In 1946, Bath Teacher Training College was opened on the Newton Park campus, as part of the post-war initiatives to fill wartime teaching shortages.

The campus is in Newton Park, in grounds designed by English landscape architect Lancelot "Capability" Brown and leased from the Duchy of Cornwall.

[12] In the summer of 2012, work began on the development of a new academic building called "Commons", roughly in the centre of the Newton Park campus.

The University Theatre, completed in 2006, was part of a £5.7m scheme designed by Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects LLP.

The venue is used by the School of Music and Performing Arts for teaching actors, directors, production managers, choreographers and dancers.

One of the earliest Masters of the school was Anthony Carey Stannus, an Irish painter noted for marine scenes, who later helped establish a society which evolved into the Royal Ulster Academy.

This development, alongside the Dyson School of Design Innovation, did not proceed due to planning issues relating to the chosen riverside site.

The centre handles the majority of postgraduate courses, and includes development support for research projects, postgraduate workshops, studios and seminar rooms providing facilities for the academic schools, specialist facilities for music, photography, film and textiles, a library, shared quiet study and social learning spaces for Masters and PhD research students, a common room, a university research office which works with schools on the development of funding bids to external agencies, and a gallery which is managed by the Bath School of Art and Design in support of undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum activities.

The site would become a new home for Bath School of Art and Design,[21] as the Sion Hill campus did not provide enough academic space for the university's needs.

The proposals detail changes that would be made to car parking provision on the site, as well as a more general transport plan for the campus.

[23] In 2016, the purchase went ahead,[24] and the planning application for the redevelopment was approved by Bath and North East Somerset Council in September 2017.

The British and Irish Modern Music Institute campus in Bristol has all of its courses verified by Bath Spa University.

[35] In 2015, by contrast, Bath Spa University was ranked joint 20th in the United Kingdom with 90% student satisfaction, 4% above the national average of 86%.

[36] The university currently offers accommodation to 2,264 students in several locations around the Bath area, as well as on its main Newton Park campus.

The Main union building runs a bar, café, gym and shop, and hosts regular events throughout the academic year.

[41] The Students' Union building at Newton Park campus was refurbished during the summer of 2014, doubling the size of the shop, reconfiguring the bar/cafe area, improving the gym, and updating the toilet facilities.

It publishes an annual alumni magazine and promotes raising philanthropic income for a wide range of important projects for the university, particularly the Bath Spa Students Fund and bursaries.

The president is Mary Berry, who is a former student of the Bath College of Domestic Science and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the university.

Oak Tree Day Nursery was established in 1995 and operates from two adjoining houses in the parkland grounds of the university's Newton Park campus.