Georgia's two best-known universities also happen to offer the state's best education programs. One of the most extensive education programs in Georgia is at the University of Georgia (UGA)'s College of Education. At UGA, education students pick from 16 undergraduate majors or more than 30 graduate programs, depending on their chosen concentration and career path. The College of Education at UGA turns out more teachers than any other college in the state of Georgia.
Georgia State University (GSU) has its own education college. It offers a program about as comprehensive as UGA's, with six areas of concentration: counseling and psychological services, early childhood education, middle-secondary education and instructional technology, kinesiology and health, educational psychology and special education and educational policy studies. More than 50 degrees can be obtained at GSU.
While GSU's and UGS's programs may be the state's most impressive offerings, Georgia's other universities are no slouches. Georgia Southern University's College of Education is divided into three departments: curriculum, foundations and reading, leadership, technology and human development and teaching and learning. Curriculum, foundations and reading students focus on either curriculum or reading, while students in the latter departments pick from one of nine concentrations, ranging from higher education administration to middle grades education.
The University of West Georgia's education college offers the opportunity to study in one of 11 areas: counseling and educational psychology, curriculum and instruction, media and instructional technology, health, physical education and sports studies, educational leadership and professional studies, special education and speech-language pathology or one of five different subject concentrations (art, business, French, Spanish or music).
Three departments take up residence in the College of Education at Albany State University: teacher education, health, physical education and recreation and counseling and education leadership.
There are three departments at Augusta State University's College of Education as well: educational leadership, counseling and special education, kinesiology and health science and teacher education.
And seven different programs are offered at the School of Education at Georgia SouthWestern State University: early childhood education, middle grades education, secondary education, special education, health and physical education, exercise science/wellness and recreation.
Two notable non-universities where students can study education are Gordon College and Georgia Gwinnett College.
In the education department at Gordon College, students can pick from nine concentrations, some organized by grade and subject. They are early childhood (preschool through second grade), elementary (first through sixth grade), middle school (fifth through eighth grade), secondary (eighth through 12th grade), elementary/art, elementary/special education, elementary/English as a second language (ESL), secondary/special education and secondary/ESL.
The School of Education at Georgia Gwinnett College focuses mainly on early childhood education and special education. But students are also given the opportunity to earn teacher certification in Bachelor of Arts and Science programs including English, history, political science, biology and mathematics.
And Macon State College's School of Education offers two Bachelor of Science majors, one in early childhood and special education and one in middle grades education, and secondary education tracks in biology, mathematics, English and history.