page_title: Georgia State University
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Georgia State University / Organization
caption_attribution_description: English: The new Georgia State University College of Law building located at 85 Park Place in downtown Atlanta. English: The new Georgia State University College of Law building located at 85 Park Place in downtown Atlanta. English: The new Georgia State University College of Law building located at 85 Park Place in downtown Atlanta.
context_page_description: Georgia State University is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is also the largest institution of higher education by enrollment based in Georgia and is in the top 10 in the nation in number of students with a diverse majority-minority student population of around 53,000 students, including approximately 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students at the main campus downtown as of 2018.
  Georgia State is classified as R1, for "very high research activity". The university's over $200 million in research expenditures for the 2018 fiscal year ranked 1st in the nation among universities without an engineering, medical, or agricultural school for the third year in a row. The university is the most comprehensive public institution in Georgia, offering more than 250 degree programs in over 100 fields of study spread across 10 academic colleges and schools.
context_section_description: The President of Georgia State University (currently Mark P. Becker) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents.
  The university is composed of 11 colleges (although those divisions use "college", "school", or "institute", those titles do not indicate any distinction between them):
caption: GSU College of Law
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