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The university occupies a campus site close to Haymarket in central Newcastle upon Tyne. It is located to the northwest of the city centre between the open spaces of Leazes Park and the Town Moor. The University has a core population of 19,700 students (2006–2007), including more than 2,000 overseas students from over 100 countries.[3]

The current Chancellor is Sir Liam Donaldson. Donaldson is also currently the Chief Medical Officer for England. Donaldson assumed the position of Chancellor on 1 August 2009. The vice-chancellor is Chris Brink, a mathematician and lately vice-chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch.[8]

The university enjoys a friendly sporting rivalry with local universities: the Stan Calvert Cup[9] is contested by major sports teams from Newcastle and Northumbria University, and the Northumbrian Water University Boat Race takes place each year between the rowing clubs of Newcastle and Durham University.[10]

It holds a series of public lectures, named Insights, each year in the Curtis Auditorium in the Herschel Building. Many of the Universities partnerships with companies, like Red Hat, are housed in the Herschel Annex.[11]

Newcastle was the only UK university to formally back the Jubilee Debt Campaign for the cancellation of debt in developing countries, and it has a strong ongoing commitment to the Make Poverty History campaign. At a high-profile honorary degree ceremony in January 2007, the University awarded honorary degrees to Bob Geldof, Gordon Brown MP, and Benjamin Mkapa (former president of Tanzania) among others, at an event which promoted debate on current debt-relief issues.[12]

In 2006, the University was granted Fair trade status, and from January 2007, it became a smoke-free campus. Plans for additions and improvements to the campus were made public in March 2008 and completed by 2010 at a cost of £200 million. They include a redevelopment of the south-east (Haymarket) facade with a five-storey King's Gate building and sculpture as well as new student accommodation. Two additional buildings for the school of medicine were also announced.[13]

In September 2008 the university's first overseas branch was opened in Singapore, a Marine International campus called, NUMI Singapore. In 2011 the university Medical School are to open a campus in Malaysia, called Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed).

The University has also been actively involved with several of the region's museums for many years; the Hancock Museum - recently refurbished and re-opened in May 2009 - is one such example.