This is a big, bustling campus, three miles north of the city centre. It’s simple to get to – there’s on-site parking, and you’re minutes from a train station and major bus routes. It’s where many of our courses are based, including those taught by Birmingham City Business School and the Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences, as well as English and some Media courses.
Facilities
Teaching students get the feel of a real school in our replica classrooms, complete with school gym and changing rooms. During mooting competitions, Law students hone their advocacy skills in one of our mock courtrooms in front of a judge, usually a qualified solicitor or barrister.
It’s also where you’ll find lots of facilities – you can study at the vast Kenrick Library, pick up careers advice from our Student Services team, work out at the new £8.5 million Doug Ellis Sports Centre, head to the Students’ Union or just grab a bite to eat from one of our cafés.
Latest Developments
The campus has benefited from a £2.5 million investment in a range of projects to improve its social amenities and social learning spaces. The most significant is the creation of the new Kenrick café, fully integrated within the Library and the 24-hour Open Access IT Suite. Together with the refurbishment of the Baker and Edge cafés, City North now has a superb and varied food and refreshment offering in excellent surroundings.
The Students’ Union has also remodelled its Bar 42 at a cost of £250,000, while a major investment in the Business School provided a new reception in Galton Building and the upgrade of teaching and social spaces on the upper floors. To complete the picture, the Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences received a revamp of the entrances and corridors to the Dawson and Attwood buildings with new lighting, flooring and redecoration.
Campus Accessibility
All teaching and learning resource areas, catering, library, information technology and Students’ Union facilities on this campus are physically accessible via level or ramped access and lifts. There are also numerous accessible toilet facilities. The only exception is the ‘dark room'; however, we can set up alternative facilities if you need to use an accessible dark room. All passenger lifts have speech output and there is tactile paving to assist blind and visually impaired people through the campus. External steps are marked with white edging.
An accessible shopping centre called One Stop is close by and has level access to most shops and lift access to other floors. Unfortunately Perry Barr train station, which is close to the campus, is not wheelchair accessible.