The University of North Georgia (UNG) cut the ribbon on the $15.5 million expansion of its Cumming campus earlier this week.
The 27,300-square-foot addition ion allows UNG to add bachelor’s degrees in Cumming because the new space provides a capacity for future enrollment of 2,200 students, particularly in health care and technology-centric programs in demand along the growing Georgia 400 corridor, according to UNG officials. The bachelor’s degrees available in Cumming are elementary and special education, nursing, computer science, Bachelor of Business Administration in management, and international affairs.
UNG President Michael Shannon pointed to the vision of alumna Mary Helen McGruder and her husband, Dr. John McGruder, in originally opening the Cumming Campus.
“The expansion of this campus is an ongoing commitment to provide accessible, high-quality education to this community,” Shannon said. “Our communities, our state and our nation need people who dare boldly enough to make a difference. The expansion of the Cumming Campus marks a pivotal step forward, providing an environment that will prepare agile-minded leaders equipped to lead and tackle whatever is next.”
UNG currently has about 1,000 students at the Cumming Campus, which opened in 2012.