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Perimeter College was founded by the DeKalb County Board of Education as DeKalb College in 1958 and offered its first classes in Clarkston, Georgia, in 1964.Its service area grew as new campuses opened and students came to the college from throughout the metro area.
Georgia State University: Atlanta: Research university: 110 acres (0.45 km 2) Alpharetta, Clarkston, Decatur, Dunwoody, Newton County Georgia Southern University: Statesboro: Comprehensive university [4] 920 acres (3.7 km 2) Savannah, Hinesville Kennesaw State University: Kennesaw: Comprehensive university 384 acres (1.55 km 2) Marietta ...
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 ...
DeKalb Technical College operated as a division and campus of Georgia Perimeter College (known then as Dekalb College) from 1972 to 1986, and as the post secondary unit of DeKalb County School System until June 30, 1996. On July 1, 1996, DeKalb Tech began operating as a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia. In 2000, DeKalb Technical ...
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 ...
Unincorporated - adjacent to City of Clarkston and the Clarkston Campus of Georgia State University Perimeter College: Formerly named Memorial Stadium. North DeKalb Stadium: 1962: 6,500 (one side of field) Within the city limits of Chamblee: William "Buck" Godfrey Stadium: 1968: 8,500
Georgia State University's central campus in Atlanta had a $1.6 billion economic impact with 13,736 jobs; given its merger with Perimeter College, with an economic impact of $600 million, Georgia State's overall economic impact on the Atlanta metro area is $2.2 billion. [7] [8]
Clarkston is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.The population was 14,756 as of the 2020 census, [5] up from 7,554 in 2010. [6]The city is noted for its ethnic diversity, and is often referred to as "the most diverse square mile in America" and "the Ellis Island of the South."