Red Deer Polytechnic is located in Red Deer, Alberta, halfway between the major centres of Calgary and Edmonton. Red Deer Polytechnic, formerly Red Deer College, is a public comprehensive polytechnic institute of approximately 7,000 students in credit programs and 10,000 in non-credit programming. As of July 2021, our institution name is now Red Deer Polytechnic. In 2018, our post-secondary institution received approval to become a degree-granting institution. Now as a polytechnic institution in central Alberta, we will continue to offer the same breadth of credentials and mix of programs in a variety of subject areas that we currently offer. This means we will continue to offer apprenticeships, certificates, degrees, micro-credentials and degrees.