Virtual tours that help prospective students and parents explore your school, college or university before they visit. Bespoke 360 tours with an interface designed around your school, used by institutions from Oxford and Cambridge colleges to primary schools.
Open days reach the families who can travel on the day. A virtual tour reaches everyone else: international applicants, parents comparing shortlists in the evening, and students who want to see the boarding house or the labs before they commit.
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An interface designed around your school's brand and the questions families ask. It suits a single building as well as a whole campus, with no yearly fee, and we make changes for you when things move on.
A different style of tour, hosted by us and editable by your marketing team. Update hotspots, swap media and duplicate the tour for other audiences.
Keep pupils in your tour without publishing their faces. We replace every real face with an AI-generated one that matches the scene.
Only need a walkthrough of one building? A Matterport tour is quicker and cheaper. Want a map as the front door to your tour? See interactive school and campus maps.
We shoot in term time with pupils and staff present, or during holidays for empty spaces, whichever you prefer.
Everything a marketing or admissions team needs across admissions cycles, commercial lettings and international recruitment.
Designed around your brand and the questions families ask, from a single primary school to a multi-campus university, with any space a couple of clicks away.
Subject information, admissions links, staff videos and prospectus PDFs, attached to the room they belong to.
If your admissions system has a web form, from OpenApply, iSAMS, Schoolbase or your own CRM, it can open inside the tour next to book-a-visit and prospectus buttons, so families enquire without leaving.
Begin from an illustrated map, an aerial 360 or straight in reception. Term-time or holiday shoots, whichever suits the school.
Keyboard control, screen-reader compatibility and an accessibility widget for font size, spacing and contrast, meeting public-sector expectations.
Welcome screens, menus and room descriptions can switch language, so international families read the tour in Chinese, Spanish, French or whichever languages you recruit in.
Both start with the same photography, but they are different styles of tour, built and navigated differently, and they suit different projects.
Built offline by our team as a finished, self-contained tour and supplied for your website, intranet or kiosk. Content is fixed at launch and we make any later changes for you. The interface is designed around your brand, so this is the option with the widest design freedom, and it suits small and large sites alike. No yearly fee.
A different style of tour, hosted on 360 Studio, our platform with a content management system. Your team edits scenes, hotspots and branding, duplicates the tour for new audiences and reads the analytics. Best when your team wants to make changes themselves and the tour will be updated regularly.
Four steps, one named contact, and a clear price before anything is booked.
Tell us about the building and what the tour is for. A clear, no-obligation price, with no travel charges anywhere in mainland UK.
We agree the scene list, navigation and hotspot content with you. Our preparation checklist gets each space camera-ready.
A photographer captures each scene on full-frame DSLR kit, five to ten minutes per scene. Drone 360s and still photography can be added on the same visit.
Every scene is individually edited and built into an interface designed around your school. You review a draft, we refine it, then it goes live on your website. Allow one to four weeks depending on the size of the campus.
Each was designed and built from scratch, so the tour looks and sounds like the school or college it belongs to. Read how they work, or open the live tours and look around.
A day and boarding school in the Yorkshire Dales, and a client for several years. The 2026 update has the illustrated campus map, a drone view and the 360s side by side, a guided tour, and accessibility settings throughout.
A day and boarding school with families around the world. An aerial view as the front door, admissions questions answered inside the tour, and the school's enquiry form one click away.
A college behind a gate on a city street. A walking route through the courts, gardens, facilities and student rooms, a written guide to read along the way, and the whole site laid out on a drone aerial map.
Recent school, college and university tours. Each one is live, so you can see how hotspots and navigation work for an education audience.
77% of college-bound students used a virtual tour or virtual reality experience while researching institutions, and 84% of them found it helpful.
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 202565% of prospective students said taking a virtual tour made them more likely to apply to that institution.
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2025The institution's own website is the most-used resource for prospective students: 91% use it and 88% find it helpful.
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2025Bespoke 360 tours start from £700 and are priced on the number of scenes and buildings and the interface design, with a clear quote before anything is booked. If your team wants to edit the tour themselves, 360 Studio tours start from £700 plus a platform and hosting licence from £150 a year. Aerial 360s, interactive maps and still photography are optional extras.
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See what schools, colleges, and universities think of our virtual tours. Clients often tell us how much they value the flexibility of our platform, and how it helps them showcase facilities, engage prospective students, and present their campuses in a way that really stands out.
One of the things we love most is how easy the platform is to use. Editing is straightforward, and the ability to make instant updates or create multiple tours at no extra cost gives us so much flexibility. It’s been great to have such control over our content without needing any technical expertise.Holly ApplebeeThe Duke of York's Royal Military School
The CMS has been really easy to use and flexible to all the spaces we’ve included. We’re so pleased with the virtual tour. It’s good to know how easy it will be to make updates and changes, as I know there will be changes and updates to how we use our facilities in the future! An added benefit was being able to share the virtual tour with my CEO/Director, prior to publication, and to be able to add navigation points, direction arrows and additional content; films, links and more.Helen MooreTreloars School & College
360 Virtual Tours have been an excellent partner. They were incredibly efficient in capturing high-quality shots of our school for the virtual tour, completing the project swiftly. Their CMS platform is user-friendly and boasts a wealth of features, enabling us to create a far more engaging and informative virtual tour than we could have achieved previously.Sarah-Jane BarkerFarringtons School
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Yes, we can design custom overlays that work like mini-sites, bringing all your location tours together under one unified interface. This setup allows for advanced features such as introduction videos, micro-pages for individual subject areas, and Google Maps integration. It’s the perfect way to present your full campus or multiple sites under one umbrella, creating a cohesive experience that feels more like a virtual open day.
An education virtual tour is an interactive 360 experience that allows prospective students and parents to explore your campus online. It’s designed to show your facilities, classrooms, and outdoor spaces while reflecting your school’s branding and ethos. Our tours help you engage visitors before they ever step on site, building trust from the first web visit.
A virtual tour helps you reach a wider audience, especially those who can’t visit in person. It supports admissions, open days, and marketing campaigns by giving a realistic sense of your environment. Many schools now use virtual tours as a key part of their digital strategy to increase enquiries and improve engagement.
Pricing is based on the number of 360 scenes required. Tours of a single building cost less, while full-campus projects with multiple buildings are quoted individually. We provide transparent pricing, and you can request our education sector pricing guide to estimate your project.
With a bespoke 360 tour we make updates for you on request, so there is nothing for your team to learn. If you would rather make changes yourselves, a tour built on our 360 Studio CMS lets you update hotspots, upload new media and create additional tours for purposes such as sixth form recruitment or boarding introductions, without needing technical knowledge.
Absolutely. You can add embedded videos, such as welcome messages from staff or students. This creates a more personal and authentic experience for prospective families exploring your school or campus online.
Most education projects take two to four weeks from the photography shoot to delivery. We work around your term times to minimise disruption, and we always schedule filming at convenient times.
Yes. We have produced tours for schools, colleges, and universities across the UK, including institutions such as The Perse School, Kew College Prep, Farringtons School, Sparsholt College, and many more. We also travel internationally for educational projects.
Yes. Many schools use their virtual tour as a digital extension of their open days. You can share it on your website, in marketing materials, or via QR codes at events to give families a more interactive experience.
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