City Learning Quarter
Opening autumn 2025!
The new four-storey campus in Wolverhampton city centre is the flagship of the council’s £61 million City Learning Quarter Vision.
The campus will offer first-class education and training facilities for the people of Wolverhampton and beyond, with thousands of students and apprentices set to walk through the doors and gain the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their future career.
The campus will boast state-of-the-art industry-standard training facilities and learning technology for around 2000 students and nearly 200 staff.
What’s more, its city centre location and excellent links to the road network, public transport and cycle routes will make it accessible for hundreds more from across the West Midlands and beyond.
What subjects will be taught at the new campus?
The new campus will house the following subject areas:
- Access to HE
- A Levels
- Art and Design
- Business
- Catering and Hospitality*
- Computing and Digital
- Creative and Digital Media
- Employability
*Bakery will remain at the Wellington Road Campus
- Games Design and E-sports
- ESOL
- Hair and Beauty
- Health and Social Care**
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Photography
- Science
** Courses for adult learners will remain at the Wellington Road Campus
The new campus – currently under construction – is set to open in autumn 2025 will enable the college to move from the Paget Road site which has been identified for much-needed housing.***
The proposals for the City Learning Quarter campus were supported by an initial £6.2 million investment from the City of Wolverhampton Council and Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership, which enabled the completion of design work, site surveys, ground investigations, site acquisition and clearance.
The council also secured £20 million from the government’s Levelling Up Fund and £5 million from the Towns Fund to help deliver the City Learning Quarter vision.
*** Find out more about development opportunities on the Paget Road site here
Take a look at how the exterior and interior of the new campus is shaping-up
Completed campus transformation schemes
Advanced Technology & Automotive Centre
Completed September 2024
A purpose-built industry-standard training centre for all automotive, electric vehicle and engineering courses.
Construction Innovation Centre extension
Completed September 2022
An extension to the existing construction centre extension housing new training workshops and classrooms for construction courses.
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