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Intown Colleges and Universities
There are quite a few very fine institutions of higher education in Atlanta. For your convenience, we have included the major intown schools here, including a few that are not actually in our neighborhoods.
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- Agnes Scott College
Decatur, GA 30030
404.471.6000
- Agnes Scott College is not only one of the best private colleges for women in the country, it has been named one of the "Top 50 National Liberal Arts Colleges" and the "Best Liberal Arts College in Georgia" (US News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2004). Agnes Scott College is a small school with fewer than 1,000 students. It is located within the South Candler Street/Agnes Scott College historic district in Decatur, Georgia. The historic district was listed with the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The school's campus grew with the surrounding community and contains examples of academic building designs using the classic Collegiate Gothic style, as well as Victorian architecture.
Agnes Scott offers lectures and cultural events throughout the year and is home to the Bradley Observatory and Delafield Planetarium.
- Atlanta University Center
Atlanta, GA 30314
- Located on the southwest side of Downtown Atlanta, the Atlanta University Center is the largest consortium of historically Black institutions of higher learning in the world. It includes: Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, the Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College.
Clark Atlanta University, a comprehensive, private, urban, coeducational institution of higher education with a predominantly African-American heritage, was formed by the consolidation of Clark College, a four-year undergraduate institution oriented to the liberal arts, and Atlanta University, which offered only graduate degrees.
Morehouse College has been ranked twice as the number one college in the nation for educating African American students by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the nation's largest, private liberal arts college for African-American men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and confers bachelor's degrees on more black men than any other institution in the world. Morehouse offers a number of programs and activities to enhance its challenging liberal arts curriculum through the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, Morehouse Research Institute, and Andrew Young Center for International Affairs.
The Morehouse School of Medicine is a historically black institution established to recruit and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists, and public healthcare professionals committed to the primary healthcare needs of the underserved.
Spelman College was founded in 1881 and is a private, independent, liberal arts, historically Black college for women. It serves more than 2,100 students from 41 states and 15 foreign countries, and was ranked among the top 75 Best Liberal Arts Colleges according to U.S. News & World Report, 2005 edition.
- Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30307
404.727.6123
- This school lies at the heart of the neighborhoods we serve. Located just 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta in the tree-lined suburban neighborhood of Druid Hills, Emory University is positioned along the Clifton Corridor, which also includes the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society. Emory University has approximately 12,000 students, and is home to nine major academic divisions, numerous centers for advanced study, and a host of prestigious affiliated institutions. In addition to Emory College, the University encompasses a graduate school of arts and sciences; professional schools of medicine, theology, law, nursing, public health, and business.
Emory offers a number of excellent services to members of the community at large. The "Evenings At Emory" program has great course offerings in a wide range of non-academic subjects. Community residents are able to purchase memberships at Emory's Student Activity and Academic Center, and there are frequent cultural opportunities at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and at Glenn Memorial Church, which is located adjacent to the Emory campus. Emory is also home to Emory Hospital and the Emory Clinic.
The Emory University Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
404.894.2000
- The Georgia Institute of Technology (or Georgia Tech as it is more commonly referred to), is located on Atlanta's west side, just across the connector (I-75/85) from Midtown and Ansley Park. Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city, and includes more than 900 full-time instructional faculty and more than 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Year after year, Georgia Tech is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & World Report's listing of America's top ten public universities. The university is comprised of six colleges (architecture, computing, engineering, management, liberal arts, and sciences).
Tech also maintains nationally ranked mens and women's sports teams and is home to the Ferst Center for the Arts, which offers wide ranging cultural opportunities throughout the year. Georgia Tech also operates a convenient, free trolley service that loops through the Midtown neighborhood.
- Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
404.651.2000
- Georgia State University, founded in 1913, has a mission of excellence in teaching, research and service. Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, this major research university has an enrollment of more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students in six colleges (Arts & Sciences, Education, Business, Health & Human Services, Policy Studies, and Law). Georgia State is the second largest university in the state, with students coming from every county in Georgia, every state in the nation and from over 145 countries.
Georgia State is home of the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts. This 833-seat performing-arts venue is located in the heart of the Fairlie-Poplar district of downtown and presents the best of national and international jazz, world music, dance and cabaret; School of Music performances; and the Atlanta Film Festival as well as many other events.
- Oglethorpe University
Atlanta, GA 30319
404.261.1441
- Oglethorpe University is a small liberal arts school located in the Brookhaven neighborhood in unincorporated DeKalb county just east of the northern boundary of the City of Atlanta. It was founded in 1835 and has around 1,000 students.
Oglethorpe is best known to area residents for its neo-gothic architecture and its long association with Georgia Shakespeare, a resident theatre company that performs classic works (by Shakespeare as well as others) at Oglethorpe's Conant Performing Arts Center.
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