Wigan & Leigh College has four 'Centres of Excellence' in Sport, Creative Arts, Engineering and Health and Social Care.

However, it was still peripatetic, with no fixed location and was based in other local venues such as the Town Hall, the Conservative Club and Wigan Grammar School, until 1882 when its first college building was erected.

[2] In 1903, after raising £50,000,[1] the college moved a new ornate campus building, which was used for much of the 20th century (now used as Wigan Town Hall).

[4] The new red-brick building, built in the English Renaissance style, cost £23,000 and also included a public library and a "chemical theatre and laboratory" on the upper floor.

[6] The current institution was formed after the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 when Wigan and Leigh colleges merged.