History of Troy University
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Troy University’s Atlanta Site opened in 1995 at the Atlanta Federal Building in downtown. The permanent staff at that time consisted of a single director/full-time faculty member who used a milk crate for a file cabinet. The site at that time offered Master’s degrees in Human Resources and in Public Administration, but soon added a Bachelor of Science degree in Resource Management (now called Resource Technology and Management). Classes were originally offered to Federal employees only, but by 1998 the Atlanta Site had opened a second downtown location at 41 Marietta Street and was offering classes to the general population. Both downtown locations had two classrooms apiece.
In 1999, TROY’s Atlanta Site moved to 600 Embassy Row in the northern Atlanta neighborhood of Dunwoody. The new facilities included four classrooms and a computer lab. The graduate programs at that time were expanded to four.
Troy University’s Atlanta Site moved to its present location at 1117 Perimeter Center West in Dunwoody in 2004. Today the site boasts a director, 10 full-time staff members and 10 full-time faculty, as well as several adjunct faculty members. The facilities include six classrooms and a computer lab, with a 2008 expansion slated to add two more classrooms along with extra office and lab space.
The Troy Atlanta Site has a diverse student body made up mostly of adult learners balancing family, career and education in their lives. There are currently 547 in-house enrollments at Troy’s Atlanta Site (including students who are completing their Masters in several cohorts away from the site), not including the Distance Learning enrollments.
The Atlanta Site currently offers six graduate and three undergraduate degrees. In 2007, Troy’s Atlanta Site added two new programs, English as a second language (ESL) and polygraph certification, which offer the site’s first daytime classes. The English Language Center teaches English to speakers of other languages. Its students include local English learners, as well as students recruited from overseas. The site is the first domestic TROY site in University College to host international students recruited directly from overseas in its ESL and selected Master’s programs. The Polygraph Center is one of only two polygraph certification courses offered at a public institution in the United States. Its students include police officers and intelligence agency members from around the world.
