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Georgia Perimeter College
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| Established | 1964 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Anthony B. Tricoli |
| Students: | 21,473[1] |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Campus: | Suburban |
| Nickname: | GPC |
| Mascot: | Jaguars |
| Website: | www.gpc.edu |
Georgia Perimeter College is a two-year Associate degree granting unit of the University System of Georgia. GPC has multiple campus locations on the north and east side of Atlanta.
The instutution was founded by the Dekalb County Board of Education as Dekalb College in 1958 and offered its first classes in Clarkston, Georgia in 1964. It was renamed in 1997 to indicate that it no longer served only Dekalb County.
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Georgia Perimeter College is the largest two-year college and the third largest institution in the University System of Georgia. Its Spring 2004 enrollment was 20,266.
October 1st, 2006, Anthony B. Tricoli assumed his position as President of GPC.
The original campus (also formerly known as the "central" campus) is located in unincorporated DeKalb County, south of the city of Clarkston.
Branch campuses are located in:
- Unincorporated DeKalb County (Two locations)
- City of Alpharetta: Alpharetta Center at GSU
- City of Lawrenceville: Lawrenceville Campus
Ground was recently broken for a new campus in unincorporated Newton County, east of the city of Covington, scheduled to open in January 2007.
In addition, distance learning courses via the Internet and videotaped course-ware are also available.
The Lawrenceville campus at the Gwinnett University Center is expected to close in May 2008 when the Center becomes Georgia Gwinnett College.
123 nations are represented at the Clarkston Campus.
As of Spring semester 2007, GPC enrollment is approximately 21,000 students.
- Ron Blomberg, baseball player and manager
- Canibus aka Germaine Williams
- Mark David Chapman
- Valentino Achek Deng, the subject of Dave Eggers' novel, What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
- Rozonda Thomas
- Song Wei Tan, rising star - pianist
- Official Georgia Perimeter College website
- Dekalb Briefs: College breaks ground for Covington campus
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| Research Universities | Georgia Tech • Georgia State • Medical College of Georgia • University of Georgia |
| Regional Universities | Georgia Southern • Valdosta State |
| State Universities | Albany State • Armstrong Atlantic State • Augusta State • Clayton State • Columbus State • Ft. Valley State • GCSU • Georgia Southwestern State • Kennesaw State • North Georgia State • Savannah State • Southern Polytechnic State • West Georgia |
| State Colleges | Dalton State • Gainesville State • Georgia Gwinnett College • Macon State • Middle Georgia State |
| Agricultural Colleges | Abraham Baldwin |
| Two-year Colleges | Atlanta Metro • Bainbridge • Coastal Georgia • Darton • East Georgia • Georgia Highlands • Georgia Perimeter • Gordon • South Georgia • Waycross |
| Independent research unit | Skidaway Institute of Oceanography |
| Governing body | Georgia Board of Regents |