KeeleLiving at Your home from home 2 | Living at Keele Welcome to Keele | 3 Keele welcomes you to our beautiful campus that gives you 600 acres of space to study, relax, thrive and explore and Welcome make your home from home. Everything is just a short walk away Top 10 from the central campus, from study areas IN ENGLAND FOR OVERALL STUDENT to accommodation, to cafés and open SATISFACTION spaces, you’re never far away from what to Keele NSS 2021 (BROAD-BASED you need at Keele. PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES) 4 | Living at Keele Accommodation at Keele | 5 Accommodation at Keele There’s a variety of accommodation at Keele, with the aim of suiting a range of student lifestyle needs and budgets. Open days and offer Our guarantee Students with a holder days We prioritise all new September disability or health We hold campus open days and entry full-time students and condition international students for offer holder days to give you the We offer a guarantee of on campus accommodation. We opportunity to tour the campus, campus accommodation to offer guaranteed accommodation including the halls of residence. all students with long term on campus for September entry Tours are guided by our Student medical conditions or disabilities undergraduate applicants who Ambassadors, to enable you who choose Keele as their make Keele their firm choice, and to ask any questions you may first choice and apply by the who apply for accommodation have. This will also give you the deadline. We want you to reach by the deadline date. opportunity to view bedrooms, your potential and will do all communal spaces and facilities. Check details at: we can to support you, to ensure keele.ac.uk/discover keele.ac.uk/accommodation that you do so. Terms apply. If appropriate, Disability Virtual and Support will invite you to attend customised tours Care leavers and a familiarisation visit to discuss estranged students with you the suitability of Don’t worry if you’re unable available accommodation and to visit us on our open or offer Care leavers and estranged any other access requirements for holder days, you can view our students are prioritised for those with mobility and/or severe campus via our online virtual on campus accommodation physical disabilities, sensory tour, which gives you access to as long as applications for disabilities or medical conditions a range of information, including accommodation are submitted which impact your daily lifestyle. videos and 360° imagery of by the deadline. We can also All applicants with a health accommodation and facilities. offer accommodation for longer concern should contact Disability We also endeavour to provide letting periods for students Services, who can provide customised tours, to those who wishing to stay in the same additional support. can’t make a main event. This will room for the whole year. We will enable you to view the halls of provide you with a package of keele.ac.uk/disability residence, subject to availability. support that will help you before and throughout your time at You can book this with the Keele University. Student Accommodation Office by emailing: [email protected] 6 | Living at Keele Halls of Residence | 7 Halls of Residence Our campus means whichever halls of residence you choose, you are just a short walk from central campus, the library, study areas, Students’ Union, sports centre, cafés and much more. Barnes Hall Lindsay Hall Holly Cross and Located between David Located on the south side of The Oaks Weatherall (Medical School) campus, and a short stroll from Holly Cross and The Oaks sits and the Sports Centre, as well central campus and the science on the south side of campus, as being a short walk from our teaching facilities. Lindsay overlooking the surrounding Keele Business School and Smart Hall has its own launderette and countryside and close to the Innovation Hub, Barnes Hall has it provides a selection of rooms science teaching facilities. 2 launderettes and over 1,000 including Traditional, Classic, It has its own common room student bedrooms. It offers a Classic Plus and en-suite rooms. and launderette as well range of Classic rooms, shared as En-suite Plus bedrooms flats and en-suites. with shared kitchens. Take a look at our virtual Horwood Hall tours and halls videos: Close to the centre of campus, keele.ac.uk/a-tours Students’ Union, and Health Centre, Horwood is also next to Keele Hall, its lakes and woodland. It has its own View our launderette and offers Classic Plus rooms and shared flats and houses. virtual tours Free Wi-Fi 8 | Living at Keele Applying for a room | 9 Room types Applying for a room If you’re joining us as a full-time student, there’s a range of The process room types for you to choose from. We have Traditional rooms without a washbasin, Classic and Classic Plus Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 