Georgia State University

Georgia State University is a public research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. It began in 1913 as the Evening School of Commerce of the Georgia Institute of Technology and later became an independent university. It is an urban institution, with the main campus in downtown Atlanta and additional instruction through Perimeter College campuses in the metropolitan area.

Colleges include Arts and Sciences, the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the School of Public Health, the College of Law, education, nursing and health professions, and the Institute for Biomedical Sciences. Graduate work is identified with public policy, public health, neuroscience, economics, and condensed-matter physics.

Enrollment is about 50,000 students when Perimeter College is counted, with a substantial graduate population in doctoral and professional programs. The student body is among the more racially and economically diverse in U.S. public research universities. Alumni include former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, musician Chris Bridges, and banker Kenneth D. Lewis.

Graduate awards include the MA, MS, MBA, MPA, JD, and PhD. The calendar is the U.S. semester system. Doctoral students are often funded through assistantships. The downtown campus is built among city office towers, with MARTA rail access; many graduate students commute from across Atlanta.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Georgia State University lists 6 graduate programs across 6 subjects: 1 master's program and 5 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in chemistry, computer science and finance & financial economics.