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Financial support

Travel bursaries, free bus service, and lunch vouchers

To support with the cost of attending, we're offering a limited number of travel bursaries up to the value of £50 to eligible students. You can apply online up to a week after your visit. If you're planning to arrive into Gloucester by bus or train, you can book onto our free shuttle bus. The service will bring you directly to our campus.

You’ll also receive a £5 lunch voucher to use in our Graze restaurant, and a free Hartpury bobble hat as a memento of the day.

Event programmes

Agriculture

As a Hartpury Agriculture student for the day, you’ll visit our Agri-Tech Centre and head out onto our commercial farm. You could be evaluating feed types for our Hartpury herd, exploring crop planning methods and soil types, and using your collected data to make important decisions.

Applicant Day Agriculture

Animal

As a Hartpury Animal student for the day, you could be exploring the biodiversity of our beautiful campus, considering the impact of human-animal interactions on animals, or working in a laboratory to better understand anatomy and physiology of an animal.

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Biological Sciences

As a Hartpury Biological Sciences student for the day, you’ll explore in depth, through a hands-on dissection, the anatomy of an organ to understand how it works and undertake your own surveying, using a range of techniques to discover which species reside on campus.

Applicant Day Biological Sciences

Business

As a Hartpury Business student for the day, you’ll discuss international business and explore how prepared we all are to step outside our usual comfort zone. Find out why we’re the perfect place to study, make some friends, and start the journey of finding the career that’s best for you.

Applicant Day Business

Equine

As a Hartpury Equine student for the day, you could be analysing rider posture in our Margaret Giffen Centre for Rider Performance, delving into the science of racehorse performance, or assessing one of our patients on our water treadmill as we consider rehabilitation techniques together.

Applicant Day Equine

Sport

As a Hartpury Sport student for the day, you could be delving into the important area of ‘recovery’ nutrition, jumping into the world of sports therapy, or learning about the transferability of training with our specialist strength and conditioning team.

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Veterinary Nursing

As a Hartpury Veterinary Nursing student for the day, you’ll understand what life as a small animal or equine veterinary nurse is really like, directly from Hartpury students and graduates, and get hands-on with a group practical session of your own.

Applicant Day Veterinary Nursing

Explore accommodation

Guaranteed Hartpury accommodation for all first-year students*

Hartpury campus halls

Close to your lectures, sports, and social activities, with plenty of green space.

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Hartpury Gloucester accommodation (Blackfriars)

Shopping, eating and drinking are on your doorstep, still just 15 minutes from campus.

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Guaranteed accommodation*

We guarantee Hartpury accommodation for all first-year undergraduate students.*

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*Students living within a 15-mile radius of Hartpury are expected to commute and applications will only be considered from these students if vacancies occur after rooms have been allocated to all applicants living outside this radius. See our University Residential Accommodation Allocation Policy for more information.