of Surbiton. Finally, there is Kingston Bridge House which is situated on the edge of Bushy Park at the Hampton Wick end of Kingston Bridge, London.
== International partners ==
The university holds a number of links with institutions from around the world to share teaching and research and facilitate staff and student exchanges. Kingston has a number of international 'Study Abroad' or 'Exchange' partner institutions.
== Controversies ==
=== Humanities department closure 2025 ===
Kingston University has initiated the closure of its humanities department, including its graduate research teaching programme in philosophy, the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). In February 2024, the Head of the School of Creative and Cultural Industries advised students that it had launched a review of its philosophy programme, citing declining enrolment, lack of government funding and the Philosophy programme’s focus on post-graduate teaching as reasons. The review was expected to complete in six weeks. The outcome of that review was not made public. On 26 February 2025, the Dean of Kingston School of Art advised students that Kingston had begun a 30 day consultation period to shut down teaching in the entirety of the humanities, to include closure of its English and philosophy programmes, stating that these programmes are inconsistent with Kingston’s new Town House strategy and future skills delivery.
The Times Higher Education noted that "Kingston has also suspended applications for new students to its foundation year humanities programme “with a view to it closing in the new longer term”, according to the email sent by Kingston School of Art dean Mandy Ure." The closures are also expected to affect the creative writing program and the Kingston Language Scheme which teaches modern languages. In an open letter, published in the contemporary art forum e-Flux and the British publishing house Verso, the CRMEP students state they "unequivocally condemn" the closures, writing that the proposals are an "affront …
