal problems.

The Digital Technium is also home to a Legal Innovation Lab and Cyber Threats Research Centre, as well as a live Media Hub that is currently within the planning and development phase, demonstrating the faculty’s commitment to augment teaching through research. Directly opposite the Digital Technium is the Faraday Building (and Talbot building directly behind).

Faraday and Talbot Building

The Faraday Building houses large teaching rooms and lecture theatres, research laboratories and computer labs. The building has recently been refurbished to improve facilities for students.

The Faraday Tower is home to the Students’ Union (SU), who have 6 elected Full-time Officers who are available daily, representing different sectors of the SU. The SU work across both Bay and Singleton campuses, have 4 shops, 3 bars and run over 280 events for students every year.

The Students’ Union are also responsible for over 100 sport clubs and societies, ranging from Amnesty International, Debating and subject-specific societies, to sports such as rugby, swimming, cheerleading and the ever-popular ‘ultimate frisbee’, to passion/hobby-based societies such as ‘Disney’ and Fashion. More information on our clubs and societies can be found here.
The Advice and Support Centre is also located in Faraday, run by the SU and a team of trained advisors to provide free, impartial, and confidential advice and representation. They can support you through a number of legal issues and personal matters, across money, welfare, academic, housing and mental health struggles.

Talbot is home to The GO GLOBAL TEAM. The Go Global Team within the International Development Office helps Swansea University students pursue a range of opportunities abroad. This includes a year or semester abroad, studying at one of our partner universities or completing a work placement or teaching assistantship. Opportunities available will depend on your subject area. The team also assists students who would like to gain volunteering, cultural or academic experience during the summer, with a variety of international summer programmes open to all degree schemes. Full details can be found here, along with information about the funding and support available.

As you leave the Faraday Building, the Taliesin Arts Centre and the Egypt Centre will be on your left.

Taliesin Arts Centre and Egypt Centre 

The Taliesin Arts Centre is an on-campus theatre with a 330 seated auditorium. It is used by both students and visitors on a weekly basis with a full programme of films, dance, live music and theatrical performances including live stream broad casts from venues such as the Royal Opera House and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Discounts are available for all Swansea University students who present a Student Card.

Taliesin Create opened in March 2018 as an inclusive and flexible study space for students, staff, and the wider community. Taliesin Create offers open study space for groups and individuals, and a green screen for filming and meeting points.

The Egypt Centre is a museum of international importance housing an exciting collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts housing over 5,000 artefacts, the largest collection in the UK outside of London. Continuing along the mall, you will pass the Library and Information Centre on your right and the Keir Hardie and James Callaghan Building on your left.

Library and Information Centre 

Open 24 hours a day, 362 days of the year. It is home to IT Support, Careers Advice, and specialist subject librarians. The library provides access to over 900,000 print items and a large collection of E-resources. There are also over 1,100 study spaces and around 400 PCs and free and unlimited use of email and the internet. There is also free Wi-Fi throughout all the campus and University accommodation.

The Customer Service Team based at the Information desk provides a one stop shop for all these services.

It is also home to The MyUni Hub, open Monday-Friday from 0830 – 1730 and have highly trained and dedicated staff on hand to deal with any questions or worries. It houses the main reception for Student Support Services, International Development Office, Cash Office, Money Advice and Support Office and Disability Office.

Keir Hardie and James Callaghan Buildings

Home to numerous subjects within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keir Hardie and James Callaghan house teaching facilities that enhance the student study experience, including computer labs, a TV Studio, a translation and interpreting suite, and a Virtual Reality Suite.

James Callaghan building is home to History, Classics, Egyptology, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and American Studies. In the ‘basement’ of James Callaghan Building, there is the freshly refurbished ‘Change Please’ Callaghan’s Coffee Shop serving a range of hot and cold drinks and food. This building also houses a newly created student experience space situated adjacent to the coffee shop.

Kier Hardie building is home to Education and Early Childhood Studies, Economics, Welsh, Criminology, Modern Languages, English and Creative Writing, Applied Linguistics and Modern Languages. This building also benefits from a newly developed creative suite, for PGR students and staff to conduct collaborative activity within their own communities and external stakeholders/partners.

Students undergo field trips nationally and abroad and can collaborate with the Egypt Centre and Welsh Assembly through modules and are supported to gain work experience in a wide range of industries, from the police force through to publishers.

Continue to walk past the James Callaghan Building and Singleton Abbey is directly ahead.

Singleton Abbey

Singleton Abbey houses a large range of the University’s administrative sections. The building was once the home of the Vivian Family who, in the 19th Century, owned the main copper manufacturing plants in the area. The building is mainly 19th Century mock-gothic, but parts of its date from earlier centuries. If you follow the path to the right, you will pass the ornamental gardens and reach the front of the building, which offers wonderful views over Swansea Bay.

