ABOUT
The Department of Political Science at Georgia State University is proud of its growth and accomplishments in the last several years. New faculty members have been added to this team and more and more students are choosing Political Science as their major. Here are just a few quick facts about the department and our students:
Location: 1005 General Classroom Building
Contact: (404) 413-6159
Faculty:
- Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty: 24
- Full-Time Lecturers: 3
- Number of New Faculty Hired (2008): 5
Degrees:
- BA Degrees Awarded (2007): 163
- MA degrees awarded (2007): 12
- Ph.D. degrees awarded (2005-08): 10
Undergraduate:
- Undergraduate Majors Enrolled (Fall 2008): 687
- New Majors Added (Fall 2008): 130
- Avg. SAT score for new Freshman Political Science students (2008): 1105
- Avg. High School GPA for new Freshman Political Science students: 3.1
- Countries of origin (other than U.S.) for Political Science students: 41
- U.S. states of origin (other than Georgia) for Political Science students: 22
- Undergraduate majors with concentration in Pre-Law: 107
- Undergraduate majors with concentration in International Affairs: 53
Graduate:
- Graduate students enrolled (Fall 2007): 66
- MA students on funded assistantship (Fall 2007): 20 (13 GRAs and 7 SI leaders)
- PhD students on funded assistantship (Fall 2007): 22 (13 GTAs and 9 GRAs)
