However, in 2009/10 the University of Birmingham completed its review of the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, including its collaborative arrangements.

The residential block and lodge (1929–30), and chapel (1938–47) are by a local architect Holland W. Hobbiss.

The chapel was the first English ecclesiastical building with an altar built for the celebrant to face the congregation.

In 1836 it became the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, under the patronage of William IV.

The Selly Oak Centre for Mission Studies was formed in 2006 as the successor to the United College of the Ascension, one the former Selly Oak Colleges, and remains sponsored by the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Methodist Church.