VOL. 9, NO. 2 - 9/23/08

Georgia State hits enrollment milestones

Campus boasts the largest freshman class and student body in history

Anyone who has crossed the Library Plaza recently probably could guess that this fall Georgia State University reached a new level of enrollment.

The university is currently boasting its largest freshman class in history with 2,753 first-time, first-year students. The overall student body is also the biggest it has ever been, with 28,175 graduate and undergraduate students, surpassing the previous record of 28,079 in 2003.

On top of that, students are taking more classes for a total of 338,403 credit hours, another record breaker.

Final enrollment figures won’t be tallied until later this fall, but officials are pleased with the preliminary results.

“We’ve increased the size of our freshman class, but we’re getting better students than we had 10 to 15 years ago and we’ve managed to keep the diversity,” said Tim Renick, associate vice provost of academic affair. View PDF to continue story

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