The college was inaugurated in 1930 after the British Government had received a bequest from the Iraqi-born Jewish philanthropist Sir Ellis Kadoorie.

[1] Soon after many institutions and leaders of the Yishuv made a petition to Herbert Samuel for the establishment of a Jewish school.

After the 1967 Six-Day War the importance of the college to agriculture in the West Bank declined, with deterioration of the farm buildings.

At the beginning of the peace process and following the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), there was a rejuvenation of the agricultural aspect of the college, through both governmental and non-governmental funding.

An Italian organization in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and the Land Research Centre (LRC) set about repairing the dilapidated cattle farm.

With a grant from the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, a pilot project for the design, construction and operation of a biogas digester was erected at Kadoorie College, with the Energy Research Centre (ERC) of An-Najah providing technical assistance, supervision and valuation of results.