According to data for the Fall 2017 semester, 812 international students attended Washtenaw Community College.

The college's Advanced Transportation Center was established to help build the talent pipeline for the mobility industry as well as meet the needs of incumbent workers to stay up-to-date on rapidly developing advanced manufacturing, intelligent transportation, and automotive technology.

This includes $4.4 million in funding awarded through the Michigan Community College Skilled Trades Equipment Program.

Washtenaw Community College provides a nationally accredited and licensed child care facility in the Family Education Building for children age 18 months to 5 years.

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Family Education Building was temporarily closed in March 2020, which was announced to be permanent in April 2021.

[9][10] The college claims ownership of the largest fossiliferous limestone rock (55 tons and roughly 400 million years old) ever unearthed in the region.

Since there was no central campus at the time, the 1,200 students who enrolled in more than 30 occupational areas took classes at various sites throughout the county, including an elementary school, dairy farm, in a church basement as well as at a former fire station and the abandoned Willow Run bomber plant.

WCC operations moved to the new campus (and former apple orchard) on Huron River Drive in September 1970.