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CAMDEN CAMPUS

LONDON
Our historic Camden Campus is where Veterinary Medicine students spend their first two years
and the Accelerated BVetMed students spend their first year. Biological Sciences students study at
Camden throughout their courses except Animal Biology, Behaviour, Welfare and Ethics students
who spend their final year at Hawkshead.

Camden is one of the most creative and stimulating areas of Student facilities
the city. Famous for its markets, music venues like the iconic At the heart of the Campus is the Lightwell, a bright and open
Roundhouse and café culture Camden is a great place to café where you can have coffee next to a full size elephant
experience student life. It is home to the famous Camden Market skeleton! Above the Lightwell is the Pod. This social learning
and the picturesque Camden Lock and Canal and is close to ZSL space hangs above the café and provides students with a
London Zoo and Regents Park. quiet, comfortable area to work in, either on your own or with
classmates. On campus is a student gym, split across two
Camden Campus rooms, and is free to use for all students.
Our Camden Campus was first constructed in the 1930s on our Anatomy Museum
founding site from 1791. Since then, veterinary learning and
teaching developments have advanced enormously and, in A treasure trove of veterinary history and animal anatomy can
recognition of this, over the past few years the RVC has invested be found on campus in our fascinating museum.
approximately £14 Million in modernising its Camden estate. First Opinion Animal Hospital
This recent renovation of the Hobday Building marked the most
extensive redevelopment the campus has seen in over 80 years. The Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital offers a range of
services for pets, including an exotics service.
Students can now enjoy new teaching rooms, extra social learning Laboratories
spaces, an extended dining facility, larger common rooms and a Modern high standard molecular biology laboratories
much improved social setting. supported by cell culture, as well as state of the art cell and
tissue imaging facilities.
Academic facilities
On campus, there are teaching and research laboratories, a learning London Bioscience and Innovation Centre (LBIC)
resource centre, and a dissection room. There are also large lecture The home of over forty biotechnology and life sciences
theatres, group-learning rooms, quiet study rooms and a library. companies, from small start-ups to established, global players.
The entrance to our Camden Campus The Lightwell at the Camden Campus

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