Our Campuses
Oxford Brookes University operates on three campuses in Oxford: Headington, Harcourt Hill and Wheatley, with a smaller campus in Swindon, focused on nursing education and operating department practice.
Headington Campus comprises three sites. The Headington Hill site is set in mature parkland and home to Headington Hill Hall, a 19th century former manor house. A 15-minute walk away, the Marston Road site is a hub for healthcare teaching on the campus.
The flagship £132m John Henry Brookes Building opened on the Gipsy Lane site in 2014. Winning a number of awards, it has transformed the experience of students and the wider University community. It houses the main central services at Headington, including the library, social study space, student support services, catering facilities and Brookes Union.
In 2017 Oxford Brookes Business School moved into transformed spaces in Clerici. There has also been a major refurbishment of new teaching spaces, including industry standard teaching and research laboratories in Sinclair for science students. Harcourt Hill Campus is home to a range of humanities and sports teaching. The original Westminster College, founded in 1851, has had a home at Harcourt Hill since the 1950s and merged with Oxford Brookes University in 2000. The Westminster Hall student residence also sits on the campus, alongside sports facilities, including a swimming pool.
Wheatley Campus became part of the then Oxford Polytechnic in 1975. Over recent years, the campus has seen investment in engineering spaces and in 2017 saw improvement to key student and staff areas, including the creation of a gym on site. Swindon Campus opened the newly refurbished Joel Joffe Building, which houses teaching and clinical skills labs in August 2016, almost two decades after the University first had a presence in the town.
Over the next few years all Wheatley-based courses will move to Headington Campus, where an innovative purpose built teaching space will house engineering, computing, art and design, architecture and construction.
Our Oxford
Oxford is a beautiful city with a rich cultural history. The city is famous for education and architecture, museums and green spaces. Oxford is not only one of the UK's fastest growing cities, it is a global success story, with a reputation for being one of the world's leading technology clusters. Key sectors of industry are health, education, research, technology, tourism, car manufacturing and publishing.
The city is home to a diverse industrial base with around 4,700 businesses providing 135,000 jobs.
Oxford Brookes is proud of its home in Oxford and proud to make a significant economic, social and cultural contribution to the city; from contributing £1m per day to the UK economy, through our links with the high-skill regional economy to the expertise of our nurses and teachers in local hospitals and schools.
We partner up to raise aspirations in schools, widen access to those under-represented in higher education, and to provide high-level consultancy to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Oxford is the tourism gateway to the rest of Oxfordshire, generating £780m of income annually for local Oxford businesses. In terms of overseas visitors to the UK, Oxford is the seventh most visited city for staying visits.
Oxford is only an hour from London by train and many placements and field trips make the most of this easy access. The University is well served by a regular coach service to central London and to Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
More information about the city of Oxford and the surrounding area is available at www.experienceoxfordshire.org
