City of Wolverhampton College is leading the way in driving up skills levels across the West Midlands, with its industry-standard facilities providing first-class training for local people and further cementing its position as a leading education provider in the region.
November 2025 saw the opening of the college’s new campus at the £61million City Learning Quarter in the centre of Wolverhampton, while the Wellington Road campus, in Bilston, has benefitted from significant investment and development as part of City of Wolverhampton Council’s campus transformation programme.
The City Learning Quarter campus, on St George’s Parade, replaces the college’s 60-year-old Paget Road campus, in Compton, and offers full-time and part-time qualifications in art and design, business and management, catering and hospitality, computing and digital, creative media, games design and e-sports, hair and beauty, health and social care, music technology, performing arts, photography and science; along with a range of A-levels, English, maths and ESOL courses, and employment programmes for job seekers.
The site boasts modern teaching and learning spaces, professional training facilities including science labs, digital areas, hair and beauty salons, a mock-up hospital ward and broadcast, music, photography and performing arts studios, along with a Careers and Skills Hub and a commercial hair salon that are both open to the public.
The campus’s central location and close proximity to the city’s new £150 million transport interchange makes it easily accessible by people from across the region and it is forecast that, over the next 10 years, the site will welcome around 45,000 students and that 7,500 new apprenticeships will be started.
Just four miles from the city centre, the college’s Wellington Road campus offers qualifications in automotive, bakery, childcare and early years, construction, engineering, sport, travel and tourism and uniformed public services.
Facilities include a purpose-built £8.1 million Advanced Technology and Automotive Centre – which opened in 2024 and features state-of-the-art workshops and training areas for automotive and engineering studies – and a recently extended construction centre with dedicated workshops for brickwork, carpentry and joinery, electrical installation, painting and decorating, plastering and plumbing.
The site also features an outdoor construction groundworks site equipped with a rage of small plant equipment, a new professional bakery kitchen and commercial shop, early years training nursery, and modern sports centre featuring weather-proof 3G pitches, a fitness suite and multi-use sports hall.
The campus is well-served by local buses and is just a 10-minute walk from the Midlands Metro stop at Priestfield.
The college is committed to achieving carbon net zero by 2033 and the energy-efficient city centre campus, renewable energy systems, lighting upgrades and sustainable travel schemes has reduced costs and cut emissions to 300 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, contributing to the sustainable future of the city.
For more information visit www.wolvcoll.ac.uk or call 01902 836000.
This article originally appeared in the Regeneration supplement in the Express & Star newspaper on January 20, 2026 – scroll to page 7 of the supplement to see the print article.
