Glasgow International College (Phase 1) CP05/893

Start Date: May 2007                                              

Completion Date: August 2007

Cost: £1m

Project Brief: In a Scottish first - an International College which will prepare students from around the world to take places at the University of Glasgow has been established in Anderson College on Gilmorehill Campus.

Vacant space in Anderson College has been refurbished to provide teaching accommodation for the first intake of up to 250 students in September 2007, together with associated staff accommodation.  By the time the college is fully established in 2011, the total intake figure is expected to be 800.  Total student numbers by 2011 will be 1000.  It is planned to progressively refurbish Anderson College in line with growth in student numbers.  Phase Two of the refurbishment programme began in Spring 2008.

Anderson College is a Listed Category B building.  The original Architect was James Sellars and it was completed in 1889.  The interior was rebuilt and extended in 1990.

John Anderson, after whom the Building was named, and the Andersonian Institute founded in his name established and carried on the liberal principles of making education more widely available to the working people of Glasgow.