Profile of the University
Georgia State University is one of the nation’s premier urban research universities. As the second largest of 35 institutions within the University System of Georgia, Georgia State enrolls about 10 percent of all students in accredited higher education in Georgia. The main campus is in downtown Atlanta; a second facility, the Alpharetta Center, provides graduate-level and continuing education courses in a north-metro suburb. The University is within an hour’s commute of almost three million citizens in the metropolitan-Atlanta area — more than one third of the state’s population. Georgia State’s economic impact locally is more than $7 million daily. And, more than 150 area businesses employ 25 or more Georgia State alumni. The University has six college-level units: the College of Arts and Sciences, the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, the College of Education, the College of Health and Human Sciences, the College of Law, and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. The colleges provide some 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study. Courses are offered from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and many programs are offered part-time as well as full-time. The total full-time instructional faculty numbered 1086 in the fall of 2007; 84 percent hold a doctorate, first-professional, or other terminal degree and 71 percent hold tenure.
Degrees Conferred
Degrees conferred during fiscal year 2007 totaled 5,948:
3,793 Bachelor’s degrees
15 Undergraduate certificates
1,661 Master’s degrees
10 Advanced certificates
170 Doctorate degrees
91 Specialists degrees
208 First professional degrees
Student Profile
- Enrollment for fall semester 2007 was 27,137.
- Forty-five percent of the students are minorities.
- Graduate students comprise 27 percent of the student body.
- Students from 159 other countries and 50 states attend the university.
- Georgians comprise 88 percent of the total enrollment.
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