under the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) initiative. The Exeter Streatham Campus Library holds more than 1.2 million physical library resources, including historical journals and special collections. The annual income of the institution for 2024–25 was £680.7 million of which £136.9 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £678.9 million.

It was one of the pre-World War II local university colleges granted university