About GGC

From the ground up, GGC is designed to help students succeed.

Higher education is a transformative journey of self-discovery, exploration and new experiences.

GGC combines proven student/faculty engagement practices with small class sizes, individual attention, remarkable facilities and a commitment to experiential learning and critical thinking. We’re transforming the lives of our students, their families, and through them, our communities.

Four Pillars

Scholarship

Georgia Gwinnett College produces graduates prepared for life-long, intentional learning. These graduates will continue to discover, acquire, integrate and apply knowledge in ways that enhance both their lives, and the lives of others.

Leadership

GGC inspires its graduates to model purposeful, intentional actions that enable them, and those around them, to work together in cohesive and coherent ways toward common goals. Our students lead by example, with both their hearts and their minds, while encouraging others to do the same.

Service

Georgia Gwinnett College encourages each graduate to live as engaged, contributing citizens, and to serve actively in ways that will result in positive impacts on their local, state, national and international communities.

Creativity

GGC cultivates the attributes of curiosity, intellectual versatility, imagination and critical thinking to enable graduates to embrace varied perspectives, identify key points of convergence among disparate ideas and situations, and generate creative ideas and innovative solutions.

In 1994, Gwinnett County was the largest county east of the Mississippi without a four-year college. So Gwinnett County leaders purchased 160 acres of land and designated it specifically for the development of a college campus. GGC opened its doors in 2006 as the first four-year college founded in Georgia in more than 100 years, and the first four-year, public college created in the U.S. in the 21st century. Georgia Gwinnett College is a member of the University System of Georgia.

Read more about GGC's history.

The College is located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in the heart of Gwinnett County. Gwinnett is a vibrant community 30 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta where a mixture of quiet postcard neighborhoods and bustling commercial districts blend the past with the present. Here, progress and quality of life connect so that everyone enjoys the small-town ambience with all the amenities of a big city. Businesses and residents alike enjoy safe neighborhoods, good schools, modern infrastructure and a thriving economy.

Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) will be a premier access institution recognized for student success and enduring impact that extends beyond the region.

Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) offers affordable, high-quality associate, bachelors, and selected career-advancing graduate degrees that meet the workforce and economic development needs of the growing Gwinnett County region and beyond.

Through a supportive and engaging learning environment, GGC faculty and staff empower students from all backgrounds to achieve their goals and strengthen our communities.

The authoritative source of information concerning Board approved policies and procedures governing academic and administrative matters is the Policy Manual of the Board of Regents. In cases of inconsistency, Board of Regents policy takes precedence.

The Administrative Policy Manual is Georgia Gwinnett College's primary policy manual. In the event of a conflict between the Faculty Manual, Catalog or Student Handbook and the Administrative Policy Manual, the Administrative Policy Manual prevails.

Georgia Gwinnett College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award associate and baccalaureate degrees. Georgia Gwinnett College also may offer credentials such as certificates and diplomas at approved degree levels. Questions about the accreditation of Georgia Gwinnett College may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC’s website (www.sacscoc.org).