Following the signing of the lease, the college was named, and the foundation stone of the present site was laid in 1922.
It is affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology[1] Wesley College of Education was first established at Kemp, Aburi in 1922 and was moved to the present site on March 3, 1924.
Nana Dabankah, the late Tafohene offered (104) one hundred and four acres of land to the Methodist Church, Gold Coast (British colony), to establish the college.
Open Distance Learning was also introduced in December 2004 for untrained teachers for the award of Diploma in Basic Education.
Prominent among them are Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of the Second Republic, Emmanuel W. Ellison, Snr, D. Y. Opoku, J. Y.
A. Kwofie, J. Kwesi Lamptey, Ben Abdallah, Robert Dodoo, N. K. Pecku, E. H. Brew Riverson, Alex Tettey-Enyo, F. L. Bartels, Gyasi Nimako, Alex Dadey, Kwabena Agyapong, Yinka Sarfo, Yaw Frimpong Manso as well as T. W. Koomson, C. K. Yamoah, C. Awotwi-Pratt, E. S. Essamoah and Jacob S. Adama Stevens, who were past Presidents of Conference of the Methodist Church Ghana.