The College took off with 21 NCE regular students in 1974 and enrolled its first setoff NCE sandwich students totaling 252 in 1986. There has been a fairly remarkable increase in student enrollment in the College especially with the introduction of preliminary course and a remedial course in the NCE programmes.
| Academics years | Numbers of regular students | Number of Sandwich NCE students | No. of Diploma students | Total |
| 1991/92 | 2010 | 4743 | 670 | 7,423 |
| 1992/93 | 1093 | 4551 | 1435 | 7,079 |
| 1993/94 | 1516 | 3388 | 792 | 4, 696 |
| 1994/95 | 1939 | 2395 | 500 | 4, 934 |
| 1995/96 | 292 | 1835 | 673 | 4,234 |
| 1996/97 | 2531 | 1257 | 429 | 5, 217 |
| 1997/98 | 4323 | 881 | 281 | 5, 899 |
| 1998/99 | 5018 | 808 | 204 | 204 |
| 1999/2000 | 488 | 1,465 | 106 | 4,888 |
| 2000/2001 | 6145 | 1426 | 126 | 6, 145 |
| 2001/2002 | 9492 | 1159 | 132 | 9, 429 |
| 2002/2003 | 12138 | 1088 | 132 | 12, 138 |
| 2004 | 12,763 |