floodlighting and an extended pavilion.
The university's new West Downs Centre opened in September 2020. The new project was built on undeveloped land within the West Downs site next to the Grade-II-listed Winchester Business School and West Downs Student Village. It provides state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities, a new library, a gallery, multiple shops and cafes, a variety of social learning spaces, and a 250-seat drum-shaped auditorium, and is also home to the university's new computer and digital-related degree programmes. The initial completion date was set for 2019, and then early 2020; however, this was pushed back to the start of the 2020–21 academic year following the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 2022–23 academic year, a new eco-friendly store, The Pantry, was opened on the West Downs campus, accessible to both students and staff, as well as members of the general public. A statue of the climate change activist Greta Thunberg was placed outside the building, but was moved to an internal courtyard in 2023.
== Arms ==
The motto (Wisdom-ond-lar, from old English, translating to Wisdom and Knowledge in Modern English), was inspired by the preface of King Alfred's translation into Old English, during the late 9th century, of Pope Gregory the Great's Regula Pastoralis, which frequently refers to both wisdom and knowledge. Alfred's translation of Regula Pastoralis was instrumental in the pursuit to improve education in Anglo-Saxon England.
== Organisation and administration ==
Winchester's academic structure consists of four faculties and a Degree Apprenticeship Programme, each home to teaching and learning in a wide-ranging variety of subject areas such as:
=== Governance ===
Hugh Dennis is the current Chancellor of the university and was appointed in 2024, succeeding Alan Titchmarsh who held the role between 2014 and 2021. The first Chancellor of the university was Dame Mary Fagan, the former Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, appointed in 2005.
Professor Sarah Greer is the current Vice-Chancellor …
