[3][4] City College Norwich has over 11,000 students on a wide range of full and part-time courses for young people and adults.

[5] The college also has a site at Norfolk House in Norwich city centre, which is home to its School of Higher Education.

The unique ingredient has been the involvement of the College's AS learners – who named themselves "The Really Useful Group" – in the design of an AS friendly physical environment which developed into the RUGroom.

A planned redevelopment of the entire Ipswich Road site did not go ahead due to mismanagement of a college building programme by the Learning and Skills Council in 2009.

[17] The Ipswich Road campus is also home to the Debut Restaurant,[18] based within the College's Hotel School, which is open to the public during term time.

The College also has a site at Norfolk House in the centre of Norwich, where University of East Anglia-validated degrees and other Higher Education programmes are taught.