Scots College, Montpellier, School building and historic monument in Montpellier, France

Scots College consists of a Scottish Pavilion and an Outlook Tower built by Montpellier architect Edmond Leenhardt in 1924, in rough grey and brown local stone. The rectangular facade has rows of narrow upper openings and larger lower windows, some with metal grilles, under a crenellated parapet. A round turret with a conical roof and spire rises on the left, a crenellated tower section on the right, and the base stands behind a low stone wall with trees and shrubs.

Patrick Geddes founded the college in 1924, settling in Montpellier with his daughter Norah after years in India; the idea dated from his first visit in 1890, invited by botanist Charles Flahault. The Outlook Tower and Scottish Pavilion were built by local architect Edmond Leenhardt. The whole site, gardens and buildings, was inscribed as a Monument historique on 19 December 2013.

Geddes named the site after the medieval Scots colleges of Paris (1333) and Douai (1573), reviving a student tradition of study abroad. The garden parterres honour Greek philosophers along a cypress alley, and the Scottish Pavilion walls carry Geddes's mottoes, among them "By Leaves We Live" and "Vivendo Discimus".

The site is a private, state-owned property that houses the academic delegation for teacher training (EAFC), so the pavilion and Outlook Tower are not open to the public as a museum. Commented visits of the college have been organised by the Metagraphies association with Sabine Kraus. The Outlook Tower's open terrace looks out from the Mediterranean to the Pic Saint-Loup.

The Outlook Tower is a copy of the geographical museum Geddes opened in Edinburgh's Old Town in 1892; its open rooftop terrace looks out from the Mediterranean to Pic Saint-Loup. The site also holds a monument to Joan of Arc, and the whole parcel, terraces and gardens included, was listed in 2013.