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Community colleges in Georgia

There are 14 two-year, predominantly associate-degree-granting community colleges in Georgia reporting to the U.S. Department of Education. Median published in-state tuition across the state is $8,112 per academic year — among the most affordable postsecondary options anywhere in the country.

This page is a working directory: every institution links to a full profile with cost, enrollment, completion, and transfer numbers. The lists below highlight the most affordable, the largest, and the most transfer-active campuses in Georgia, drawn from the same Department of Education data four-year admissions offices use to evaluate incoming transfer applicants. If you are weighing a community-college start before continuing to a four-year program, the transfer rate column is the single most useful comparison.

Most affordable in-state tuition in Georgia

  1. East Georgia State CollegeSwainsboro$2,900
  2. Georgia State University-Perimeter CollegeAtlanta$3,104
  3. Georgia Highlands CollegeRome$3,120
  4. Atlanta Metropolitan State CollegeAtlanta$3,248
  5. South Georgia State CollegeDouglas$3,314

Full Georgia cost ranking → Tuition reference →

Largest community colleges in Georgia

  1. Georgia State University-Perimeter CollegeAtlanta13,693
  2. Georgia Highlands CollegeRome4,761
  3. Georgia Military CollegeMilledgeville3,992
  4. Gordon State CollegeBarnesville2,544
  5. Point UniversityWest Point1,996

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Strongest transfer outcomes

Share of full-time entrants who transferred to another institution within 150% of program length.

  1. Gupton Jones College of Funeral ServiceDecatur25%
  2. Georgia State University-Perimeter CollegeAtlanta21%

Georgia transfer guide →

All 14 community colleges in Georgia

InstitutionCityEnrollmentIn-state tuition
Andrew CollegeCuthbert473$19,604
Atlanta Metropolitan State CollegeAtlanta1,228$3,248
College of AthensWatkinsville44$9,050
East Georgia State CollegeSwainsboro1,413$2,900
Emory University-Oxford CollegeOxford967$64,280
Georgia Highlands CollegeRome4,761$3,120
Georgia Military CollegeMilledgeville3,992$8,112
Georgia State University-Perimeter CollegeAtlanta13,693$3,104
Gordon State CollegeBarnesville2,544$3,628
Gupton Jones College of Funeral ServiceDecatur338$20,950
Interactive College of Technology-MorrowMorrow117$11,210
Lincoln College of Technology-East PointEast Point627—
Point UniversityWest Point1,996$24,000
South Georgia State CollegeDouglas1,466$3,314

About community college in Georgia

Georgia's 14 community colleges serve as the primary on-ramp into postsecondary education for hundreds of thousands of residents each year. They award associate degrees, occupational certificates, and — through articulation agreements with public and private four-year institutions — transferable general-education credit. For most students, the financial argument is decisive: published in-state tuition averages a small fraction of state-flagship sticker price, and many community-college students qualify for the full federal Pell Grant, eliminating tuition entirely.

If you intend to transfer, the most important question to ask any Georgia community college is which four-year institutions accept its credit on a course-for-course basis. The state's strongest transfer pipelines tend to feed regional public universities, but well-prepared students from accredited community colleges in Georgia routinely transfer into selective private institutions as well. Use the transfer-rate column above as a starting filter, then consult the receiving university's transfer admissions office to confirm specific course equivalencies.

Career-focused students should pay attention to the local labor market as much as to the institution. Georgia's community colleges concentrate heavily in health-care occupations, mechanical and engineering technology, business administration, and skilled-trades programs aligned to regional employers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' state-level wage data is the right reference for setting expectations on starting salary by field. Where this site reports earnings, the figure is median earnings ten years after first enrollment, drawn from the College Scorecard's match against federal tax records.