The new college retained the name Central Georgia Technical College and will cover 11 counties in the Central Georgia region with multiple campuses (CGTC services students in Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Monroe, Putnam, and Twiggs counties), a region larger than the U.S. state of Delaware.
[3] MGTC was originally established in 1973 as Houston Vocational Center, though the first classes were not held until January, 1974.
At that time, its mission was to provide vocational educational programs to both secondary and post-secondary students.
Oversight of the school was transferred from local authorities to the Technical College System of Georgia (then called the State Board for Post-secondary Vocational Education) in January, 1986, and a year later the school was renamed to Middle Georgia Technical Institute.
In 1993, the Georgia General Assembly also approved funding to build a new main campus for the school on an 83-acre (340,000 m2) site in Houston County, which was completed and occupied by March, 1998.