Happy 50th Birthday To Georgia Highlands College!

Press release from the City of Douglasville:

Post Date:09/21/2020 6:45 AM

In the Fall of 1970, Floyd Junior College opened it's first location in Rome, GA with 19 faculty members teaching 545 students.

50 years later, in the Fall of 2020, Georgia Highlands College holds the second highest enrollment among state colleges in Georgia with more than 300 full-time and part-time faculty teaching thousands of students across Northwest Georgia including their Douglasville campus.

Georgia Highlands College continues to grow and build upon its mission to provide a quality of excellence in all its programs and pathways while expanding course offerings and degree offerings to ensure students in our community have access to rapidly growing fields and careers in our area at a low cost that allows them to graduate with little to no debt after completion.

Mayor Rochelle Robinson has proclaimed the 2020-21 academic year to be a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Georgia Highlands College in the City of Douglasville.

Congratulations to the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and retirees of the past and future at Georgia Highlands College.

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