About Us

East Coast College is a well-established further education college with campuses in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth, offering a fantastic breadth and depth of subjects and technical and professional training for schools leavers and adults up to degree level. Our Lowestoft campus also includes a sixth form college, allowing us to offer an even broader academic curriculum with fantastic progression opportunities to apprenticeships and university.

With specialist maritime, energy and offshore training centres, combined with commercial training and a partnership with University of Suffolk, the college has become a centre of excellence for energy, engineering and offshore skills training.

East Coast College is the top ranking apprenticeship provider in the area and QAA Good for Higher Education.

We will hone your skills and expand your talents while helping to nurture your wellbeing and employability skills. Top quality student services and careers guidance will help develop you as an individual and achieve your full potential.

Hundreds of students from East Coast College every year go on to university or an apprenticeship, into work and build very successful careers. Our tutors pride themselves on being an integral part of students’ individual journeys; offering quality teaching and learning, and excellent student success and wellbeing.

Our Purpose

To transform individuals and build communities through education.

Our Values

Aspirational – Being supportive, exploring potential and challenging ourselves daily.

Respectful – Acting with compassion, being inclusive, and welcoming others in our learning community and to our environment.

Professional – Putting team first, acting with integrity, developing our expertise and having a focused work ethic.

Successful – Determining our ambition, achieving excellence and continually raising standards.