The college's main site is on Monks Road (B1308), specifically to the north, and to the south of Lindum Hill (A15).

More than 11,000 students are enrolled across the three sites, making it one of the largest educational establishments in the county of Lincolnshire.

[citation needed] The college closed its small fourth campus in Louth, Lincolnshire in 2005.

[citation needed] The site was known as Gainsborough College of Further Education, on Morton Terrace.

[6] Fred Rickard died in May 2010, and had joined Lindsey County Council in 1967, having taught in Leicestershire schools until 1970, becoming director of education in 1978, when aged 50;[7] he was educated at Devonport High School for Boys and the University of Leicester.

[8] The merger with Lincoln was proposed in September 1986, due to the lower birth rate meaning that there was less 16 year olds by the early 1990s.

[13] North Lincolnshire College (known as NLC from 1989) was created on 1 September 1987 by Lincolnshire County Council from combining the Lincoln site with Gainsborough College of Further Education and part of the Louth Further Education Centre.

In 1997 the Principal, Allan Crease, in a speech to the Association of Colleges criticised the means of funding from the Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC), where money was allocated by numbers at the college, and staff received less pay than those at school.

[citation needed] The automotive technology program at Lincoln College includes training in fuel systems, electrical systems, driving diagnostics and transmissions, and techniques to install, repair and maintain vehicles.