The College and its Facilities

Barony College specialises in vocational training and education for the land-based and animal care industries. Our highly qualified staff, modern facilities, stimulating curriculum and training programmes are here to benefit all. Our College estate supports dairy, beef, sheep, cereals, trout and red deer enterprises. Commercial activities also take place within our forestry and horticulture sections. This enables us to provide students with "hands on" training in a real working environment.

Recent developments at the College have created even more practical training facilities. The facilities on campus provide an ideal training environment for all subjects. The most recent was the development of our Dairy Technology Centre which was opened by HRH The Princess Royal in September 2006.

This £1.3 million capital investment, partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund from the South of Scotland European Partnership, is helping to create a new training facility which incorporates the latest animal welfare designs and management systems, as well as maximising the use of available technology with the unique feature of a robotic milking system.

This latest development adds to the extensive facilities including the Scottish Forestry Industry Technology Centre which houses a state-of-the-art forwarder and harvester simulator, a walled garden with greenhouses, polythene tunnels and nursery stock beds, an animal care centre, providing housing and working areas for small animals, an operating theatre and x-ray facilities, an outdoor riding arena, exercise area and stable block for the equine section, a commercial trout farm, with hatchery, producing around 25 tonnes of fish per annum, and a well equipped engineering workshop all providing an ideal training environment.

For full details of all of our courses, please click onto "Courses" or order a prospectus online.

The College's mission is to provide high quality specialist land based education and training to learners using a range of delivery models