Its decision puts preferred bidder Willmott Dixon on track to start work in April on the a 61,350 sq ft building at Faraday Wharf, at the city’s innovation campus.
The £22m facility will contain workshops, classrooms, a café and office space alongside a car park and external teaching area containing railway tracks, masts and social space next to the canal.
The elite college will provide specialist vocational training for future generations of engineers and mirrors plans to build a another HS2 college in Doncaster, which Willmott Dixon is also earmarked to build.