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Peer mentoring schemes are a great opportunity to develop your support network when you start at university. You can be matched with a second or third-year student mentor who can help you settle in and give you real insights into student life at Exeter.

We offer two types of peer support schemes at university: 

  • Mentoring or ‘buddy up’ schemes, which match you with a student from your discipline, subject area or who has a similar background to you.
  • Peer learning or ‘PAL’ schemes, which match you in a group with other students on your course and focuses on understanding academic topics on your course.

If you’re starting an undergraduate course as a mature student, a student with a disability, a carer, care leaver or estranged student, you might be interested in being matched with a similar student who’s already been studying with us for a year or more. Or perhaps you’re an international student (see our International Student mentoring scheme). 

See a list of all our peer support programmes.

Many of our mentees from previous years are now mentors and are very enthusiastic about how much the scheme helped them when they first arrived: “Having been fortunate enough to have had a fantastic Buddy-Up mentor this past academic year, I have just signed up to become one myself for the coming academic year!” (BSc Economics and Politics student)

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