World-class facilities

You'll benefit from award-wining facilities at ARU, the result of £95m of investment over five years.

Thanks to this investment we have:

  • started training a new generation of doctors in Essex's first School of Medicine. The building houses specialist simulation rooms, mock hospital wards and the ARU Anatomy Centre
  • opened a dedicated Science Centre in Cambridge, complete with a 300-seat lecture theatre adapted for science teaching, and a raft of specialist labs
  • established Law Clinics in Cambridge and Chelmsford, which offer free legal advice and give our students the opportunity to work on real-life cases with qualified solicitors.

We're also opening a brand-new university in Peterborough. ARU Peterborough will open its doors in September 2022, offering a range of courses that have been developed with input from regional businesses. Watch a fly-through video of the new campus and some of the facilities. 

Three students working on Macs

What's next?

We're planning to invest £200m over the next ten years.

We'll be integrating the best digital learning options into all our courses. While this will enhance our students' learning experiences, it won't replace traditional face-to-face teaching. Our commitment to that – and to contact time with your lecturers – is unwavering.

We'll be looking outside of the classroom too, investing in a range of activities to make your university experience the best it can be, and boost your employability.

And we're delighted to be the official higher education partner of ARU Peterborough, a new £30m employment-focused university due to open in 2022. Building work is now underway.

Explore our facilities

Our facilities range from medical science SuperLabs, a financial trading room and fully-equipped TV studios, to engineering labs, computer gaming suites, mock law courts and paramedic skills labs. Cambridge School of Art is a work of art in itself: a red-brick Victorian building chock-full of art, design, photography and printmaking studios.

Our library and IT facilities are also second to none: you can access our vast online collection 24/7, and you'll have Office 365, Microsoft Teams and Adobe Photoshop CS6 as standard. Students on creative courses have use of Adobe Creative Cloud software.

Everyone can use and enjoy shared spaces like the renowned Ruskin Gallery, which stages free exhibitions throughout the year; our campus gyms in Cambridge and Chelmsford; and the University Eye Clinic, where our optometry students learn under the guidance of qualified professionals. (Drop in for a free eye test.)

Take a look around:

  • Eye-tracking equipment in Psychology Lab
  • Two professionals practicing surgery in the Mock Operating Theatre of Anglia Ruskin University
  • Anglia Ruskin University students in Paramedic Science skills lab
  • Four student nurses administering to a medical mannequin
  • Cambridge School of Art studios
  • Printmaking studio in Cambridge School of Art
  • Equipment in the University Eye Clinic
  • Mechanical engineering lab
  • group of students practicing at the Level-2 Superlab of Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford
  • TV studio in Cambridge School of Art
  • Photography darkroom in Cambridge School of Art
  • Dusting for fingerprints
  • two healthcare professionals supervising activities in the Simulation Suite Control Room of Anglia Ruskin Univeristy
  • Young professoinal looking throw a microscope when doing cancer research at the Molecular Lab of Anglia Ruskin Univeristy