Make it Plymouth, Britain's best 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
Four students enjoy a winter walk on a nearby beach.
Living your best student life in a city by the sea
 
 

Discover postgraduate opportunities to take your learning and career further

Postgraduate study
Postgraduate students in a lecture theatre.
 

In Plymouth we are tackling global challenges

Offshore wind farm
Powering new thinking around sustainable wind, tidal and wave 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

Degree Apprenticeships are a partnership between the employer, the apprentice, and the University of Plymouth as the training provider.
National Apprenticeship Week

Celebrating apprenticeships #NAW2025

10 February 2025 - 16 February 2025
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 7 July 2025 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 is Britain's best city to live and work according to PwC Good Growth for Cities Report 2024.