List of colleges and universities in metropolitan Atlanta

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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 focuses on EMBAs, can also be found in the city.

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Emory University is the highest ranked university in the metropolitan area.

The most prestigious HBCUs (Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and Morehouse College) are also found in Atlanta. The educational landscape in Atlanta is rounded out by the smaller liberal arts colleges of Agnes Scott College and Oglethorpe University.

This is a list of all of the colleges and universities in the city of Atlanta and Metro Atlanta.

City of Atlanta

Universities and graduate institutions

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Spelman College
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Morehouse College
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Atlanta Metropolitan State College

Colleges

Community and technical colleges

Neighboring cities and towns

Universities and graduate institutions

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Kennesaw State University

Colleges

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Agnes Scott College

Community and technical colleges

See also

References

  1. Niesse, Mark. "City of Atlanta's expansion to Emory and CDC approved". Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Retrieved December 5, 2017.