Dundee and Angus College has outstripped the national average in a number of areas.
The Scottish Funding Council reported an increase from 64% to 65% in the number of full-time college students successfully completing their course in the academic year 2012-13.
The combined figures for the new D&A College showed a 73.3% success rate among further education students who were studying full-time on non-advanced programmes.
The figures for students on full-time higher education courses such as HNCs and HNDs were also encouraging, with 76% of students successfully achieving in contrast to the national average of 70%.
A college spokesman said: “While our figures had to be collated from the former two discrete colleges which now make up D&A College, they are calculated in the same robust fashion as used by the SFC.
“We can be rightly proud of our achievement in terms of our students’ success, which places us among the very best performing colleges in the country.”
Staff at D&A College allayed fears of a drop in student numbers, saying some of the figures were due to colleges’ enrolment procedures.
A shift in emphasis to courses of a longer duration, designed to help students’ prospects of employment or going on to higher levels of study, meant some people attending short college courses were actually no longer enrolled in the same manner.