college. It was a purpose-built site for the Gloucestershire College of Domestic Science in 1962, called the Gloucestershire Training College, and became renamed as the Gloucestershire College of Education in 1967. The college was closed in 1980 to be part of the merger of four Gloucestershire Colleges in Gloucester and Cheltenham to form Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology. There is a memorial on the north wall of St Paul's Chapel in Gloucester Cathedral to the college which records its founding within the precincts of the cathedral in 1890 and presents its detailed history.The memorial states that the college cared for the chapel from 1928 until the closure of the college in 1980.
The campus has range of sports facilities including a floodlit all-weather pitch, a fitness suite and laboratory facilities for a range of disciplines, including bio-assessment and a drumming laboratory, which has developed from the Clem Burke Drumming Project exploring the physical and psychological effects of drumming.
Halls of residence were built on site in 2002 and house 175 students divided into 6 blocks (May, Birdlip, Cooper's, Crickley, Robinswood and Chalford). Additional Gloucester-based accommodation includes Ermin Hall and Upper Quay.
A new £1.8 million performing arts centre at Oxstalls including four performance spaces and drama rooms opened in September 2015.
In September 2018, the new School of Business and Technology, which was part of a £20 million development opened at Oxstalls. This new building houses the Business, Accounting and Law courses.
=== City Campus ===
City Campus is located in central Gloucester and opened in September 2025. The University purchase the property which was the old Debenhams store was purchased by the university in 2021.
=== Pittville Student Village ===
The universities' estates strategy outlines a 10-year investment plan to refurbish, upgrade and develop facilities, which includes the Pittville Student Village project. In May 2013 some initial concepts and ideas for the redevelopment …