bedrooms with a washbasin, 3 grades of En-suite bedrooms Once you’ve received Check your course Check out the different If you’ve received an an offer and accepted dates and choose a room types and select unconditional offer with your own bathroom, as well as shared flatsand houses a place to study at letting period that three from the online from Keele, you can Keele, you will be fits best with your application form. expect to receive your that accommodate 4-8 students. eligible to apply for course and suits your We will do our best accommodation offer accommodation. You duration requirements to allocate you one of via email by the end Many of our rooms are set up for Classic Plus En-suite Plus should apply for your for campus these choices. of July. shared living which is a great way accommodation even accommodation. If you to meet new people and settle • Bedrooms with a washbasin • Bedrooms with a small If you’ve received if Keele is your need to stay for the a conditional offer in. Our bedrooms are larger than • Shared kitchen with tables double bed and insurance choice. summer, choose the 51 from Keele, you can average with students sharing or breakfast bars and shared en-suite bathroom week letting option, or expect to receive your kitchens and bathrooms. We bathroom facilities • Shared kitchen facilities How to apply: You will you will be expected have a dedicated domestic team receive an email from accommodation offer • Available in parts of Horwood between 8 students to move rooms for the who clean the communal areas the Accommodation via email in August, and Lindsay halls • Social areas next to the kitchen summer vacation. for you. You’ll soon feel at home, Team, which will include when you have making use of the space and • Available in Holly Cross a link to submitting an confirmation of a facilities in your bedroom. Shared flats and houses and The Oaks and Lindsay Hall application. Applications place on a course. • Bedrooms in flats or small will open February Traditional houses En-suite Superior onwards for courses starting in the following • Shared kitchen and bathroom • Bedrooms in flats with • Bedrooms without a washbasin September. facilities between 4-8 students a double bed and • Shared kitchen and bathroom en-suite bathroom facilities • Social areas in the kitchen • Large shared kitchen facilities • Available in Lindsay Hall • Available in Barnes Hall and Horwood Hall between 6-8 students • Dining areas and communal What length of contract Just a note Classic space in the kitchen En-suite should I choose? So we can offer you the • Bedrooms with a washbasin • Available in parts • Bedrooms in flats with 37 weeks - Aligns to our right room, please let us • Shared kitchen and bathroom of Barnes Hall an en-suite bathroom academic year know about any medical facilities conditions or health concerns, • Shared kitchen facilities 40 weeks - Ideal if you’re • Available in Barnes Hall Adapted rooms by registering with Disability between 6 students studying Veterinary Medicine and Lindsay Hall and Dyslexia Support via • Social areas in the kitchen We cater and offer a number of adapted rooms for students 44 weeks - Allows you to stay [email protected] • Available in Barnes Hall with specific needs. Available with us until you graduate in and notifying us on your in Holly Cross and The Oaks, the summer accommodation application form. We can then work and Barnes Hall. For further 51 weeks - Ideal if you’re a information, please contact with the University Disability Our rents Nursing and Midwifery student, Advisers to make sure you 24 hr Security Disability Services: or a postgraduate student include utility [email protected] have the right room to support and Support who will need to be available your needs. bills and contents throughout the academic year Services insurance 10 | Living at Keele Nursing and midwifery accommodation | 11 The accommodation Nursing and midwifery offer process and timeline accommodation In the first year, we aim to accommodateNursing and Date What happens? Midwifery students together due to course requirements. clusters February Applications for accommodation open for students starting a course in the Students are typically accommodated in or on following September. Full details will be emailed to you when you are eligible to apply. corridors within a block of mature or postgraduate students who require the same occupancy period. 1 May Onwards We send out accommodation offers to full time postgraduate students. 30 June This is the closing date to apply for accommodation for: The Keele University campus - UK students who have Keele as their firm choice is located approximately 3 miles from the Clinical Education Centre - UK students who have Keele as their insurance choice (University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust).