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 metro Atlanta.
The institution was founded by the DeKalb County Board of Education as DeKalb College in 1958 and offered its first classes in Clarkston (Clarkston, Georgia), Georgia (Georgia (U.S. state)), in 1964. It was renamed for Atlantas Perimeter highway (Interstate 285 (Georgia)) in 1997 to indicate that it no longer served only DeKalb County (DeKalb County, Georgia).
Type: Public (Public school (government funded))
Established: 1964
City: Suburban Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia)
State: Georgia (Georgia (U.S. state))
Students: 24,000
Endowment: $598 thousand
Campus: Suburban
Paper: The Collegian
Allias Name: GPC
Mascot: Jaguars
Website: www.gpc.edu
President: Anthony B. Tricoli