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Atlanta Metropolitan State College: Atlanta: Four-year state college 79 acres (0.32 km 2) College of Coastal Georgia: Brunswick: Four-year state college 193 acres (0.78 km 2) Dalton State College: Dalton: Four-year state college 146 acres (0.59 km 2) East Georgia State College: Swainsboro: Four-year state college 227 acres (0.92 km 2) Georgia ...
Cartoon from 1922 showing several colleges and universities in the metropolitan area Atlanta, Georgia is home to the largest concentration of colleges and universities in the Southern United States. Two of the most important public universities in Georgia, Georgia Tech and Georgia State, have their campuses downtown. A campus of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, that ...
Perimeter College at Georgia State University [2] is a college of Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Perimeter College was originally a public community college founded by an Atlanta area county board of education before merging with Georgia State University in 2016 to create one of the largest universities in the United ...
Atlanta Technical College (Atlanta Tech or ATC) is a public technical college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is part of the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) and provides education services for Fulton and Clayton counties. [ 3 ]
The Atlanta University Center (AUC) was created in April 1929, when John Hope, then president of both Morehouse College and the former Atlanta University saw the potential gains from such a consortium. Atlanta, Morehouse and Spelman signed the affiliation agreement and became the original members of the AUC.
The institution was originally known as Atlanta Junior College. The name was changed in 1988 to Atlanta Metropolitan College. For several decades after its establishment, the institution was the only predominantly African-American two-year institution in the state. In 2012, the institution began offering four-year degree programs.
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. [18] Its main campus is in Druid Hills, three miles (five kilometers) from downtown Atlanta. [19]
Initially intended as a night school, Georgia State University was established in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce. [23] A reorganization of the University System of Georgia in the 1930s led to the school becoming the Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the ...