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.
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)
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.