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: 25
- Full-Time Lecturers: 4
- Number of New Faculty Hired (2009): 3
- Visiting Lecturers: 2
Degrees:
- BA Degrees Awarded (2009): 163
- MA degrees awarded (2009): 15
- Ph.D. degrees awarded (2005-09): 15
Undergraduate:
- Undergraduate Majors Enrolled (Spring 2010): 657
- New Majors Added (Fall 2009): 137
- 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 (Spring 2010): 23
- U.S. states of origin (other than Georgia) for Political Science students: 24
- Undergraduate majors with concentration in Pre-Law: 164
- Undergraduate majors with concentration in International Affairs: 101
Graduate:
- Graduate students enrolled (Spring 2010): 71
- MA students on funded assistantship (Spring 2010): 12 (13 GRAs and 7 SI leaders)
- PhD students on funded assistantship (Spring 2010): 25 (13 GTAs and 9 GRAs)
