Georgia State University officials said Wednesday its campuses are continuing to grow at record levels.
Its Perimeter College campuses enrolled 7,245 new students, a 23 percent increase. This includes the largest dual-enrollment class in Perimeter’s history, with 1,640 students enrolled, the university said.
More than 3,900 freshmen enrolled at the university’s Atlanta campus, a 5 percent increase in first-year students compared to the fall semester of 2016, GSU said.
Georgia State also reported significant increases in the racial diversity of its student body. Hispanic student enrollment was up more than 14 percent from the prior academic year, the university said.
Georgia State has about 52,000 students, the largest enrollment of any university in the state. GSU’s merger with Georgia Perimeter College in 2016 added about 21,000 students to its enrollment.
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