It had departments such as Food and Fashion, Catering, Hairdressing, and Business Studies, and taught single O-level subjects (re-takes or part-time).

In 1995, Teesside Tertiary College offered £1,200 for every person signing up for A-level course who had eight A grades at GCSE.

Once the merger was complete, planning began for the relocation to a single site at Middlehaven in central Middlesbrough.

MC6 & MC SPORT (a sixth form centre & sports academy) opened in October 2012,[13] and MC STEM (science, technology, engineering & maths) was officially opened by Professor Brian Cox in November 2015.

[14] In April 2022, MC Digital was opened, housing new labs for games development, video editing, computing, and other tech based pathways.

[15] Part of the MC STEM building is now the base for many of the Higher Education courses offered under University Centre Middlesbrough.

The remainder of the site was encompassed into part of the new Middlesbrough Sports Village with an outdoor velodrome replacing the football pitches.

Selected higher education courses exist by virtue of an indirectly funded partnership arrangement with the Open University.