The Clarkston Campus originally opened as DeKalb College in 1964 and quickly established itself as a community gem. Today, The campus is home to the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra and The Chattahoochee Review, a nationally recognized literary magazine. Clarkston Campus also serves as a cultural hub for the community around it, offering art exhibits, concerts, theatrical productions and other programs open to the public.
Clarkston is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the nation, and Clarkston Campus is among the most culturally diverse campuses in the University System of Georgia, with students from more than 140 countries. The campus is noted for its top-tier academic offerings in nursing, fine arts and sign language interpreting, in addition to strong engineering, science and math programs from which students transfer to some of the nation’s most competitive universities.
