Athens Technical College ("Athens Tech") is a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) in

Athens, Georgia Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. Downtown Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an Research I university, ...

. It was founded in 1958 as Athens Area Vocational-Technical School. The school was renamed Athens Area Technical Institute in 1987 and took its current name in 2000. It offers certificates,

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s, and

associate degree An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of academic qualification above a high school diploma and below a bachelor's degree ...

s in business, health, technical, and manufacturing-related fields. The school's administrative offices and main campus are located in

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, with satellite campuses located in Elberton, and

Monroe, Georgia Monroe is a city and the county seat of Walton County, Georgia, Walton County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. It is located both one hour east of Atlanta via U.S. Route 78 in Georgia, US 78 and Georgia State Route 138, GA 138 to I ...

. A campus in Greensboro was closed in 2023. In addition, the school also has several educational centers in the school's surrounding ten-county service area.

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Athens Technical College website
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