Its off-campus sites include the Business Training Center in Gaithersburg and Westfield South in Wheaton, which are operated by the college's Workforce Development and Continuing Education Division.

[1] Established in 1893 and named after its founder Louis D. Bliss, its first class was held on October 15, 1893, in a single room on the third floor of the Warder Building at Ninth and F streets NW in Washington, D.C.[2][3] It started as a night class with 26 students, including Thomas E. Robertson, who would later go on to be the United States Commissioner of Patents.

[6] The school later moved to 219 G Street NW in Washington, D.C.[7] W. B. Connelly, a 1904 graduate of Bliss, worked for the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N.Y., where he led the inspection of some two miles of switchboards for the Panama Canal.

Before going to General Electric, Connelly taught at Bliss; his student Skipwith B. Cole would later become dean of the school's faculty.

In July 1908, the Bliss Electrical School bought the four-story North Takoma Hotel and its 4.5 acres of land from Thomas H.

[13] Afterwards, many Takoma Park residents allowed the students to stay in their homes, many of whom had come from elsewhere in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil, and Japan.

[18] On June 3, 1914, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan addressed the school's graduating class in the auditorium of the Calvary Baptist Church.

At the request of the War Department in 1918, Bliss School prepared an intensive training course in the fundamentals of electricity for drafted men entering the Army.

The school contracted with the War Department to house, feed, and instruct selected groups of soldiers for this course.

The third and last detachment of the Student Army Training Corps was mustered out and disbanded on December 6, 1918, and the school was released from military control.

The newly established Carver Junior College in Rockville was expected to have 40 African-Americans enrolled, but only 19 managed to show up, due both to problems in finding transportation to school and the cost of tuition.

Montgomery College also offers learning opportunities through its extensive Workforce Development and Continuing education programs.

She has partnered actively with Montgomery County Public Schools and the Universities at Shady Grove in the creation of Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES), a support program designed to help disadvantaged students transition from high school to college completion.

[30] In response, the school released a statement supporting Pollard and claiming that none of the charges were justified and that there was no inappropriate use of college funds.

The Takoma Park campus began expanding into neighboring city of Silver Spring with the opening of a new Health Sciences Center in January 2004.

[31] The campus expansion in Silver Spring included the addition of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Arts Center which opened in fall 2007.

On the east side of the campus, a new Student Services Center opened in 2006, the building was later renamed in honor of former college president, Charlene R. Nunley.

In 2013, the Commons Building was named in honor of a former faculty member, Catherine F. Scott in appreciation of a $1 million gift she donated to the Montgomery College Foundation.

In addition to donating $500,000 for its complete renovation, Sarah Silberman funded two endowed scholarships in ceramics and sculpture.

In April 2024, The Hughes announced to open 140,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in the Pinkney Innovation Complex for Science and Technology on the Montgomery College campus.

Montgomery College has multiple off-campus sites across the county for administrative offices, workforce development services, and community engagement.

It is home to the central administrative offices of the college including academic affairs, procurement, board of trustees, public safety, and facilities.

The East County Education Center is a 55,000 square foot facility located in the eastern suburbs of Silver Spring.

The Montgomery College Foundation is a 501(c)(3) (tax-exempt) charitable organization governed by business, alumni and community members.

[47] Each of Montgomery College's three campuses has its own student-run newspaper: The Globe (Germantown),[48] The Advocate (Rockville),[49] and The Excalibur (Takoma Park/Silver Spring).

The Knights (Rockville Campus) women's tennis team won the NJCAA Division III National Championship in 2001 and again in 2006.

[57] Montgomery College-Rockville golfer Brent Davis won the NJCAA Division III Individual Championship in 2005 with a score of 288.