Discover English at Loughborough University

Attending one of our applicant visit days is the perfect opportunity to get a feel for life and study at Loughborough University - and find out what makes English special from the people who know best: our staff and students!

About the days

Our applicant visit days are exclusive events for offer holders and you will receive your personal invitation to attend by email. Different to a University Open Day, the visit day is focused on the Subject Area and gives you the chance to find out more about the course you have applied for, while getting a sense of what it's like to be a Loughborough student.

Visitor feedback

"I had an extremely lovely day and the lectures/seminars proved to be especially useful in my decision making process."

2019/2020 Visit Days

Our Visit Days give offer holders the opportunity to find out more about the course they have applied for and the University, including:

  • Taster lectures
  • Seminars showing how English is taught at Loughborough
  • Campus tours
  • Accommodation tours
  • Chance to speak with professional services such as careers and student support services

Itineraries for the Visit Days will be posted here two weeks before each event. You will also receive an email reminder including a link to the itinerary.

In the mean time, you might like to hear about the exciting things going on right now in English at Loughborough:

  • Dr Kerry Featherstone and Dr Barbara Cooke are running Creative Writing Workshops for students. These informal workshops are an opportunity to add to your current creative writing, or to try it out if you haven’t studied it before. Featuring writing prompts from the fascinating to the downright daft, as well as top-quality refreshments, each workshop is two hours of creativity and amusement. 
  • Nellie Cole has been announced as the new Poet-in Residence for the next academic year. Nellie will run guest workshops and open-door sessions that will give students the opportunity to discuss their own work and learn more about working as an author.
  • Prof Mike Wilson will be in conversation with Martin Edwards, Crime Fiction author, on Monday 17th February at 7.00pm in the Stanley Evernden Studio. Martin is President of the Detection Club , Chair of the Crime Writer’s Assn and Editor of the British Library’s Crime Classics series.
  • Crime Writing Book Club will be discussing ‘The Ghost Riders of Ordebec’ by Fred Vargas on Wednesday 26th February at 5pm in the Martin Hall Breakout space.
  • Dr Oli Tearle and other guest academics bring their knowledge and expertise to the ‘School of Poetry’ podcast. This podcast is dedicated to discussing and analysing the good – and the not so good – within the world of poetry. All episodes can be found here - http://school-of-poetry.buzzsprout.com/.
  • Dr Joan Fitzpatrick has written an article where she reveals how our ancestors may have exercised in the 16th century. The article can be found here - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/news-events/news/2019/exercise-16-century-joan-fitzpatrick/ 

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Visit Day Itineraries

Choose your visit day date below:

Testimonials

Here's what other students had to say about their visit day experiences:

“I had such a brilliant time, and it’s really inspired me to study at Loughborough.”

“Please pass on my thanks to everyone involved, especially the taster seminar. I was able to take what I learnt and feed it back into the class work I have done this week.”

As the Visit Day will involve tours of our School facilities and the University campus, we recommend you wear comfortable clothes and shoes. At our School of Social Sciences and Humanities visit days we will be providing a lunch, giving you the opportunity to sample the high quality food available to our students, as well as tea and coffee at the start and finish of the day. Should you require anything else there are various food and drink outlets on campus, including our Students' Union shop.

Hopefully you will find the information on this page sufficient to help you arrive at the right place on time! There will be signage around campus to direct you to the correct venue and staff and students will be happy to direct you if you get lost.

You can also view our campus map online.

Rail travellers - will arrive at Loughborough Central Station, approximately 3 miles from the campus.

Taxi fares will be charged on a metered basis (approx £6-£7).

From the station you can also catch the University/Town/Station Kinchbus service ("Sprint").  This service operates every 15 mins. The fare is £2.00.

For those attending our Visit Days in the James France building (see below) please alight at the Computer Studies stop and follow the signs for James France. For those attending our Visit Days at the West Park Teaching Hub, please alight at the Holywell Park stop. In both instances the venue is a short five minute walk from the stop.

Coach travellers - will arrive at Loughborough in The Rushes or Baxter Gate in the centre of town.

From The Rushes stop you can catch the Kinchbus Sprint service to the University. See above for the relevant bus stops on campus.

Car travellers - are advised to take one of the following routes

(if you are using a SatNav, the post code is LE11 3AJ):

M1: Junction 23 on to the A512 to Loughborough, approx 2 miles to 1st roundabout, turn right, at the next roundabout go straight-over into Holywell Park for car parking.

A6 from North and South: follow signs for Loughborough, then University and/or Nanpantan.

A60 from Nottingham, or A511 from Leicester or Burton: follow signs for Loughborough, then University and/or Nanpantan.

Please note: car parking is limited on campus.

In the first instance please report to the Gatehouse at HOLYWELL PARK, where you will be given instructions regarding parking.

On a particularly busy visit day, you may be directed to alternative parking. The Gatehouse at Holywell Park will give you further instructions if this is necessary.

For Saturday events, where parking is more widely available, please tell the marshals which venue you are going to and they can direct you to appropriate parking.

There will be a large team of student ambassadors working at the events. They will have a range of roles on the day including directions and parking, welcoming, tours, registration etc. If you need assistance on the day, School staff and members of the Events Team can be identified by their purple "Team Loughborough" t-shirts. The Student Ambassadors from English will be wearing pink polo t-shirts.