About the college
A college built around a library, where every programme practises from the first year
Campanile opened in 1962 with one building, the library under the bell tower, and 140 students. It has six schools and 4,800 students now, and the rule has not changed: no programme without a place to practise it.
The story
Sixty years in four buildings, then ten
The founders were a nurse, an engineer and a schoolteacher who could not find a college in the county that let students near a patient, a machine or a classroom before the third year. They bought the old grain exchange, kept the tower, and put the library in it.
The School of Education came with a nursery attached in 1971 and a primary school in 1988. The clinic opened to the public in 1995. The business school's incubator, the cyber range and the simulation wards are from the last ten years. The tower still rings the hour, by hand, at eight and at six.
How we teach
Four rules every school keeps
Written in 1962, kept since. They are the reason the campus has a clinic, a lab school, a print shop and a company incubator.
Practice from the first year
A simulation ward, a studio, a classroom with real children or a company with real customers, from the first semester, not the last.
Faculty who still do the work
Every instructor keeps a day in the field: on a ward, in a practice, in a company, in a school.
Small groups where it matters
Lectures can be large; labs, studios and clinics are never more than twelve students to an instructor.
The money in the open
Tuition, scholarships and discounts published on the website and simulated before any form, so no one applies without knowing the number.
In numbers
The college today
| Students | 4,800, of whom 1,100 study online |
|---|---|
| Programmes | 22 across six schools |
| Faculty | 310, every one with a day a week in the field |
| Lab school | 180 children, nursery to year six |
| Clinic | Open to the public five days a week |
| Graduates since 1962 | 38,000 |
Leadership
The deans of the six schools
Each school is run by a dean who teaches. The president of the college, Dr Ruth Alcott, taught in the School of Education for twenty years before the board asked her to run the place.
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