[1] In August 2010, the College's property would eventually be sold off after the Church of Scotland determined it could no longer afford to maintain it.
[2] The College was first established in October 1894 as the Women's Missionary Training Institute as part of the Free Church of Scotland.
By 1998, it would be renamed St Colm's International House and used as accommodations for students from the majority world.
[3][4] Much of the vision of training at St Colm's was driven by the work of its first principal, Annie Hunter Small, a Scot and a former Zenana missionary worker in India.
[4] Women trained at the College would come from a variety of denominational backgrounds and eventually work in the Scottish Highlands and amongst Jewish communities, but also overseas in Africa, China, and India.