FAQs about Open Days

Yes, everyone is welcome to attend our open days.

However, because of space limitations, we encourage you to only bring one guest.

Where additional guests are not permitted, there are many other alternative activities listed in the programme which they may want to take part in or they can enjoy a coffee while they wait.

Explore our cafés and restaurants.

Yes, all of our Open Days require booking in advance due to their popularity.

You should also pre-book any specific talks and sessions you wish to attend throughout the day.

See our guidance on accessibility here.

Please cancel your place on the Open Day by clicking on the link in your confirmation email called 'View my booking'. Alternatively you can let us know by emailing opendays@warwick.ac.uk.

You can view all your selected sessions by clicking “View or edit my booking” in your confirmation email or on the event page. Under Your current bookings, you’ll see your full itinerary.

To make changes:

1. Click “View or edit my booking”.
2. Select Virtual Open Day – 5th November 2025.
3. Click Modify.
4. Remove any sessions you no longer want and add new ones.
5. Click Complete my booking to save changes.

The University is located in the heart of England, 3 miles (5 kilometres) from the centre of Coventry, on the border with Warwickshire. Whether you're travelling to the University by car or public transport, there are many ways of travelling here.

See our advice on how to get to campus.

Please ask all of your students to register individually for the Open Day so that they can pre-book sessions. Additionally, please email opendays@warwick.ac.uk with details of your school so that we can give you information about coach parking.

Don’t worry! We aim to make recordings available after the event for registered attendees. You’ll receive these by email once they’re ready.

Please try the following troubleshooting if you experience problems accessing your sessions:

We’re sorry to hear that! Recordings will be sent to all registered attendees after the event, so you won’t miss out.

Be sure to check your spam or junk folder in your inbox first to see if it is in there. If your email is not in there and has not come through, contact us on opendays@warwick.ac.uk with your name and the email address you booked through and we will help to resolve this for you.

• Any comments you post in the Room Chat will appear to all attendees in the session.

• Please avoid sharing any personal information within the session. This includes your address, surname, email address, phone number, school or college, usernames or any sensitive personal information.

• In the unlikely event that you see or hear anything upsetting or inappropriate in the course of the online event, please use the Q&A live chat to contact the moderator privately.

• Be aware that all sessions will be recorded.

• We want a session where people feel safe to share their views, and to challenge the views of others. Please be courteous to other attendees, even if you disagree with them.

• Do not record the online session, take screenshots, or share images or recordings of the session, via emails or on social media

• We will avoid one-to-one online interaction with anyone under 18 if no other trusted adult is also in the session. If this situation occurs by accident, for instance because another participant has lost connection, we will terminate the session.

• Since our sessions include some under 18s, we discourage swearing and do not allow content of a violent or sexual nature.

Many departments are holding drop-in sessions on the day, including tours, demonstrations and Q&A sessions. There's also the opportunity to attend our virtual open days.

You can access our event platform through the webpage on a desktop computer, laptop, or mobile device. Our event platform officially supports Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge (Chromium). You may be able to use other browsers, but they are not officially supported. If possible, we recommend using a device with the above-listed browsers. We also recommend you disable all pop-up blockers and ad-blockers as they might interfere with the session broadcasting.

Our Open Days consist of both central and academic activities that you can join. Our full programme of activities will be made available before the events so that you can plan your day to make the most of your visit. You will also be able to pick up a copy of the Open Day ProgrammeLink opens in a new window and Campus MapLink opens in a new window from one of our Information Points when you arrive on the day.

Our central offerings include a 'Welcome to Warwick' talk (lasting approximately 30 minutes), campus tours, and accommodation viewings. Drop in to our Information and Societies Fair and meet staff and students from a variety of societies, student support services and academic departments that all contribute to the student experience at Warwick.

Information Fair

• Accommodation
• Admissions
• Advice Centre
• Community Safety
• Counselling and Psychotherapy Services & Wellbeing and Student Support
• Degree Apprenticeships
• Disability Team
• Language Centre
• Music Centre
• Residential Community Team
• Student Funding
• Student Opportunity
• Students' Union
• Study Abroad
• Warwick Food Group
• Warwick Sport
• Widening Participation at Warwick
• Data Science, Maths & Stats, MORSE
• School for Cross-faculty Studies
• School of Life Sciences
• Warwick Global Academy

There is no specific start time to the event, it depends which session you book as your first activity. Some activities are drop-ins and run throughout the day.

We have a wide variety of food and drink outlets on campus, and you can find the opening times for the Open Days on our website.

You can book to stay in our below onsite accommodation at Warwick Conferences. Use the promo code OPENDAYBB for a discount. Please note that the following accommodation is only open for booking (subject to availability) on the below dates:

• 11th October – Radcliffe (10th October is also available - subject to availability)
• 25th October – Scarman (24th October is also available - subject to availability)

Your links will be sent by email on the morning of the event. Each link corresponds to the sessions you’ve booked. If you would like to add additional sessions, make sure that you book these in advance of the event.