Offer Holder Day Programme: Knights Park campus, Wednesday 8 April 2026
Discover the programme to your Offer Holder Day.
We can't wait to meet you
We look forward to welcoming you to your Offer Holder Day at Kingston University.
There is plenty for you to explore. On this page you'll find all the information you need to help you plan your day.
- When: Wednesday 8 April 2026, 10am-3.30pm
- Where: Main reception, Knights Park campus
- Registration time: Your suggested registration time is listed by your course below to allow you sufficient time to explore the campus and all the day has to offer, however, registration is available throughout the day as long as it’s in advance of your course experience session.
Top tip: We recommend you plan your Offer Holder Day around your course experience session. Take a look at the programme below to check the timetable and see what other activities you can do on the day.
How to plan your day
Every Offer Holder Day at Kingston is designed to give you the best possible feel for your course, our community and student life.
Your schedule may look slightly different depending on whether your course experience session takes place in the morning or afternoon, so we’ve put together some guidance to help you make the most of your visit.
Your course experience session is the most important part of the day – it’s where you can explore your course in depth, meet academics, talk to current students and get a real sense of the learning experience. You can explore the campus or join a tour after your course experience session ends.
- Morning sessions: Plan to arrive on campus with enough time to check in, grab a tea or coffee and settle in before your course experience session begins.
- Afternoon sessions: You’ll have more flexibility to explore the campus and accommodation over the duration of the day. However, if you choose to do this after your course experience session, do check the times of the last tours / accommodation tour bus times to make sure you can fit everything in.
Many visitors want to get a full feel for Kingston by exploring our facilities and halls of residence. Tours run throughout the day, but we recommend choosing a time slot that sits comfortably before or after your course taster session. These timings will help you plan your day so you’re not rushed between activities.
- Accommodation tours: Allow around one hour
- Campus tours: Allow at least 30 minutes
- If you’ve already been to an Open Day: Feel free to focus on the parts you didn’t get to see last time or simply use the time to chat with staff and students, revisit spaces that matter to you, or explore the local area.
- If this is your first visit: A campus or accommodation tour is highly recommended – they’re the best way to understand where you’ll study, socialise and live.
Programme
Your Offer Holder Day gives you the opportunity to attend:
Course experience sessions
Course experience sessions give you a hands-on insight into what your course will really be like. Led by our academics, you will have the opportunity to ask any questions and meet both current students and fellow offer holders.
You can find your course experience session in the A–Z list below.
Whilst these sessions are only for our offer holders, guests are welcome to go on an accommodation tour, visit the support services exhibition and attend our Parent and Supporter Q&A.
Please check the timings for your session and registration below. If you're attending an afternoon session, please plan to explore the campus and accommodation before your session. There may not be enough time afterwards to fit in all the tours on offer.
If you can't see your subject of interest in the list below, your course experience may be held on a different campus. Please email us at [email protected] if you are unsure which campus to attend.
Campus tours
Take a guided tour around campus to explore the facilities at Knights Park.
- When: Approximately every 15 minutes between 10am-3.30pm, (last tour departs at 3pm)
- Duration: Approximately 30-40 minutes
- Departs from: Library, Main Building, Knights Park campus
Accommodation tours
Visit the halls of residence to see where you could live when you study at Kingston University.
- When: Every 15 minutes between 10am-3.30pm (last tour departs at 3pm)
- Duration: Approximately 30 minutes
- Departs from: Library, Main Building, Knights Park campus
- Includes: Middle Mill halls of residence, Knights Park
Accommodation exhibition
The exhibition offers all the information you need about our student accommodation, and there will be friendly staff on hand who will be happy to help out with any questions you have.
- When: 10am-3.30pm
- Where: Library, Main Building, Knights Park campus
Support services exhibition
The support services exhibition is where you can pick up information about the University's main student services. This will include accommodation, admissions, careers and employability, disability and mental health, counselling and wellbeing, student funding and more.
You'll have the chance to speak to experienced staff at these stands and find out more about the University. It's a good idea to plan ahead and perhaps write down your questions in advance so you don't forget something important on the day.
