In 1967 a house for the university principal Tom Cottrell was completed, designed by architects Morris and Steedman.

[10] The Pathfoot Building, which represented the first phase of development on the campus, was completed in 1968 and originally housed lecture theatres, offices and classrooms in addition to the 'crush hall' where the university displayed its emerging collection of contemporary Scottish art.

In 1993, the Pathfoot Building was selected by the international conservation organisation DoCoMoMo as one of sixty key Scottish monuments of the post-war era.

The building today houses most of the university administration, lecture theatres, departmental offices, classrooms and computer laboratories.

[11] On 13 October 1972, during a visit to the new campus by HM The Queen, she was subjected to a rowdy reception by booing students, widely reported in the media.

The university campus is set within 330 acres (1.3 km2) of grounds beneath the Ochil Hills, 2 miles (3.2 km) from the centre of Stirling, close to the town of Bridge of Allan.

[24] The Andrew Miller Building incorporates an Atrium, which contains several retail and food outlets including a bookstore, bank and general store.

Home to the archives of both the novelist Patrick McGrath[25] and filmmaker Norman McLaren,[26] the Library reopened in August 2010 after a major refurbishment programme.

MacRobert Arts Centre is a small theatre and cinema complex open to members of the university community and the general public.

The university houses a considerable fine art collection in the Pathfoot Building, comprising over 300 works including paintings, tapestries and sculpture.

Of the 2,000 rooms located on-campus, 800 were built since 2013 as part of a £40m investment programme in student accommodation which was completed in September 2015.

[30] Halls of Residence located on campus include: Residential buildings located off-campus, within Stirling city centre, include Union Street, Bayne Street, Lyon Crescent and John Forty's Court, as well as Centro House and Alangrange.

[31] Scholarships are available in five core sports: football, golf, swimming, tennis and triathlon, which allow student athletes to prepare for international competition.

Swimmers included Duncan Scott and Robbie Renwick, who both earned silver medals,[34] as well as Commonwealth gold medalist Ross Murdoch.

The university's new sports centre includes a fitness suite with more than 100 stations, wireless connectivity, three Outrace functional rigs across the new spaces, and new public strength and conditioning area.

[47] In June 2020, it was announced that Professor McCormac had also been elected to serve as Convener of Universities Scotland by his fellow principals.

In May 2015 the university appointed Fiona Sandford as Chair of Court, taking up the post on 1 August 2015, for a period of four years.

Most Scottish degree programmes are designed to include four years of study with the intention of providing a broad and flexible education.

In the 1960s and 1970s Credit Accumulation and Transfer Schemes, which create flexible pathways for students to acquire qualifications, were predominantly used in the US with the UK system operating on a disciplinary progression model.

Initially, Stirling's modular approach, and its inherent flexibility, was seen as novel in the UK, but through time, more institutions moved to a semester basis and today almost all universities operate in this way.

Teaching at Stirling is delivered on a two-semester basis with the academic year beginning in mid-September and the first semester ending in mid-December.

[58] Stirling is an interdisciplinary research-intensive University with a range of research activity focused on Health and Wellbeing; Culture and Society; Environment; Enterprise and the Economy; and Sport.

Stirling is a mid-ranked,[68] pre-1992 UK university with a reputation for high teaching quality[68] and socially relevant research.

[73] The university was one of the twenty institutions to be awarded a Queen's Anniversary prize in 2014 – the prize for Higher and Further Education for ground-breaking research, recognising work led by the Institute of Social Marketing into the effects of tobacco, alcohol and food marketing on the health of young people.

[74] In March 2016, the University of Stirling Management School was accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) for its MBA and MBM programmes.

[79] Animal-based agricultural groups on campus criticised the move and student activists faced personal abuse at their homes.