The 186 acre campus on Albany's western edge[6] included a 470-seat theater, library, fitness center, computer labs, and sports facilities such as tennis and racquetball courts, indoor swimming pool, indoor bowling alley and climbing wall, with surrounding nature trails, soccer fields, ball fields, and pecan trees.
At one time, Darton College enrolled more than half of the area's high school graduates and approximately 45% of the students were from Dougherty County.
To increase access to a college education, grants enabled Darton to offer 39 fully online degrees, 10 partially online degrees, 13 fully online certificate programs, and over 96 individual distance learning courses over the Internet, through local Channel 19 telecasts, GVNS video-conferencing, and at sites off the main campus: Cordele, Thomasville, Colquitt, Rome, Barnesville, Columbus, Valdosta, Waycross, Sandersville, Swainsboro, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Darton College had a strong presence in state distance learning initiatives, with its core curriculum courses in many programs available online.
[9] Darton College received a $2.48 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor in 2005 to develop an online nursing program.
In May 2011, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved Darton's change to State College status so that a four-year program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing could be developed.
It was named a “Most-Wired Campus” by Yahoo and a “Leader in Digital Technology” by the American Association of Community Colleges.
Extracurricular activities included groups such as the Cultural Exchange Club, Book Talk and the Darton Association of Nursing Students, as well as intramural athletics, pecan picking, league tournament athletics, community service associations and honor societies.
Darton's men and women swimming programs placed third overall at the 2007 NJCAA National Championships with virtually every member on the competing roster securing All-American Honors.
Darton College Men's XC team final time winning the GCAA Cross Country Championship back on October 25, 2014, was a year to remember.