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.
| College | Location | Founded | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Merger of Ayr College, Kilmarnock College and the Kilwinning and Largs campuses of James Watt College | |||
| 1984 | Merger of the Agricultural Centre at Newtown St Boswells, Duns Agricultural Centre, Galashiels Technical College and Henderson Technical College | |||
| 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) | |||
| 1973 | ||||
| 2013 | Merger of Angus College and Dundee College[1] [2] | |||
| 2012 | Merger of Edinburgh's Telford College, Jewel and Esk College and Stevenson College, Edinburgh | |||
| 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. | |||
| 2005 | Merger of Clackmannan College and Falkirk College | |||
| 2013 | Merger of Anniesland College, Cardonald College and Langside College | |||
| Glasgow | 2013 | Merger of John Wheatley College, North Glasgow College and Stow College | ||
| Glasgow | 1845 | |||
| Edinburgh | 1987 | |||
| 2013 | Merger of Cumbernauld College and Motherwell College. Absorbed Coatbridge College in 2014.[3] | |||
| 1937 | ||||
| 2013 | Merger of Aberdeen College and Banff and Buchan College | |||
| Glasgow | 1845 | |||
| Aberdeen, Ayr, Broxburn, Dumfries, and Edinburgh | 2012 | Merger of Barony College, Elmwood College, Oatridge Agricultural College and the Scottish Agricultural College[4] [5] The Elmwood Campus in Cupar was transferred to Fife College in 2013. | ||
| 1948 | ||||
| 2013 | Merger of Clydebank College, the Greenock Campus of James Watt College, and Reid Kerr College | |||
| 1965 | Relocated from Bathgate to Livingston in 2001 |