Georgia Gwinnett College, also referred to as GGC or simply Georgia Gwinnett, is a fully accredited four-year public college located in Lawrenceville, Georgia (Gwinnett County), with an enrollment of around 6000 undergraduate students. In the spring of 2005, the Georgia General Assembly and the University System Board of Regents approved a plan to create Georgia Gwinnett College, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, which would be the first new state college created in Georgia since 1970. The plan called for Georgia Gwinnett College to be located on the former Gwinnett University Center campus, which until 2005 served as a special multi-school satellite campus in the University System of Georgia, offering classes to students from several state colleges and universities in the region. The GGC website emphasizes Georgia Gwinnett College's practical, technological, and flexible education programs: "Georgia Gwinnett College provides access to targeted baccalaureate level degrees that meet the economic development needs of the growing and diverse population of the northeast Atlanta metropolitan region.