DSC offers courses in Arts, Applied Arts, Business, Health, Hospitality, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Tourism, and General Studies to its active student population of approximately 1400.
The Dominica State College was planned as a transition from four already established educational institutions.
The idea was brought to fruition and proposed to parliament by the then Minister for Education Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit.
Mr Zechariach Pollock, Head of the Education Planning Unit of the Ministry of Education Headed the initiative, supported by consultant Dr. Hilroy Thomas, and assisted by Miss Avril Warner and Dr. Helen Francis Seaman.
By 2003, when the school had transitioned to be DSC, the president was Dr. Bernard Yankey, the former Organisation of East Caribbean States ambassador to Canada.