Class Admissions & Registration

Admissions

Augusta School of Massage, Inc. will enroll a maximum of 25 students per class. When each massage class is full, registration ends and prospective massage therapy students will be referred to the next start date. Please be sure to contact us to begin your admission process as soon as possible to ensure you have a place in the next massage class.

Admissions Requirements

The following items are due before class starts:

• High School Diploma, Completed High School Transcript or GED.
• Copy of Driver’s license or Birth certificate verifying student is at least 18 years old.
• Student Health Affidavit to certify that the student is in good health and physically able to both perform and receive massage therapy.
• Current Photo
• $25 Application Fee
• Signed Enrollment Agreement

Late registration is considered on a case-by-case basis and results in $100 late fee, plus requirement to make up any and all missed work. No late enrollment will be accepted past the second missed week of class. Students who are physically challenged through vision or hearing impairments or other physical disabilities, and students with learning disabilities must be responsible for providing their own assistants or tutors needed to complete the massage therapy program. A potential student is not eligible for registration if he or she has been convicted of, entered a plea of nolo contender or guilty to, or received deferred adjudication to crimes of offense involving prostitution or sexual offenses, or if convicted of a violation of the Act within the past five years.

Augusta School of Massage, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, nationality, age, disability, and sexual orientation.

Admissions Procedures

To apply for admission, applicants should contact an admissions representative at the school to schedule an appointment for a personal interview and tour of the school facilities. At this time, applicants will complete the application for enrollment. Also at this time, applicants must provide a copy of a high school diploma or transcript, or a copy of their GED certificate, and a copy of their driver’s license or birth certificate, along with a $25 application fee. School officials will review the application for enrollment and notify the applicant as to the status of his/her admission to the school in writing.

Previous Education and Training

Augusta School of Massage accepts up to 150 transfer hours from a Georgia Massage Therapy Board recognized massage therapy education program only at the discretion of the Executive Director. A transcript with the hours must be submitted. The Executive Director may at her discretion require practical and theorized demonstration prior to acceptance of hours. The name of the original program and the clock hours accepted from that program will be identified on the student’s transcript from Augusta School of Massage. The school will average the grades earned at the original program with grades earned at ASM. The hours earned at the previous program will be accepted as actual and scheduled hours. Once accepted at ASM the student must meet the defined satisfactory academic progress requirements. Exceptions could be made and more hours awarded under certain special circumstances to be approved by the Director/Instructor. Some of these would be: already licensed in another state or excessive number of hours. In case of withdrawal and subsequent re-enrollment at the institution, the student shall be considered at the same satisfactory progress checkpoint upon re-enrollment as time of withdrawal, within a reasonable time frame.