The Abbey Meadow is the site of the annual Students’ Union Summer Ball, which turns the meadow into a small festival site for the day with three stages, a funfair and a range of bars and food outlets. Previous acts have included Pixie Lott, Florence and the Machine and Jonas Blue. Continuing through the car park at the front of Singleton Abbey and turning left will lead you to one of the entrances to Singleton Park – the largest urban park in Swansea.

If you wish to head back to where you began your tour at Fulton House, simply turn left instead of entering the park and walk back down the mall until you come to the roundabout.

The Great Hall

The iconic Great Hall is the legacy building provided by BP to Swansea University, it has 9 teaching spaces including 300-seater tiered lecture theatres and 20-seater seminar rooms.

The first floor contains the Sir Stanley Clark Auditorium, which is open to the public and can host up to 700 people for conferences, music concerts, graduations, public lectures and other large events.

Walk to toward the front of Campus to locate the Computational Foundry, located opposite the Bus Stop.

Computational Foundry

Opened in 2018, the Computational Foundry is a £32.5m World Class Centre for Computational Research and home to Computer Science and Mathematics. The core research areas in these subjects are Cyber security, health technologies and the pervasiveness of digital in everyday life. Research facilities which include a Vision and Biometric Lab, Maker Lab, Theory Lab, Cyber Security/Networking Lab, User Lab and Visualisation Suite.

Behind the Computational Foundry is Engineering North, Active Classroom and Active Office. Walk along the path between Computational Foundry and Engineering Central and follow down. On the left-hand side of the path situates Engineering North Impact and the Active Classroom and Office buildings as well as ISM and ESRI.

Engineering North IMPACT

IMPACT is the research institute for Innovative Materials, Processing and Numerical Technologies. It is a multidisciplinary collaborative centre for Industry and Academia. It is also home to 3 laboratories which focus on Biomedical, Mechanical, Aerospace and Chemical Engineering. 

Active Classroom and Active Office

The Active Classroom is SPECIFIC's latest full-scale building demonstration project, containing a laboratory and classroom and will be used for teaching students. The Classroom generates its own energy with innovative technology.

The Active Office is the first positive energy office capable of generating more energy than it uses with spaces for 40 members of staff.

The Institute of Structural Materials (ISM)

Home to the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre where research into gas turbine aircraft engines is conducted. It is used for a mix of academic and commercial purposes.

The Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI)

Concentrates the College of Engineering’s strength in the energy sector as a collaborative research centre focusing on the safety issues surrounding the development and expansion of existing energy processes.

Research focuses on sustainable fuels e.g., chemical processing, marine and tidal energy.

The Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials is located next to the ESRI.

CISM – Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials

The Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM) is a brand-new building within the engineering quarter, opening in October 2022. This location allows for collaboration and shared facilities with the existing surrounding engineering buildings.

The three-story building covers 4320sqm of clean room, research and office facilities. The building uses sustainable, energy efficient building techniques and renewable energy technology including solar PV and heat recovery. Walk back on yourself toward the green and cross the road to reach the clock tower on the retail street.

Tower Information Centre 

The Tower Information Centre is the main reception for Student Support Services, International Development Office, Cash Office, Money Advice and Support Office and Disability Office.

This facility is called the My Uni Hub and is open Monday - Friday from 08:30 – 17:30 and has highly trained and dedicated staff on hand to deal with any questions or worries. St. Modwen Student Living is also housed within the Tower Information Centre and maintains the day-to-day operation requirements of the Swansea University Bay Campus accommodation. It provides and delivers administration, reception operation, caretaking, domestic cleaning, security, postal mail, grounds maintenance, waste and recycling management.

Walk into residence area via path between Tesco’s and the Tower to view the accommodation buildings available for student living on Bay Campus.

Student Residences

The Bay Campus is home to 2000 Students. Each residence is named after Kings, Queens, and Castles of Wales.

The accommodation at the Bay Campus is all brand new, ensuite accommodation with ¾ sized beds. The accommodation was designed by the Prince’s Trust Foundation and has an American college style feel. There is contents insurance with Endsleigh and Wi-Fi provided in all flats.

There are designated quiet, mature, alcohol free and nut allergy areas. There is also an on-site launderette, bank and convenience shop. The University provides Campus security and Welfare Wardens 24 hours a day all year round.

Bear left through to the next quad to view Sport Swansea and the UNIGym.

