Academics at Georgia Southwestern State University

All About Academics

Academics are the heart of the college experience. This overview pulls together the essentials of academic life at Georgia Southwestern State University: its faculty, its majors and fields of study, and its online learning options.

Use the sections below to explore each part of academic life in more detail, or follow a link to the full report on that topic:

• Faculty Resources
• Most Popular Majors
• Additional Questions to Ask
• Continue Your Research

Faculty Resources

With 18 students per faculty member, Georgia Southwestern State University is about average, as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. With 70% of instructors full time, Georgia Southwestern State University is above the national average of 47%.

For a deeper look at tenure, adjuncts and faculty composition, visit the faculty composition page.

Most Popular Majors

Georgia Southwestern State University offers 26 majors with reported completions across 15 broad fields of study.

The degree levels available at Georgia Southwestern State University are shown below:

The most popular majors at Georgia Southwestern State University, measured by graduates, are listed below.

See the full majors breakdown on the academic majors report.

Questions Worth Asking

As you weigh academic life at Georgia Southwestern State University, a few more questions are worth asking:

• Need flexibility? Check whether Georgia Southwestern State University offers the online or summer classes that fit your schedule — about 2,236 undergraduates study at least partly online. See distance learning options.
• Interested in outcomes? Look at how well Georgia Southwestern State University retains and graduates its students — 58% of full-time freshmen return). Explore graduation rates.
• Will a degree land you a job? Ask how many graduates were employed full time a year after finishing.

Explore Further into Georgia Southwestern State University

Each page below covers one part of academic life at Georgia Southwestern State University in more detail:

• Majors & Degree Programs at Georgia Southwestern State University — every major and degree program offered
• Faculty & Class Sizes at Georgia Southwestern State University — the full faculty and class-size breakdown
• Graduation & Retention at Georgia Southwestern State University — how well the school retains and graduates students
• Distance Learning at Georgia Southwestern State University — online and distance enrollment options
• Accreditation at Georgia Southwestern State University — accreditation status and accrediting bodies