Welcome to Summer Row
Summer Row, Birmingham B3 1JB
Our main site on Summer Row, previously known as the Birmingham College of Food and Domestic Arts, is a central home for our college courses, and undergraduate courses related to food and hospitality industry.
Summer Row is conveniently located by the bustling Colmore business district, which is abuzz with top restaurants, trendy bars and cool cafés, while you can see the spectacular Library of Birmingham from the front of the campus.
The building, opened in 1968, is home to our acclaimed industry-standard kitchen facilities and our £2 million Food Science and Innovation Suite featuring the latest food testing and diagnostic technology.
Summer Row also features our brand new Aviation and Tourism Suite, offering stunning simulation facilities, including a mock plane cabin, as well as our Treatment Rooms for those training on our aesthetics, beauty and hairdressing courses.
Summer Row has a large cafeteria, including a salad bar, situated on the fifth floor. The popular Cakes & Bakes shop, selling delicious bakery products and chocolates made by our students, is on the ground floor.
University College Birmingham’s award-winning training restaurant, formerly known as the Atrium and the Brasserie, which have been acclaimed by the AA, is at Summer Row. The Restaurant at Birmingham College of Food offers fine dining and casual modern British and European cooking at lunchtime and dinner, and they are the backdrop for special theme dinners arranged by students.
Basement and lower ground
- Stores
- Larder/ butchery kitchen
- Gym (FE students)
Ground Floor
- Reception / Security
- Cakes & Bakes
- Restaurant at Birmingham College of Food
- Larder, mains and pastry kitchens
- Hair, beauty and sports reception
- Treatment Rooms reception (including hair and beauty suites)
- Safer Partnerships Hub
1st Floor
- Sports injury clinic/MSK physiotherapy clinic
- Hair and beauty suites
2nd Floor
- Pastry skills kitchen
- Cake decorating room
- Bocuse d'Or kitchen
- Skills kitchen
- Staff offices
3rd Floor
- FE and HE Guild spaces
- Nurse
- Bakery kitchens
- Confectionary kitchens
- Cake decorating kitchens
- HIRED and placements (FE)
4th Floor
- Wet and dry laboratories
- Kitchen suites
- Mixology suite
- Sensory room
- Staff offices
5th Floor
- Treatment Rooms
- Café
6th Floor
- ThinkSpace
- Academic Skills Centre hub
- Training beauty suites
- Early Years Suite
- Disability and Neurodiversity Support (FE)
- Teaching rooms
- Staff offices
7th Floor
- Make-up studios
- Editorial suite
- Prosthetics studios
- Safeguarding team
8th Floor
- Health suite (FE)
- Teaching rooms
- Reflection / Meditative Space
9th Floor
- Aviation and Tourism suite
- Teaching rooms
- Staff offices
10th Floor
- Teaching rooms
- Staff offices
11th Floor
- Staff offices
- Staff lounge
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Courses
University College Birmingham is home to 7,500 students on a wide range of programmes, from apprenticeships and college courses to degrees and postgraduate qualifications.
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Open days
Come and visit us on one of our open days, where you can find out more about our courses, our facilities and speak to current students and staff.
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Facilities
Supported by a £200 million investment in new campuses, equipment and resources, University College Birmingham's facilities are nothing short of world class.
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Accommodation
Our halls of accommodation, The Maltings, is located at the heart of Birmingham, close to our campuses and a wealth of shops, restaurants and bars.
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Student support
Whether you need support with your learning, finances, health and wellbeing or other areas, our range of dedicated support services are here for you.
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