The University's campus provides opportunities for an interesting, full and varied life. About half the students live in halls of residence or student flats on campus. The halls, both single sex and mixed sex, have a friendly community life with good resources for study and sport. The student flats enable a measure of independent living with all the campus facilities nearby. These include a large sports centre, a swimming pool, many playing fields, an arts centre, two theatres, four libraries, a health centre, and a selection of shops, banks etc.
Most students spend at least a year living in one of the halls of residence on campus.
However a large number of students in their second and third year choose to live in town. Nottingham is an ideal base for students of social studies, with its cultural diversity, its lively political life, and the many problems and debates generated as its varied economy adapts to industrial change. The city is large enough to illustrate all the social issues of the contemporary UK, but compact and friendly enough for students quickly to feel familiar with it.