Make it Plymouth, a top city to live and work*

Students using equipment in the STEAM lab
Immersive learning, turning theory into practice
Two female students relaxing in their halls of residence.
Making your home away from home
Wild swimmers at Firestone Bay
Living your best student life in a city by the sea
 
 
 

Advance your career with postgraduate study — including our UK top 20-ranked research degrees* 

We offer January and September starts on a range of courses.
Postgraduate study
Postgraduate students in a lecture theatre.
 
 
 
 
 

In Plymouth we are tackling global challenges

Cetus - Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) USV Cetus is an L3 Harris ‘C-Worker 4’, designed to accommodate a wide range of sensors, equipment and systems, and can operated remotely or as a semi-autonomous platform from a support vessel or land station.
Driving innovation in advanced marine technologies
Close up of young crops growing in a field
Creating fertile soils from waste materials to support sustainable farming
Conceptual impression of bacteria
Developing new antibiotics from sea sponges to fight superbugs
 
 
 
 

Explore our teaching, research and support facilities

At the University of Plymouth, we are significantly investing in our campus and facilities to ensure a first-class learning, research and working environment
Take a look
Students in the STEAM laboratory, Babbage
 
 
 

What's on

Students sat at a table on campus.
Undergraduate on-campus open day

Open days are the best way to get a feel for studying an undergraduate degree at the University of Plymouth

25 April 2026
Foundation year degrees 
Degree apprenticeships 
Undergraduate degrees
Postgraduate degrees 
* We guarantee a place in halls (either University-managed or with an accredited private provider) to all new undergraduate students who make Plymouth their firm first choice, apply by the guarantee deadline and are eligible under our terms and conditions.
* Excludes those travelling, retired or caring for someone, out of all UK domiciled, full-time first-degree graduates. Contains HESA Data: Copyright JISC 2022. JISC cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third parties from its data.
** Plymouth, a top city to live and work according to PwC Good Growth for Cities Report 2025.