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By Car Swansea University Self Guided Tour For Sat-Nav users the University’s postcode is SA2 8PP. Please note that this will direct you to the centre of campus where there is no car parking. Please follow the parking directions below. From the East Exit the M4 at Junction 42 (signposted Swansea A483) where the slip road will bring you onto Fabian Way. Follow the dual carriageway, keeping the Amazon warehouse on your right. Continue straight across the next four sets of traffic lights (1 st : Swansea Business Park on right; 2 nd : McDonalds to the left and Park and Ride car park to the right – 3.8 miles; 3 rd : Just after the Village hotel on the left; 4 th : Just after the Cape Horner pub on the right, onto the bridge over the River Tawe (A4067)- 4.6 miles). Pass Sainsbury (4.8 miles, on the left) and Swansea Museum (5 miles, again on the left). Continuing straight ahead, pass the large Tesco store on your right (5.4 miles), and the City and County of Swansea offices on your left (5.5 miles). Continue along the coast road towards Mumbles, passing a stretch of bed & breakfast hotels and the Bay View public house on your right. After the next set of traffic lights make sure you are in the outside lane of the dual carriageway as you pass St Helen’s Rugby Ground (6.3 miles). Pass the Rugby visitors car park sign on your left - this shows where University visitors need to park. At the next set of traffic lights turn right into Brynmill Lane. Continue a short distance to the mini roundabout and turn a full 360 degrees at the mini roundabout to return to Oystermouth Road where you now turn left. Immediately on your left is the entrance to the Recreation Ground car park (by the bus stop). From the West If approaching from the West, go straight ahead at the traffic lights outside the University, keep to left-hand lane, straight through next set of traffic lights at Brynmill Lane and the Recreation Ground car park is situated on the left. Parking: WE REGRET THAT ONLY DISABLED VISITORS ARE ALLOWED TO PARK ON THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. All vehicles must park in the Recreation Ground Car Park on Mumbles Road where the parking fee is approximately £2.00 for the day. The University is a short walk west along Mumbles Road. Arriving by National Express Coach/Local Bus Getting to Swansea University Arriving by train (Swansea High Street Station) The number 4 Metro Bus links the station to the university. A bus stop is located directly outside the station entrance. A return ticket to the university costs approximately £4. There is also a taxi rank outside the station. A taxi to the university will cost approximately £7. Coaches arrive at the Quadrant Bus Station. The number 4 Metro Bus stop is located across the road from the Quadrant station and this will bring you onto campus. Buses return from the University to the City Centre at regular intervals. The cost is approximately £4 return. Many other local bus services stop either on or near to the campus. For full details please visit http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/south_west_wales/ www.swansea.ac.uk 4
Fulton House Wallace Building Institute of Life Science Grove Building Haldane Building Swansea University Self Guided Tour Start at Fulton House (17) Fulton House, a Grade II listed building, is home to many of the University’s student facilities and includes a corner shop, cash-point machines, the university run letting agency SAS Lettings and a travel shop. On the 1 st floor you will find the Venue Refectory and ‘Fusion Café’, and on the 2 nd floor the Students Union bar & coffee shop, JC’s. Fulton House is also home to “Discovery” – Swansea’s Student Community Action, a student-led charity which facilitates volunteering opportunities within the community. Currently they have over 300 student volunteers who get involved in a range of projects within the community. Heading right, walk to the Wallace Building (9) The Wallace Building is home to two of the largest departments on campus, Biological Sciences on the ground floor and Geography on the first floor. Both of these departments have been rated “Excellent” for teaching. Biological Sciences has its own Botanic Gardens, zoology museum and marine aquarium, as well as its own research vessel, 12m long catamaran the ‘Noctiluca’. Institute of Life Science (33) A self-guided tour of the campus (Numbers in brackets refer to the campus map) The new building that you can see is the University’s £50 million Institute of Life Science, a collaboration between IBM and the University. It houses one of Europe’s largest IBM supercomputers, named “Blue C” and has established Swansea as a world-class centre for life science research. In recent months Boots has moved its entire UK R&D operation to this building and Starbucks have opened a coffee shop on the first floor. Turning around walk between the Grove Building (12) and the Glyndwr Building (11.1), passing the Vivian Tower (11.2) on the left-hand side The buildings on the left are home to many departments, including Health Science, Childhood Studies, Psychology, Physics and Applied Social Sciences. Both Physics and Psychology have been rated “Excellent” for the quality of their teaching, and Health Science, which offers a range of courses for school leavers and health professionals, was recently rated within the top 7 Universities for Nursing and Midwifery by The Guardian. On the right-hand side the Grove Building is home to Swansea’s School of Medicine, which runs a four-year Graduate-entry Medicine scheme for graduates, as well as housing facilities for medical research. Pass the Haldane Building (16) and Richard Price Building (14) and go to the Campus Halls of Residence (19.1 - 26). The Haldane Building is home to the School of Business and Economics, which offers over 40 degree schemes, many of which offer students the opportunity to spend a year in North America, Australia, Asia or Europe. Based in the Richard Price Building, the Law Department has its own Law Library and Moot court, and an active Student Law Society. Approximately 1300 places are available in the Singleton residences on campus. 400 of these are in the original halls (Preseli and Kilvey – 19.1 & 20 on the campus map) which offer part-catered accommodation. This takes the form of a diner’s card which is credited with diners points at the start of each term for use in 10 catering outlets on campus. The card also entitles the bearer to a further 10% off regular prices at these www.swansea.ac.uk 5
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