[3] The college also owns and operates satellite campuses in Addison, Carol Stream, Naperville and Westmont.

At the time, classes were held in office trailers and leased suburban sites throughout the newly established Community College District 502.

[13] In 2002, voters approved a $183-million bond referendum that provided funds for renovating and rebuilding the Glen Ellyn campus and off-campus locations.

The Technical Education Center is 178,000 square feet (16,500 m2) and houses the Automotive Technology, HVAC/ELMEC, Architecture, Horticulture, and Interior Design programs, and in a new steel, glass and precast concrete panel building on the west side of campus.

The transfer of the classes to the BIC enabled the construction of the next phase of the Homeland Security Education Center expansion on the west side of campus.

The center houses the college's Criminal Justice and Fire Science Technology programs, as well as the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy and the COD police department.

[26] The Board of Trustees reportedly failed to review the itemized receipts for $26 million of expenditures that college administrators have spent over 16 months.

[29] In 2014, COD President Robert Breuder sent an email to the college's trustees asking them to come up with a justification that would allow the State of Illinois' to disburse a $20 million grant that the legislature previously had approved.

In the email, Breuder proposed associating the released funds with a planned $50 million teaching and learning center.

[30] The appropriation incident and Breuder's email led to an editorial in the Chicago Tribune that called the episode, "a seedy little money grab by officials at the College of DuPage.

"[31] On January 22, 2015, the board of trustees voted to give COD President Robert Breuder $763,000 as a retirement package.

The Chicago Tribune wrote that "some trustees now acknowledge that the buyout was negotiated to terminate Breuder's contract, which had been secretly extended to 2019.

[36] In December 2015, the Higher Learning Commission placed COD on accreditation probation, due to concerns about "operating with integrity and governance of the College."

[37] College of DuPage offers transfer degree and technical education programs in various fields and disciplines.

[38] Academic Opportunities can be found in nine different areas including Adult Fast Track, Dual Credit programs for high school students, Field Studies & Outdoor Adventures, Global Education, Honors programs, Learning Communities, STEM, Study Abroad, and Workforce Development.

Created in 2014,[41] the program provides guaranteed transfer admission to their College of Engineering if specific qualifications are maintained throughout the two years.

[42] This program requires students to follow a planned arrangement of correlating courses that will set them up for their third collegiate year at the University of Illinois.

[57] The center houses kitchens and bakeries, a six-room boutique Hotel run by students of the Hospitality program, two gourmet restaurants open to the public, a culinary amphitheater and the colleges TV station and video production departments.

Waterleaf, one of the restaurant the center houses, serves brunch, lunch and dinner on Monday, Thursday and Sunday.

[58] Tuesday and Wednesdays students in the College of DuPage Culinary Program take over the restaurant space and provide their own brand of cooking and dinner service.

[3] The center serves more than 100 children and houses the Early Childhood Education and Care degree and certificate programs.

[59] The Early Childhood Center was closed June 1, 2018 due to a decline in enrollment and increased operational costs.

[3] The center houses the Basic Nursing Assistant, Dental Hygiene, Diagnostic Medical Imaging, Health Science, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing, Physical Therapist Assistant, Radiography, Respiratory Care, Surgical Technology, Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, Biology, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany programs.

[62] The center also includes a Memorial to the September 11 attacks in the form of several exhibits in its lobby with the centerpiece being a steel beam recovered from the towers.

Annually, the MAC presents tour artists both national and international in the disciplines of theater, music, and dance.

The renovation updated the major performance spaces, addressed significant infrastructure needs and improved several academic program areas.

Hoddinott Wildlife Sanctuary are three natural areas maintained by College of DuPage on the Glen Ellyn campus.

In Addition, in the summer of 2023, the architecture program contributed further to the natural beauty by designing and building a new shed for the garden (Professor Mark Pearson with Design + Build class: Esmeralda Arteaga, Barakat Hasan, Brandon Martinez, Denise Sanchez, and Sami Syed) [65] Tours and work events are offered to the public.

Regarded as the "living room" of COD, the SCC holds the Admissions and Outreach, Campus Central, Counseling and Advising, Financial Aid, Academic Support, Registration, Records, Testing Center, Veterans Administrative Services, and the Cashier's Office.

Besides the main campus in Glen Ellyn, the College of DuPage operates four other smaller locations in Illinois including one in Westmont, one in Naperville, one in Addison and one in Carol Stream.