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CAMDEN CAMPUS

LONDON

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

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