The college was previously known as Center for Preparatory Studies or Pusat Pendidikan Persediaan (PPP).

It was then known as Overseas Preparatory Program (OPP) or Program Persediaan Luar Negeri (PPLN) in the period from year 2000 until November 2001 when it was renamed yet again as International Education Center to reflect its role as a provider of international education.

On 4 October 2010, it was upgraded to a college by the Executive Committee of UiTM.

In 2014, INTEC has been privatised and no longer part of Universiti Teknolgi Mara (UiTM) INTEC is one of the preparatory colleges in MARA University of Technology (UiTM).

Despite the bumiputra-only admission policy of UiTM, INTEC admits non-bumiputra sponsored students.