Higher Education

Colleges & Universities

Augusta University

Located in the historic city for which it is named and on regional campuses across the state, Augusta University is Georgia’s flagship health sciences and medical research university, home of the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center, and one of the country’s top universities for improving students’ earning potential and economic outcomes.

The university’s multi-disciplinary research infrastructure and corporate, community and government partnerships propel frontier-expanding discovery and real-world solutions that address critical health, security, economic and societal concerns to advance and enrich the human experience.

Paine College

Paine College, which also holds firm footing on the landscape of Augusta’s history and future, co-exists with AU to validate Augusta’s status as a true college town. Established in 1882 by the United Methodist Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church to train African-American teachers and clergy, Paine College today offers a private undergraduate liberal arts education to a diversifying student population. The 57-acre campus hosts close to 900 students seeking degrees in business administration, humanities, social sciences, education, natural sciences and mathematics.

Augusta Technical College

With an enrollment of about 6,000 students, Augusta Technical College has the distinction of being the only technical school in Georgia to win the U.S. Secretary of Education’s Award of Excellence. Augusta Technical College has been named a Silver-level Military Friendly® School Award recipient in the category of Community Colleges for 2017. Augusta Tech offers a FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Technology Program, as well as a Nuclear Engineering Technology Program, partnering with Southern Company, Georgia Power, Plant Vogtle and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions to train and place graduates. They received a $54 million dollar software grant from Siemens for the Virtual Simulation Process Control Flow Loop lab for engineering technology. Recently, Augusta Tech introduced the following new programs: Agribusiness, Physical Therapy Assistant, and Sonography.

Private Colleges

Other opportunities for higher education abound in the Augusta area.  Several private colleges with extensive campuses provide courses of study designed for traditional and non-traditional students. University of Maryland Global Campus, Georgia Military College, Webster University, Miller-Motte Technical College, and Troy University meet the ever increasing demand for higher education. Commuting to the University of Georgia in Athens takes about one-and-a-half hours and Georgia Southern, in Statesboro, is about a two-hour drive. Attending classes at the University of South Carolina in Aiken or Columbia is easily managed with only an hour’s drive from Augusta.