High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Midland College (MC) was established as an independent junior college in 1972 and held its first classes on campus in 1975. Since that time, the campus has expanded to a 704,752-square-foot (65,473.6 m2) main campus on 224 acres (0.91 km2) in Midland, Texas, United States - a county seat of over 100,000 people in the Permian Basin region of west Texas and southeast New Mexico. The school also has numerous `off-campus` locations in other parts of Midland, and in Fort Stockton, Texas, the Pecos County seat.