STATE UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA F-2

1600 Maple St.
Carrollton, GA 30118
Tel: (770)836-6500; Admissions: (770)836-6416; Fax: (770)836-6720; E-mail: admiss@westga.edu; Web Site: http://www.westga.edu/

Description: State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Part of University System of Georgia. Awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1933. Setting: 394-acre small town campus with easy access to Atlanta. Endowment: $9.5 million. Research spending 2002-03: $259,496. Educational spending 2002-03: $13,262 per student. Total enrollment: 10,255. Faculty: 477 (373 full-time, 104 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 20:1. 4,848 applied, 62% were admitted. Full-time: 6,741 students, 60% women, 40% men. Part-time: 1,304 students, 64% women, 36% men. Students come from 42 states and territories, 34 other countries, 4% from out-of-state, 0.2% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 22% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 15% 25 or older, 29% live on campus, 8% transferred in. Retention: 69% of 2003 full-time freshmen returned. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; education; psychology; social sciences and history. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, honors program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at Dalton College, State University of West Georgia/Newman Center. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army.

Entrance Requirements: Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, deferred admission. Required: high school transcript, proof of immunization, SAT I or ACT. Required for some: 2 recommendations, interview. Entrance: minimally difficult. Application deadline: 7/1. Notification: continuous until 8/1.

Costs Per Year: Application fee: $20. State resident tuition: $2212 full-time, $93 per semester hour part-time. Nonresident tuition: $8848 full-time, $369 per semester hour part-time. Mandatory fees: $562 full-time, $15.09 per semester hour part-time, $100 per term part-time. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to course load. College room and board: $4406. College room only: $2420. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility.

Collegiate Environment: Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, marching band, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 82 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities; 4% of eligible men and 13% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Black Student Alliance, Student Activities Council, Baptist Student Union, Campus Outreach, United Voices Gospel Choir. Major annual events: Homecoming, Annual Campus Awards Program, Spring Fling. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. College housing designed to accommodate 2,300 students; 2,306 undergraduates lived in college housing during 2001-02. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Options: coed, men-only, women-only housing available. Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library with 378,656 books, 1.1 million microform titles, 1,342 serials, 9,494 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2002-03: $2.6 million. 745 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment: Located in northwest Georgia, 48 miles southwest of the state capital, Atlanta, Carrollton has a mild climate with an average temperature of 63 degrees. Part-time employment is available. The benefits of this unique area include a safe, peaceful small town atmosphere, offering educational excellence in a personal environment, within 45 minutes of the cultural and social diversities of Atlanta. Private housing is available.