History

Hurlet Nazarene College was founded in 1944, with just two students, on the outskirts of Glasgow. In 1955, following the union of the Church of the Nazarene and the Calvary Holiness Church, both Hurlet and Beech Lawn College (CHC) were sold, and the new British Isles Nazarene College, with some twenty students, settled in Didsbury, Manchester, in early 1959.

Following the approval of degree validation in 1990, the College's Board of Governors approved a change in name to Nazarene Theological College. In 1997, Emmanuel Bible College, Birkenhead, ceased operation and became an integral part of NTC, and in 2004 the Emmanuel Centre, a new library and classroom unit, was opened, to mark that transition.