- When: 10am-3.30pm
- Where: Ground Floor, Main Building, Knights Park campus
Parent and Supporter Q&A
The opportunity for parents, carers and supporters to meet with Faculty representatives and support staff.
- When: 11am-11.45am, 12.30pm-1.15pm or 2pm-2.45pm
- Where: Main Building, Knights Park campus
Course experience sessions and registration times
- Registration: 12 noon
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Course experience
Design, modify, fabricate: a CAD/CAM experience
This hands-on workshop will offer the opportunity for offer holders to experience CAD/CAM technologies in action. Participants will work with pre-set files in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, allowing them to modify parameters and create their own designs. These designs will then be fabricated using digital cutters, enabling them to see the tangible result of their digital work.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12pm
Course experience
Constructing Space
Challenge yourself to create architectural space in an activity that explores the fundamental themes of mass, form and assembly using juxtaposition and composition to assemble a series of found everyday objects into an architectural model.
Photographs of your model taken with a camera-phone explore light, shadow and scale to produce characterful architectural images for your portfolio.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience
Insight + Idea = Visual Concept
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief.
We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience
Insight + Idea = Visual Concept
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief.
We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience
Insight + Idea = Visual Concept
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief.
We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 11am-12.30pm
Course experience
Fashion in context
Join a lively discussion on the context and history of fashion. We'll challenge you to think about what fashion is and the broader cultural and social issues surrounding fashion.
We'll then participate in a series of archival demonstrations and conversations which will help put fashion in context and provide insight into how new fashion is developed from what has gone before.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 11am-12 noon
Course experience
Communicating Fashion Stories
An exploration of what Fashion Promotion and Communication is today with an introduction into storytelling and semiotics.
- Registration: 12 noon
- Course experience session: 12.30pm–2pm
Course experience
Scene and heard
Join the Filmmaking team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to watch a scene from a film and recreate it to explore how visual language was used to deploy meaning.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience
This is Contemporary Art Practice
Join our course team, current students and fellow offer holders for a lively discussion of contemporary art practice.
Hear from our students about their experience on the course, illustrated through key examples of Level 4, 5 and 6 projects. This session will conclude with a Q&A with staff and students.
We will then take a tour of our KSA facilities, including Swan Project Space and the Stanley Picker Gallery.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 11am-12.30pm
Course experience
Exploring practices in Graphic Design
Join our course team, current students and your fellow offer holders to take part in one of a series of workshops, providing a practical opportunity to explore some of the different practices within the discipline of graphic design: typography, book design, photography, film and motion design.
During the session, you will also have the opportunity to discuss the course with us and experience our studio culture and course community.
- Registration: 10am
- Course experience session: 10.30am–12 noon
Course experience
What's your backstory?
Dare to think critically during this lively discussion on the process of drawing, character development and moving image techniques.
You and your future classmates will answer prompts about a given character, we'll then switch your answers around and you'll be challenged to design a character based on someone else's description. See how your interpretation compares to someone else's vision!
- Registration: 11.30am
- Course experience session: 12 noon–2pm
Course experience
Captured selves: experimental approaches to autoethnography
How do we translate personal experience into visual form? This workshop explores identity through experimental capture, merging creativity, technology and self-reflection. Through critical making and group discussion, you'll examine how different materials shape the stories we tell about ourselves – what is revealed, what is lost, and how perspective influences representation.
- Registration: 11.30am
- Course experience session: 12 noon–2pm
Course experience
The KID talks
Join our course team and your fellow offer holders for a series of presentations by current students, recent graduates and established alumni.
Together we'll review the entire student experience, from study to practice, and give you the opportunity to ask a range of individuals with varying experience any burning questions you may have.
- Registration: 12 noon
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Course experience
We See You! With BA Photography
Join us in person to collaborate and chat all things photography. We'll challenge you to share a small selection of some of the images you're most proud of and host a live peer review session to gain a feel for how we support and nurture your individual voices and talents.
We will also collaborate with a live brief in situ on the day.
Some of our current students will also be with you to provide crucial insights of their experiences and answer anything you might want to know about the course.
What to bring:
- Please take some time to look back through your images (digital or analogue) and select a few of your favourite photographs you will be happy to show and share on the day.
