All international students arriving at the Birmingham International Airport or Birmingham New Street Railway Station will be collected by staff or other students and taken to their accommodation. Groups of international students arriving at other international airports may also be met. Please let us know of your arrival times. The office also helps students to become accustomed to the City and provides a range of activities and social events. The University has ten libraries sited at different University locations.
All libraries have a wide range of stock directly supporting the teaching at each site.
Material is accessible via a computerised catalogue covering all collections in the University. The main Kenrick Library at Perry Barr has a stock exceeding 300,000 volumes and subscribes to approximately 1,200 journals. It also houses an open access computing facility and the main University bookshop. The Business School has a well established Learning and IT Support Centre. It offers students access to a wide range of learning materials including company reports, past dissertations, market research reports and on-line research facilities, e.g. Datastream.