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Georgia State University, an enterprising public research university in the heart of Atlanta, is a national leader in graduating students from diverse Schools and Colleges backgrounds. The university provides its world-class faculty and more School than 32,000 students with unsurpassed connections to the opportunities of Policy Studies available in one of the 21st century’s great global cities. Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions Academics State offers a challenging academic environment that emphasizes College of Arts and Sciences research and practical experience across the curriculum. College of Education • 100 fields of study with 250 degree programs • Atlanta-Based Learning program that weaves the city into the classroom College of Law • Nationally recognized Freshman Learning Communities Honors College • Internship and service opportunities in and around Atlanta J. Mack Robinson Student Body Rankings College of Business The student body of more than 32,000 Georgia State has more than 50 School of Public Health demonstrates that students from all nationally and internationally ranked backgrounds can achieve at high rates. programs, including these: Connections with Atlanta • 75% undergraduate students; • Best Value Law School 25% graduate students • City Management and Urban Atlanta is integral to Georgia State’s • Students from every county in Policy educational experience. Students Georgia, every state in the nation • Computer Information Systems and faculty are a part of a living laboratory where they study and and more than 150 countries • Health Law create solutions for the challenges

• One of the 15 most diverse • Hospitality of the 21st century. universities in the nation • Nonprofit Management • #1 in Georgia in undergraduate • Part-time Law • Students have interned at Fortune and graduate degrees conferred • Part-time MBA 500 companies, national non- to students of color • Public Finance and Budgeting profits, government agencies and federal and state courts. • More than 1,600 international • Real Estate students • Risk Management and Insurance • More Georgia executives hold • Asian = 13%; Black = 37%; advanced degrees from Robinson Hispanic = 8%*; Multiracial = 4%; College of Business than from any Other/Not Reported = 6%; school in the Southeast. White = 40% • Georgia State reaches into the community through programs Faculty and Staff as diverse as the Health Law Atlanta’s quality of life helps Georgia State attract quality faculty, staff and Partnership Clinic, the BioBus, administrators. a mobile laboratory for K-12 • More than 4,700 faculty and staff • Student/faculty ratio: 21/1 students, the Rialto Center for Arts performances, the Partner- ship for Urban Health Research and the Confucius Institute, a one-of-a-kind resource for the business community in metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia.

* Because ethnicity is reported separately from race, the sum of the percentages exceeds 100%. Local/Global Footprint Research Responding to the demands of a Georgia State gained research university status in 1996 and has put research growing student body, an academically front and center to produce transformative discoveries across a broad adventurous faculty and a research- spectrum of fields. oriented curriculum, Georgia State is • $150 million science center opened in 2010 expanding in Atlanta and beyond. • Specialized research centers focused on health care and quality of life issues, • 58 buildings in downtown campus including Inflammation, Immunity and Infection; Diagnostics and Therapeutics; • Educational centers in Alpharetta, Behavioral Neuroscience; and Viral Immunology and Peachtree- • Sponsored awards for grants and contracts of $71.2 million in 2013 Dunwoody • Academic programs on five continents • 56 faculty-led study abroad Arts and Culture programs in 27 countries With its quality arts programs and location in , Georgia State • 18 exchange programs in adds to, and benefits from, the city’s vibrant cultural community. 10 countries • Students and faculty of the School of Music have won four Grammy awards. • Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art has been ranked among the top 10 literary magazines in the country (Every Writer’s Resource). Economic Impact • David Bottoms, former Poet Laureate of Georgia, is a professor in the Georgia State contributes to the Creative Writing Program. economies of Atlanta and the South. • The Digital Arts and Entertainment Laboratory is a modern facility for • Economic impact of $1.4 billion producing digital media content. annually • The Rialto Center for the Arts has been named the best world music venue • More than $614 million in total in Atlanta (Creative Loafing and Essence Magazine). annual revenue

Campus Life Athletics Georgia State is where city life meets campus life. The Athletics program at Georgia • Five residence halls housing more than 4,100 students State is a source of school spirit and • More than 300 student organizations, including 24 fraternities and sororities pride for the university. • Six campus dining locations • 16 NCAA Division I teams com- • State-of-the-art Student Recreation Center peting in the • 19 intramural sports and 25 sports clubs • Football team that plays in the and participates in the Football Bowl Subdivision Alumni • Student-athletes who have Georgia State alumni, numbering more than 180,000 worldwide, include leaders maintained a cumulative GPA of in almost every field. More than 75 percent live in Georgia. 3.0 or higher for five years • Nickname: Panthers • Mascot name: www.gsu.edu • Colors: Blue and White

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