The college's £77 million 'Central Campus' was opened on Spon Lane in West Bromwich in March 2012; it houses facilities for teaching a wide variety of skills-based courses to school leavers and adults.

Courses include the following: Most areas of teaching offer Higher Education qualifications such as the Foundation Degree and HND.

In addition, several hundred school leavers study for A Levels and university in Central St. Michael Sixth Form.

Sandwell College can trace its history back to the first local technical schools created by the philanthropy of Black Country industrial 'giants' in the mid-19th Century.

Chance Brothers Limited, whose factory produced the million square feet of glass for the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851, established a school on Spon Lane, West Bromwich in the mid-1840s.

In 2004, the Birmingham Post & Mail indicated that a debt-ridden college[3] accrued a £12 million deficit in over two years leading to a fraud investigation by West Midlands Police and the loss of 100 staff.