Georgia State University Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! =====Consolidation with Georgia Perimeter College===== On January 5, 2015, news broke that Georgia State and [[Georgia Perimeter College]] would merge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gpb.org/news/2015/01/05/georgia-perimeter-georgia-state-possibly-merging |title=Georgia Perimeter, Georgia State Possibly Merging |author=Tanya Ott |publisher=GPB News |date=January 5, 2015 |access-date=January 6, 2015}}</ref> Over a year later, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College, a 2-year college with five campuses. The board also announced that the president of Georgia State would remain the president of the combined university, which retained the name Georgia State University.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.covnews.com/section/1/article/57581/ |title=Merger of GPC, GSU approved |newspaper=Covington News |date=January 6, 2015 |access-date=January 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106184243/http://www.covnews.com/section/1/article/57581/ |archive-date=January 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The merger created the largest university in the state of Georgia at about 52,000 students.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.gsu.edu/2016/01/06/welcome-panther-family-perimeter-college/|title=Welcome to the Panther Family|website=GSU.edu|publisher=Georgia State University|access-date=January 6, 2016}}</ref> Since Georgia State's consolidation with Georgia Perimeter College in 2016, graduation rates at Perimeter College have almost tripled.<ref>{{cite web |title=Georgia State Sets A Record For Overall Enrollment, Most Qualified Freshman Class In University History |url=https://news.gsu.edu/2019/08/22/georgia-state-sets-record-overall-enrollment/ |website=Georgia State News Hub |date=August 22, 2019 |publisher=Georgia State |access-date=4 March 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page