The university recruits from all fifty states as well as every major metropolitan area and county in the state of Georgia. This college's new home, Frank Brown Hall, mixes new construction with rehabilitating the 1931 Mediterranean-revival building (the previous location of the Ledger-Enquirer newspaper) along with new construction. In 2016 the College of Education and Health Professions relocated downtown. CSU also houses over 400 students in several halls of residence in downtown Columbus along with dining, campus bookstore, and regular bus service to the main campus. The university continues to expand the RiverPark campus by acquiring new real estate in the area. The Department of Communication is located in the Carpenter's Building and the Department of History and Geography is located in the Yancy Center and Dillingham Building. The Schwob School of Music is contained in the state of the art RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, while the art and theater departments reside in the Corn Center for the Visual Arts, the Yancey Center, and the Rankin Arts Center. The downtown campus is housed in a mix of rehabilitated 19th and early 20th century industrial and commercial buildings and newly constructed facilities. RiverPark campus ĬSU's RiverPark campus, located near the banks of the Chattahoochee River, is the home of the university's fine and performing arts, communications, and history and geography departments. As of 2005 classes are held at the Howard Building. The Japanese Saturday School of Columbus – Georgia (コロンバス（GA）補習授業校 Koronbasu (GA) Hoshū Jugyō Kō) has its office in the Howard Building at the university, and it conducts its classes at the university. Center which is home to the athletic department.

Abbott Turner College of Business, and the Frank G. Notable buildings include the Simon Schwob Memorial Library, the Center for Commerce and Technology, the D. This campus houses the majority of the university's academic and athletic departments. A satellite campus is also located on Fort Moore, Georgia at the southern edge of the city.ĬSU's main campus is located in suburban Columbus at the intersection of Interstate 185 and GA-85. Whitley Clock Tower on main campusĬolumbus State University's 132-acre main campus is located in suburban and downtown, Columbus. In August 2008, Tim Mescon became president, and in 2015 Chris Markwood became president.Ĭampus The T.Y. Prior to holding this office, he was Vice President for Business Affairs. įrank Brown was President of Columbus State University from 1988-2008. The Schwob School of Music is housed in the adjacent RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. The complex was designed to provide students of the fine arts with a tightly-knit living community and larger studios, laboratories, and galleries. In early 2007, the art and theatre departments moved to the university's newly built RiverPark Campus in downtown Columbus. As of the 2010 academic year, the university enrolled more than 8,200 students. The school now offers undergraduate and graduate programs in more than ninety academic disciplines. In 1996 the school was renamed Columbus State University as part of a program to restructure four-year institutions within the state's university system. The first four-year class graduated in 1970. The school was granted four-year status in 1965 with offerings of bachelor's and master's degrees. The college was staffed by fifteen faculty and staff and almost three hundred students attended courses in the first year.Ĭolumbus College relocated to the midtown area in 1963, building a campus defined by modern architecture on what was previously a dairy farm. The university was first called Columbus College when it opened as a junior college in a hosiery mill in 1958. Founded as Columbus College in 1958, the university was established and is administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Columbus State University is a public university in Columbus, Georgia.

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