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Atlanta Metropolitan State College is a small public college on a wooded 68-acre campus off Metropolitan Parkway in southwest Atlanta. It opened in 1974 as Atlanta Junior College, and for decades it was Georgia's only predominantly Black two-year public college. It now offers bachelor's degrees in fields such as financial technology and film alongside associate transfer pathways. Most of its students are working adults, many of them studying part-time or online.
Atlanta Metropolitan State College is a college & university in Atlanta, Fulton County. It is one of 5 colleges & universities documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7047, -84.4097 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Epting, Thomas and Rae, Lustron House (historic place), about 0.5 miles away. Others within a short drive include Adams, Jack and Helen, Lustron House, Sperry & Hutchinson Company Warehouse, and Kilpatrick’s Cavalry on the Newnan Stage Road.
This record is drawn from Georgia Roam. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The University System of Georgia's Board of Regents approved a junior college for Atlanta's west side in June 1965. Planning with the Atlanta school board took years, and construction did not start until 1973. Atlanta Junior College opened in September 1974 as the system's 31st institution, with 504 students. Jean Childs Young, an educator and the wife of Andrew Young, was among those who helped develop it, and she later worked there as a public relations officer and advisor.
Regional accreditation followed in 1976. The late 1970s brought the college's first permanent academic buildings, a classroom building and a library, followed by a health and physical education complex in the early 1990s and a student center in 2000. The name changed to Atlanta Metropolitan College in 1988. For much of its history it was the only predominantly Black two-year public college in Georgia, and it served mostly commuters and working adults who planned to transfer.
In 2011 the Board of Regents made it a state college, which let it award bachelor's degrees. It took its current name in 2012. Bachelor's programs have since grown to include business administration, financial technology, biological science, criminal justice, film and entertainment, and elementary and special education. In 2023 Ingrid Thompson-Sellers became the college's first woman president, and in 2024 it marked its 50th anniversary.
The college has two academic schools: Arts and Sciences, and Business and Technology. It awards bachelor's degrees, associate degrees built as transfer pathways, and short certificates, and some bachelor's degrees are offered fully online through the University System's eMajor program. This is the complete list the college published in September 2026.
Yes. It started as a two-year junior college in 1974 and has awarded bachelor's degrees since becoming a state college in 2011–12. It still offers associate degrees and certificates.
No. It isn't a federally designated HBCU, which requires founding before 1964. It is a predominantly Black institution and for decades was Georgia's only predominantly Black two-year public college.
1,549 in Fall 2024, all undergraduates, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Many are working adults studying part-time or online.
Biological science, business administration (including financial technology), criminal justice, elementary and special education, film and entertainment studies, and organizational leadership in health care administration or public service.
At 1630 Metropolitan Parkway SW in southwest Atlanta, on a wooded 68-acre campus a few minutes from downtown.
No. It is a commuter college with no on-campus housing.
Sources: georgiaencyclopedia.orgatlm.eduen.wikipedia.orgajc.comnces.ed.gov
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