Life Chiropractic College
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Former names
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Life Chiropractic College |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1974 |
| Chancellor | Dr. Guy Riekeman |
| President | Dr. Robert Scott |
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Academic staff
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183 |
| Students | 2,629 |
| Undergraduates | 718 |
| Postgraduates | 1,974 |
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Marietta, Georgia, United States 33°55′57″N 84°30′52″W / 33.9325°N 84.5145°W |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 33°55′57″N 84°30′52″W / 33.9325°N 84.5145°W
Life University is a private university in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia, United States, that offers undergraduate, masters, and a doctoral degree. Besides undergraduate and graduate programs in health and wellness-oriented fields, Life University is best known for its Doctor of Chiropractic degree program. It is the largest single campus chiropractic college in the world.
The guiding philosophy of Life University is vitalism. Life University centers their philosophy, including clinical training, around the vertebral subluxation complex.
Life University was founded in 1974 by Dr. Sid E. Williams as Life Chiropractic College. The school was established on the site of a placer gold mine, next to Southern Technical Institute (formerly Southern Polytechnic State University and now Kennesaw State University - Marietta Campus). 22 students attended the first classes in January 1975.
In 1989 the name of the school was shortened to Life College, as the school recently had opened an undergraduate program and was no longer purely chiropractic. This undergraduate program allowed Life to establish an intercollegiate athletic program By 1990, the school had grown to become the largest college of chiropractic in the world. In March 2004 Dr. Guy Riekeman, former Chancellor of the Palmer Chiropractic University System, was appointed as the President of Life University. In 2017 Dr. Rob Scott took over as President of the university and Dr. Riekeman became Chancellor.
Life University is divided into two colleges: the College of Chiropractic (D.C. Doctor of Chiropractic) and the College of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies (A.S. Computer Information Management and Coaching Psychology; B.A. Positive Human Development and Social Change; B.S. Biology, Biopsychology, Psychology, Business Administration, Computer Information Management, Culinary Nutrition, Dietetics, Exercise Science, General Studies, Health Coaching and Nutrition; and M.S. Sport Health Science, Clinical Nutrition and Positive Psychology and M.A.T. Athletic Training).
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