Georgia State University is a public institution that was founded in 1913. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 24,665, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 67 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Georgia State University's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, Tier 2.

Georgia State University is a public school in downtown Atlanta where students have more than 200 majors, minors, and degree programs to choose from. First year students can opt into the university’s Freshmen Learning Communities—whether they live on campus or not—which help ease the transition to college by clustering students who share common interests in the same class sections.