The school moved in 1891 to Atholl Crescent, expanding its courses and offering residential places to students.

[5] In 1972, the name Queen Margaret was adopted to dissociate the college from the narrow field of domestic science.

Costing £100 million, the new campus covers 35 acres (14 hectares) and holds educational buildings, a students union, a small gym and halls of residence of more than 800 rooms.

In June 2015, Queen Margaret University announced it would hold public consultations for plans to build a new innovation park and shopping hub on open land around the Musselburgh campus.

[12] The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) comprises approximately 4,500 square metres (0.45 hectares) of the main academic building.

The LRC consists of a facility for both directed and self-directed study, based on an integrated library and information service provision.

This includes the provision of AV equipment in classrooms and lecture theatres as well as more specialised services such as graphics, photography, video-conferencing and TV studio facilities.

[citation needed] Following restructuring in early 2010, the schools of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Business, Enterprise and Management, and Drama and Creative Industries were merged.

Through the Network, QMU in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University delivered the BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen.

The School of Health Sciences offers the widest range of professional healthcare courses of any university in Scotland.

[22] The Guardian University ranking poll for 2024 declared that QMU's BSc (Hons)/MNurse Nursing degree programme was ranked 6th in the UK and that the BSc Paramedic Science course was rated as the top course in the United Kingdom for the training of paramedics.

Grice was Chief Executive and Clerk of the Scottish Parliament prior to his appointment to Queen Margaret University succeeding Petra Wend.

[24] She originally read Italian and French Language and Literature, and Education at the University of Münster in Germany.

[citation needed] Queen Margaret University researchers in food and drink in partnerships with Advanced Microwave Technologies Ltd (AMT), won two major awards for innovation and partnership in 2012 for their collaboration to explore the application of microwave technologies to the food and drink sector.