Facilities

We have excellent facilities available for all our students.

Sport

All students have access to the University’s sport and exercise facilities. These include specialist gymnasia, sports halls, a swimming pool and fitness suites. The Peffermill complex, located nearby, provides high-quality pitches for various sports.

Edinburgh is ideal for anyone who wishes to join a sport. We cater to 24 of the 26 Olympic sporting disciplines.

Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences (ISPEHS)

Students in our sport-related programmes are based in ISPEHS, located at St Leonard’s Land. St Leonard’s Land has a wide range of facilities for staff and students to use in their research and study. These include:

  • biomechanics lab and equipment
  • environmental and human performance lab
  • dance studio
  • games halls
  • physiology lab
  • project lab
  • psychology lab
  • strength and conditioning performance gym
  • swimming pool

Prayer room

There is a prayer room available for Muslim students at Moray House. These are located in the Paterson’s Land building. If you enter through the main entrance (the entrance facing Holyrood Road) and take the stairs to the left, you’ll find the prayer room at the top of the stairs, behind the lift.

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