- You will also need to use your smartphone on the day.
- Registration: 12 noon
- Course experience session: 1.30pm–3pm
Course experience
"Design Through Making"
Explore some of the different maker-based projects that have become the DNA of your course. We'll show you prototypes and processes we use including sand casting, ceramic slip casting and totally new manufacturing processes devised by our students!
Plan your journey to Kingston School of Art, Knights Park campus
This campus is located close to the town centre and public transport hubs.
Kingston University is within the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). For more information, please see the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames website.
Trains run regularly from London Waterloo to Surbiton station (midweek 10 trains per hour, journey times 15–32 minutes) and to Kingston station (midweek four trains per hour, journey times 28–33 minutes). Surbiton and Kingston stations are both in Travelcard Zone 6. Visit the National Rail Enquiries website for timetables and further information.
From Surbiton station:
- Leave the railway station via the main exit
- Cross the mini-roundabout to Claremont Road
- Take the 71, 281, K2 or K3 bus towards Kingston
- Get off at the 'Kingston Crown Court / Kingston College' stop
- Cross Penrhyn Road on to Denmark Road
- Turn left at the mini-roundabout, over the blue bridge
- Turn right on to Grange Road, and the Kingston School of Art, Knights Park is then on the right
From Kingston station:
- Leave the railway station via the main exit
- Cross the road diagonally on to Clarence Street (with the Rotunda to your left)
- Keep to the left and walk past the fallen telephone boxes sculpture
- Cross straight over the one-way system past Fairfield bus station along Wheatfield Way
- Walk past Kingston Museum and at Kingston Library bear slightly left and walk down Fairfield West
- Cross straight over at the traffic lights on to Knights Park
- Kingston School of Art at Knights Park is on your left at the end of the road
The 71, 281, K2 and K3 buses run along nearby Penrhyn Road, and the Crown Court stop is a five-minute walk away from campus along Denmark Road. Visit the Transport for London (TfL) website for further information.
London buses no longer accept cash, but you can pay using an Oyster travelcard or with a contactless credit card. More information on fares and payments can be found on the TfL buses website.
We also run a free intersite bus service for students, staff and visitors. The KU2 links the campus with Surbiton train station, Penrhyn Road and Clayhill halls of residence (nearest stop to campus is Fairfield South, just a few minutes' walk away). The KU1 bus to Kingston Hill and Surbiton stops along Penrhyn Road.
We strongly recommend visitors use the excellent public transport links instead of driving to the Offer Holder Days.
The parking facilities at Knights Park, the Avionics Building and River House sites operate a pay-by-phone system known as 'Parkonomy'.
Limited on-site parking and pay-to-park facilities are also available at the Penrhyn Road campus site which is less than five minutes' walk from Knights Park. Alternative parking in Kingston Town Centre can also be found on the Parkopedia website – which shows current availability and costs.
Free car parking is available on all sites for blue badge holders.
All car park users agree to the University car parking terms and conditions.
Cycle parking facilities and showers are available at this site.
A University shuttle bus will run throughout the Open Day every 20 minutes. Look out for our friendly student ambassadors in the brightly-coloured tops who can help direct you.
The shuttle buses call at the following campuses and stops:
- Kingston Hill campus - Bus stop at the top of the steps that lead down to the Business School and Frank Lampl Building.
- Roehampton Vale campus - Bus stop, just outside the campus by the main road (A3). The bus returns to Kingston Hill, before continuing its circuit back into Kingston.
- Penrhyn Road campus - Closest bus stop to Knights Park campus. Bus stop outside the campus.
- Kingston town centre, on route to Penrhyn Road - Fairfield bus station (KT2 2PG). Stop B2 (near Kingston train station)
- Kingston town centre, on route to Kingston Hill - Cromwell Road bus station (KT2 6RD). Stop A2 (around the corner from Kingston train station)
The journey between Kingston Hill and Penrhyn Road takes about 20 minutes (dependent on traffic).
Knights Park location
Kingston University
Grange Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey
KT1 2QJ
United Kingdom
51.405224269897, -0.29991270000002
Any questions?
Please send us an email if you have any queries about the Offer Holder Day and we'll be happy to help.
