Middle Georgia College

Institution Overview

Middle Georgia College is a four-year, residential college located almost exactly at the center of the state of Georgia. The College is dedicated to providing a dynamic, learning-centered, caring and technically advanced environment of excellence. As a multi-campus, residential institution, the College pursues innovative opportunities to provide services to its traditional and non-traditional students primarily from rural areas of south central Georgia and will maintain a recognized legacy of affordable higher education and community support services of the highest quality. The College also serves as the only higher education institution of aviation for the State of Georgia.

The College’s historic main campus in Cochran offers academic programs of study through the baccalaureate degree for commuting and residential students. The Institution’s Georgia Aviation campus in Eastman provides aviation specific technical education for the State while supporting the main campus’ Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management degree program. The Dublin Center provides educational opportunities for central Georgia commuting students. Selected certificate and associate degree programs, as well as additional advanced higher education opportunities, are offered online and in collaboration with participating four-year institutions. In addition, MGC provides undergraduate education addressing the economic development needs of Georgia’s heartland and the state’s aviation industry.

• More than 3,400 students attend Middle Georgia College. They come primarily from Georgia but 2 percent are from 18 states and 9 countries. Middle Georgia College boasts a diverse student body with 38 percent minority enrollment. The average student age is 23 and there are slightly more women enrolled than men.

• The college offers some 50 associate degree programs designed for transfer to any one of the university system’s four-year institutions. Concentrations are offered in education, economics, business education, arts and humanities, pre-law, business administration, engineering and engineering technology, natural sciences, nursing, and occupational therapy. The college awards the associate of arts, associate of science and associate of applied science degrees.

• Middle Georgia College collaborates with Georgia Southwestern State University via the Cochran Campus to extend selective programs through the bachelor’s degrees, and collaborates with Georgia Southern University via the University System’s Dublin Campus to extend selective programs including associate through master’s degrees.

• MGC had an economic impact of more than $84 million during FY 2010.