The College works with local secondary schools to offer entry to applicants of 16 years of age and older.

Tertiary qualifications (foundation and extended degrees and Higher National Diplomas) are offered, overseen by the University of Hertfordshire (UH).

In addition a number of stand-alone courses are offered to part-time students for personal development or leisure.

A new building on Hempstead Road for the college was designed by the architects Henry Vaughan Lanchester and Thomas Arthur Lodge[2] and construction of the large, Art Deco-style college, known as the Lanchester Building, began in 1938.

[6] In 2017 the College was awarded a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework administered by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.