The school offers educational programmes within the technical sciences on a secondary level to post-primary youth, Higher Technical Examination Programme (HTX), and supplementary courses for adults seeking to maintain qualifications (AMU).

It is an independent self-owning institution under the Danish state, managed by a board composed of members from the business community in conjunction with a rector that oversees day-to-day operations.

26)[1] and run by the newly founded Technical Society (Danish: Det Tekniske Selskab).

It was supported by the Association of Craftsmen in Copenhagen, which Kramp had co-founded a few years prior, various foundations and individual guilds.

A new school building designed by Ludvig Fenger on Ahlefeldsgade was inaugurated on 1 October 1881.