Atlanta Metropolitan College is a two-year school of Georgia's University System that offers day, evening, weekend and online classes. Transfer programs are available for students that wish to transfer to a four-year institution. Associate of Arts programs include art, English, general studies, foreign language, music and speech. Associate of Science programs include biology, African American studies, criminal justice, history, mathematics, political science, pre-engineering and social work. Applied sciences programs include human services, recreational leadership and business management.
Georgia State University is located in Atlanta's downtown and is the only urban research university in Georgia, according to the university's official website. Undergraduate programs include African American studies, art education, computer science, early childhood education, health and physical education and international studies. Graduate programs include anthropology, art history, creative writing, educational policy studies, foreign language education and human resource management. In addition to its general library, the school features a law library that offers free legal research sources and legal databases.
Like Georgia State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology is located in Atlanta's downtown. It is one of the nation's top research facilities and is consistently ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top 10 public universities in the United States, according to the school's website. Degree programs include a Bachelor of Science in architecture and a Doctor of Philosophy in architecture from the College of Architecture and a Master of Science in bioengineering from the College of Computing. The college's other schools include engineering, management, sciences and liberal arts.
Atlanta Technical College features degree programs, customized corporate training and hundreds of non-credit courses. Programs of study in the school's business, information technology and media division include accounting, computer applications specialist, computer programming, marketing management and visual communications. Programs in the health and human services division include basic dental assisting, culinary arts and practical nursing. Programs in the skilled trades and technical division include acoustical drywall installation, fiber optics technician and electronics technology.