Ranger College provides dual-credit courses to over 40 area school districts.

As defined by the Texas State Legislature, the official service area of Ranger College is the part of the Ranger Independent School District located in Eastland County, excluding the area known as the "old Bullock School Land", and all of Brown, Comanche, Erath, and Young counties, excluding the portion of the Graham Independent School District located in Young County.

[3] The college opened as an extension of the local public school on September 13, 1926, with thirty students.

The Rangers compete in men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, cross country running, golf, rodeo, soccer, and volleyball.

[12] In June 2016, Ranger earned a College National Finals Rodeo championship when sophomore heeler Wesley Thorp won the team roping event, with partner Cole Weeler of Weatherford College.

In 2020, the Ranger College women's cross-country team won the NJCAA national title,[13] and head cross-country coach Kathy Graham was named NJCAA National Coach of the Year.