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Profile of the UniversityGeorgia 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 four-year public higher education students 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 more than five million (5,376,285) citizens in the metropolitan-Atlanta area — more than half 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 1120 in the fall of 2008; 84 percent hold a doctorate, first-professional, or other terminal degree and 44 percent hold tenure. Degrees ConferredDegrees conferred fiscal year 2008: 5,786
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