Students pursue 73 two-year transfer and career associate degrees. Darton's allied health and nursing programs provide southwest Georgia with most of its health professionals - including 70 percent of all the nurses in Albany hospitals and 31 percent of all registered nurses in the hospitals of 38 southwest Georgia counties. More than half of the area's high-school graduates choose Darton College, and about 57 percent of Darton's 2,500 students are under age 24.
Day students tend to be younger than the more non-traditional evening enrollees.
A wide range of extracurricular activities includes groups such as the Cultural Exchange Club, Book Talk and the Darton Association of Nursing Students, as well as intramural athletics, league tournament athletics, community service associations and honor societies. The institution was founded as Albany Junior College in 1963 and offered its first classes in 1966. In 1987, a committee of faculty, staff, students and community members chose the name Darton College.