The University experience is so much more than what happens in the lecture theatre and the lab, as these stunning images show.

Taken by staff and students from across the University, these are the winner and runners-up of the University photo competition launched earlier this year. Entrants were asked to send in images summing up ‘my University experience’.

The range is different subjects covered by the entries was illuminating, with locations ranging from University Park to the Alps.

All entries can be seen at Flickr

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Tug of war
Emotion and effort captured at a sports event on Ningbo campus by Haibo Dong, who works in the Graduate School at UNNC.

Fjærland, Norway
Architecture student Matthew McKenna took this on a University study trip to Norway, surrounded by glacier-cut mountains.

Graduation
Medical student Muhammed Faisal Zulkifli captured his friend, Mohammad Asyraf, at his graduation.

The morning after
Alexander McBride Wilson, who studies Classical Civilisation and German, took this picture of his friends after a night out.

Summit
Geography graduate Matthew Bazire took this picture of his climbing partner Martin Trerise at the summit of the Matterhorn. “When I think about University I don’t immediately think of the campus and my degree, I think of the things that I’ve achieved because of studying at Nottingham,” he said.