This is a list of current further education and higher education colleges in Scotland. Most colleges provide both levels of qualification.
Further education colleges offer courses for people over the age of sixteen, involving school-level qualifications such as Higher Grade exams, as well as work-based learning.
Higher education colleges offer degree-level courses, such as diplomas.
Scottish colleges are funded primarily by the Scottish Funding Council, with tuition fees paid by individual students or their sponsors.
Not included in this list are a number of colleges which became affiliated with the UHI Millennium Institute, a grouping of further education colleges mostly located in the Highlands, in 2001. Since January 2011, these 13 colleges are now officially federated as constituent colleges of the University of the Highlands and Islands upon being granted university status.
CollegeLocationFoundedNotes Ayrshire College Ayr, Kilmarnock, Kilwinning and Largs 2013 Merger of Ayr College, Kilmarnock College and the Kilwinning and Largs campuses of James Watt College Borders College Galashiels, Hawick, Newtown St Boswells and Tweedbank 1984 Merger of the Agricultural Centre at Newtown St Boswells, Duns Agricultural Centre, Galashiels Technical College and Henderson Technical College City of Glasgow College Glasgow 2010 Merger of Central College (previously Central College of Commerce, Glasgow College of Nautical Studies and Glasgow Metropolitan College — itself a merger of Glasgow College of Building and Printing and Glasgow College of Food Technology) Dumfries and Galloway College Dumfries and Stranraer 1973 Dundee and Angus College Arbroath and Dundee 2013 Merger of Angus College and Dundee College Edinburgh College Dalkeith and Edinburgh 2012 Merger of Edinburgh's Telford College, Jewel and Esk College and Stevenson College, Edinburgh Fife College Cowdenbeath, Cupar, Dunfermline, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, Leven, Lochgelly and Rosyth 2013 Merger of Adam Smith College, Carnegie College and the Elmwood campus of SRUC. Not to be confused with the former Fife College which merged into Adam Smith College. Forth Valley College Alloa, Falkirk and Stirling 2005 Merger of Clackmannan College and Falkirk College Glasgow Clyde College Glasgow and Rutherglen 2013 Merger of Anniesland College, Cardonald College and Langside College Glasgow Kelvin College Glasgow 2013 Merger of John Wheatley College, North Glasgow College and Stow College Glasgow School of Art Glasgow 1845 Leith School of Art Edinburgh 1987 New College Lanarkshire Coatbridge, Cumbernauld and Motherwell 2013 Merger of Cumbernauld College and Motherwell College. Absorbed Coatbridge College in 2014.legislation.gov.uk Newbattle Abbey College Dalkeith 1937 North East Scotland College Aberdeen and Fraserburgh 2013 Merger of Aberdeen College and Banff and Buchan College Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Glasgow 1845 Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) Aberdeen, Ayr, Broxburn, Dumfries, and Edinburgh 2012 Merger of Barony College, Elmwood College, Oatridge Agricultural College and the Scottish Agricultural College The Elmwood Campus in Cupar was transferred to Fife College in 2013. South Lanarkshire College East Kilbride 1948 West College Scotland Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley 2013 Merger of Clydebank College, the Greenock Campus of James Watt College, and Reid Kerr College West Lothian College Livingston 1965 Relocated from Bathgate to Livingston in 2001
See also Education in Scotland List of further education colleges in England List of further education colleges in Wales List of universities in Scotland List of further education colleges in Northern Ireland
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