Why Choose Bradford? 10 Good Reasons

5. Facilities

Library

Bradford has over 1,000 PCs for students on campus as well as an extensive library with specialist collections. The J B Priestley Library, named after Bradford's illustrious writer, houses an almost unimaginable 530,000 volumes, over 1,100 printed periodical titles and over 7,000 electronic journals. There are also dedicated subject libraries at the School of Management (the Yvette Jacobson Library) and the School of Health Studies, and your department will have its own specialist academic/technical facilities to support your study.

IT

Bradford really excels when it comes to IT, with one of the highest ratios of PCs to students in the country and several innovative schemes that enable you to keep the information you want at your fingertips in all sorts of surprising places.

• Wireless network
• Laptop 'plug points'
• Laptop rental scheme
• PC clusters in most buildings
• FREE broadband style network in University-owned Halls

Recent investment totalling more than £17m has enhanced teaching and lecture room provision and accommodation throughout the campus.

Learner Development Unit (LDU)

The LDU provides all sorts of resources to support you in developing and enhancing your academic skills. We have information on anything and everything from writing essays, referencing and plagiarism to solving maths problems! In addition to paper-based resources we have a whole host of online learning materials available from our website www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment and in BlackBoard (the University's Virtual Learning Environment).

"The facilities at Bradford are excellent - the Library is open 24 hours a day [during term time] and I often find myself using the computers quite early in the morning. I never have any difficulty finding a PC to work on."

Lindsay MacRae - Social and Welfare Studies

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23 July 2007