[3] During the late 1990s, the college had a high increase in the number of students with an FTE base of 1,800.

Gorseinon College offered a range of course from nearly 50 A and AS level subjects ranging from Classics to Environmental Studies to Mathematics and Media Studies, over 20 vocational subjects from Motor Vehicles to Engineering to Information Technology.

However, the college tended to attract students from all over the City and County of Swansea as well as the adjacent local authorities of Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot.

More recently Gorseinon College celebrated after receiving an Association of Colleges' Beacon Award 2009-2010 for its Knowledge Transfer Partnership, which has helped create 100 local jobs, at a presentation ceremony in Westminster, London on 10 February.

The merger process was scheduled to be completed in August 2010[18] and the public consultation document indicates that the new merged institution will operate out of both of the current colleges' main sites.