City: Savannah, GA

Category: Education

Telephone: (912) 927-5277, (800) 633-2349

Address: 11935 Abercorn St.

Description: Armstrong Atlantic provides more than 75 academic programs through its College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, College of Health Professions, School of Computing, and School of Graduate Studies. The university’s teacher education program has gained state and national recognition, and its economics, computer science, and chemistry programs are also particularly strong. The College of Health Professions is the regional health-professions education center for southeast Georgia. Among master’s degrees are those offered in history, criminal justice, liberal and professional studies, nursing, education, public health, sports medicine, and physical therapy. Armstrong has an abundance of evening and weekend classes. More than 7,000 students, including 810 graduate students, attend the school. They are taught by almost 500 professors. The great majority of students are commuters. The school is situated in the Southside on 268 acres in an arboretum setting. The school fields NCAA Division II teams in men’s basketball, baseball, tennis, and golf and in women’s basketball, fast-pitch softball, volleyball, soccer, golf, and tennis (the 2005 team won the national championship). Armstrong hosts more than 200 cultural events each year, including a faculty lecture series, concerts, and dramatic presentations, all of them open to the public and most of them free.