The college maintains close links with the Department of Human Nutrition (the successor to the university's School of Home Science), though it now accepts students from all faculties.

[citation needed] Expansions occurred, in the form of two more Union Street houses, but by 1926 additional accommodation at nearby Arana had to be arranged to fill the deficit of space.

Further houses were built over the next ten years and, by 1937, plans for a larger hall of residence had gained sufficient momentum for a substantial fund-raising campaign to begin.

[citation needed] In 1955, encouragement came through the Minister of Finance, who promised to match money spent, pound-for-pound, on a new hall of residence and to provide a government grant of £18,400 for the building of a dining room block to train dietitians – the latter being completed in 1959.

During the school's Golden Jubilee in 1961, the new Studholme Hall was officially opened by the then Governor-General, Sir Charles Lyttelton who commented, on the occasion, that "there is no substitute, in terms of social progress, for living together in a community."