With more than 250,000 students enrolled each year, the region enjoys a concentration of colleges and universities matched by few U.S. metropolitan areas, landing in the top tier across more than 20 measures of higher education.
And Atlanta-area colleges and universities offer an extraordinary mix of missions and campus settings – from downtown campuses to tree-lined quads, from internationally renowned research institutions to small liberal arts colleges, from comprehensive universities to specialized schools of art, theology, technology and medicine.