It offers industry standard qualifications in sectors such as Health and Social Care, Food and Catering and Hair and Beauty, amongst others.

[6] As of 2021[update] the college describes itself as operating from three principal sites: Printworks, Park Lane and Quarry Hill "with smaller provisions in communities across the city".

[17][18] The Vine is a college site providing education for students with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD).

[19] The decision to merge the three colleges was agreed by the three institutions involved with the joint aim being:[20] "...to raise achievement levels in Leeds and Keighley, offer more courses to suit the needs of everyone from school leavers to employers, and enhance our facilities to be amongst the best in the country."

[22] However, news hit the headlines in spring 2009 of a serious and unexpected financial deficit within the LSC's national Building Colleges for the Future program,[23] from where the grant would normally have been allocated.