In an unusual arrangement, the college was financed through a joint committee composed of representatives of all the Welsh local authorities.
[1] The College acquired Frondeg dairy farm and a beef and sheep unit at Tan y Graig.
The WAC later diversified its provision to include courses in Countryside Management and Equine Studies.
The college had a small contingent of young lecturing staff (Professor Wynne Jones OBE 1970s-1988, latterly Principal of Harper Adams College; Dr John Harries 1974-1995, former Principal of WAC and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Aberystwyth University).
In 1995, the WAC merged with the then University of Wales, Aberystwyth's Department of Agricultural Sciences to form its Institute of Rural Studies, with Michael Haines appointed as its first director.