In most cases books are interchangeable between campuses and a computer-based catalogue provides students with a full record of all books. Resources include photographic studios, television editing suites, sound recording and mixing facilities, language laboratories, desktop publishing equipment, graphic design centers, and satellite technology. There is a comprehensive network of computing and data communications services and most students make use at some time of one of the 30 departmental microcomputer labs. All students get their own private Email address on registration. The university has developed one of the finest internal University computer networks in the United Kingdom.
Students can address networked printers, plotters, laser printers and micro subnets from any campus.
The Jordanstown, Magee and Coleraine campuses have excellent sporting facilities. An Olympic-sized swimming pool, tennis courts, fitness suite, and games fields are available at Jordanstown, where sports education is a speciality. On the Coleraine campus the sports center has been renovated, and in addition to the fitness suite and squash courts, tennis courts, and playing fields, there is now a sauna and sunroom. At Magee a new sports centre offers fitness and training facilities, but as in Belfast, top quality public facilities are also available nearby at very little charge. The University holds major concerts, plays, celebrity lectures, opera, dance, films and art exhibitions.