Welcome to LCC Stornoway

Stornoway is the principal town of the Outer Hebrides and is home to fantastic sports facilities, a brilliant new arts centre and the internationally renowned Hebridean Celtic Festival.  For more sites of local interest visit the local links page.

For a list of courses offered at the Stornoway campus visit our courses section.

The islands, forty miles (60km) off Scotland's Atlantic Northwest coast, have a thriving cultural scene, in terms of music and Gaelic as well as adventure sports. Some fantastic archaeological sites, excellent beaches, moorland, machair and mountains and a way of life that has no equal.

The college specialises in Gaelic, being Scotland's Gaelic heartland, Engineering (with specialisms in renewable technologies), computing, traditional music, fine art, Health studies, including rural health, rural development, food management and hospitality including many more, visit the courses section for more information.

We have been educating the people of the Outer Hebrides and students from all over Scotland for over fifty years, originally in the historic Lews Castle, now in brand new campuses, as a part of the UHI, Scotland's newest and most exciting higher education institute. We offer post-school education at every level, right up to Ph.D.