[4] In 1862, formal classes were instituted and the practice moved to a larger accommodation, a set of stables at 397 Parliamentary Road.

In 1873, it moved to much larger facilities in Buccleuch Street, a former pumping station, and merged into the University of Glasgow in 1949.

The school is now based at the Garscube Estate in Bearsden,[5] on the outskirts of Glasgow, purchased by the university in 1948 from Sir George Campbell of Succoth.

[7] Cochno was formerly the seat of the Hamiltons of Barnes,[8] but during the late nineteenth century, the Estate was home to William Anderson Donaldson, a Glasgow iron merchant of the firm, James Watson & Company.

[9] The school presents students for the degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVMS).