Durham College is a public college in Oshawa, Ontario, with a Whitby campus, guided by its vision of transforming lives, building careers, and enriching communities.
Durham College is located at 2000 Simcoe St. N. in Oshawa, Ontario, with a second campus at 1610 Champlain Avenue in Whitby, Ontario. The college's strategic vision is transforming lives, building careers, and enriching communities. Its values are collaboration, diversity and inclusion, excellence, innovation, integrity, respect, and social responsibility. The strategic vision sets out four goals: future-focused, sustainable, people-centred, and community-connected.
A volunteer board of governors first met on October 13, 1966. Durham College officially opened for studies on September 18, 1967, in 16 portable classrooms. Dr. Gordon Willey, an engineer by trade who placed special emphasis on technology, was the college's first president. The Whitby campus opened in 1993, after the college purchased the Cadbury chocolate factory. The Oshawa campus opened its Student Services building in March 2011. Dr. Elaine Popp became president in March 2024, succeeding Don Lovisa.
The Centre for Innovation and Research, located in the former J Block at the Oshawa campus, was finished in April 2023 and houses the Office of Research Services, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Centre for Skilled Trades and Technology is a 60,000 sq. ft. building completed in 2022 to support industrial skilled trades training, innovation and education. Facilities include a Campus Fieldhouse, Campus Health and Wellness Centre, Campus Ice Centre, computer learning commons, Esports Gaming Arena, food services, campus libraries at Oshawa and Whitby, campus lockers, parking, a Campus Bookstore, study spaces at both campuses, and a Test Centre.
Admission routes include the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or an equivalent secondary diploma, Mature Student Status, and Convention Refugee or Refugee Claimant admission. Highly competitive programs use a selection process, and all other programs use selection with a conditional offer.
Durham College's Ontario College Quality Assurance Service (CQAAP) audit received an exemplary review, achieving "mature" status for its quality assurance approaches and procedures.