Sports Facilities 

Sport Swansea runs the sports clubs that are at the heart of university life. This building houses a Sports Hall that can accommodate basketball, badminton, netball, volleyball, fencing and archery and we also have a second UniGym located over two rooms, with a range of cardiovascular equipment as well as free weights and resistance machines. Sport Swansea is responsible for over 50 sports clubs ranging from Boxing and Sailing to Ultimate Frisbee.

Walk out to the retail street on the main road between the student residences and the Great Hall, catering to view the catering outlets and hospitality.

Shops/Retail Street

Swansea Social Hideaway is the Bay Campus Food Court which offers a contemporary, large flexible space providing a variety of culinary styles and choices.

Tafarn Tawe is a lively Cafe-Bar, serving food and drinks, alongside themed nights and live sports on the big screen. Conveniently located next to Tafarn Tawe is a Tesco Express and a Subway.

If you cross the road from the retail street, you will see the new Y Twyni Building.

Y Twyni

Y Twyni, the newest building on the Bay Campus is home to a range on meeting and event spaces. The double story building features large open plan teaching spaces on the ground floor, with smaller teaching classrooms and computer labs on the first floor. Perfect for smaller conferences, events and exhibitions or the space can be used as additional breakout sessions for larger events taking place on the Bay Campus.

The Student Union is also located in Y Twyni. The Students’ Union have 6 elected Full-time Officers who are available daily, representing different sectors of the SU. The SU work across both Bay and Singleton campuses, have 4 shops, 3 bars and run over 280 events for students every year.

The Students’ Union are also responsible for over 100 sport clubs and societies, ranging from Amnesty International, Debating and subject-specific societies, to sports such as rugby, swimming, cheerleading and the ever-popular ‘ultimate frisbee’, to passion/hobby-based societies such as ‘Disney’ and Fashion. More information on our clubs and societies can be found here. Walk behind the Y Twyni building towards The College.

The College

The College, Swansea University is Swansea’s dedicated international pathways provider. Through a combination of the development of general academic and subject specific knowledge and skills our Foundation, International Year One and Pre-Masters courses offer a unique approach to education which transforms international students into Swansea University graduates and lifelong learners.

The College, Swansea University has a personalised and supportive educational philosophy that encourages students to reach their maximum academic potential and assists them in making a successful transition to university study, post university work and indeed life in the UK. Our on-campus and beachfront academic building features study and social spaces as well as a Costa Coffee retail outlet at the rear and is open to all students at Swansea University. Follow the path around to the outside of School of Management.

School of Management

Home to Business Management, Accounting and Finance, Marketing and Tourism. The reception houses a dedicated Student Information and Experience team that serves the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, acting as the central point for students that are located at the Bay campus for studies or accommodation, and enabling access to a range of student support services including placement guidance and careers advice.

The building also hosts numerous facilities that enhance the student learning experience, including a Finance Lab equipped with the latest software and hardware to compliment theory learned in the classroom, developing a wide range of key transferable skills, including data analytics, problem-solving and digital literacy.

The purpose-built space was created and furnished to allow for teaching, group work and individual study.

Walk down the path between School of Management and The Great Hall. On your left is the Outdoor Sports Facilities, also known as the multi-use games areas (MUGAs).

Multi-Use Game Areas 

These are ideal for recreational football, rugby, and other ball sports. There are also opportunities to play beach volleyball, beach soccer, and ultimate frisbee. You can use these outdoor areas, whether you’re a student, staff, or member of the local community.

Continue walking toward the beachfront at the back of Bay Campus.

The Beach

Swansea University is officially the closest University to the beach in the world, with its own stretch of beach next to the campus for Students to enjoy. Turn back toward the front of the campus and walk toward the right-hand side of the campus.

On the right is the Bay Campus Library.

Bay Library

Open 24 hours a day, 362 days of the year. It is home to IT Support, Careers Advice, and specialist subject librarians.

The Customer Service Team based at the Information desk provides a one stop shop for all of these services. The desk is staffed from 8am-Midnight Monday-Friday and 10am-Midnight Sat/Sun during term-time. They help with connection to Wi-Fi, device support and finding Library resources. There is a mixture of approximately 500 group and individual study spaces, zoned silent-study areas and computer desks.

Engineering Central

Engineering Central is the main administration and academic hub of the Engineering Quarter and includes reception, teaching rooms, laboratories, and workshops.

Soon to be home to not 1 but 2 state of the art Merlin Flight Simulators which can provide highly sophisticated 3D visualisation and map real world terrain and a £1.2 million wind tunnel as well as a Pilot Plant which is industry standard for Chemical Engineering students to work in.

BASE study space and the Maths Café allow students to receive help with CAD, Mathematics and Writing skills in groups or individually.

Located in the Courtyard of the Engineering Central building is Coffeeoppolis, a great place for students to sit and relax with a ‘Change Please’ latte.