It is also the only private educational institute in Ontario to be approved by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to grant bachelor's degrees.

At the same time he established RCC Publications, which continues to supply technical data to service technicians in Canada.

In the 1940s Canada's contribution to the World War II effort required immediate and large-scale planning to ensure an adequate and continuing supply of well-trained technicians and operators.

After the war the college did extensive rehabilitation training for Canadian and United States veterans, and later for civilians under government auspices.

Radio College of Canada and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (today Toronto Metropolitan University) were the first schools to be awarded full accreditation.

In the early 1990s Hartley Nichol, president since 1985, assumed full responsibility for the college, and RCC moved to its present facility, a campus on Steeles Avenue West in Vaughan, Ontario, north of Toronto.

On June 24, 2004, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities in Ontario, allowed RCC to grant bachelor's degrees after a successful audit by the Post-Secondary Education Quality Assessment Board (PEQAB).