List of colleges and universities in metropolitan Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia is home to the largest concentration of colleges and universities in the Southern United States. Two of the most important public universities in Georgia, Georgia Tech and Georgia State, have their campuses downtown. A campus of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, that focuses on EMBAs, can also be found in the city.

Emory University is the highest ranked university in the metropolitan area.

The most prestigious HBCUs, (Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and Morehouse College) are also found in Atlanta. The educational landscape in Atlanta is rounded out by the smaller liberal arts colleges of Agnes Scott College and Oglethorpe University.

Founded in 1938, the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education (ARCHE) is a nonprofit organization of 18 public and private colleges and universities. Students are able to register for courses across member-institutions and have access to six affliated libraries.^[1]

This is a list of all of the colleges and universities in the city of Atlanta and Metro Atlanta.