Medicine Hat College is a public, board governed, comprehensive community college serving a large region of south-eastern Alberta and south-western Saskatchewan, Canada. Medicine Hat College has two campuses. The larger campus is in the "Oasis of the Prairies", Medicine Hat, a city of about 50 000 people located 250 km Southeast of Calgary. The second campus is in Brooks, a town of 12,000 people located 100 km west of Medicine Hat. The idea of Medicine Hat College was born in 1964, and the first students (97 full-time and 11 part-time) were accepted in 1965 and housed in temporary quarters provided by Medicine Hat High School. The college moved onto its own campus in 1971, and in 1979 Brooks Campus was brought into being. Classes in Brooks were taught in a portion of the old Brooks Hospital until 1991 when the new Brooks facility was opened on its own campus.