Students

Columbus State University serves a wide variety of students, from the traditional recent high school graduates, to adults with one career behind them and another to be discovered with additional education.

Almost 1,000 students live in campus housing and a growing number are from the Atlanta area.

Our students are pursuing two-year, four-year and graduate and specialist degrees, as well as taking courses through the Division of Continuing and Regional Education Services. We have students in the military and students from more than 50 countries around the world.

Fall 2004 enrollment was another record year, hitting 7,224. There were more than 2,300 freshmen, 1,200 seniors and 900 graduate students.

The ratio of men-to-women at CSU is following a nationwide trend and slowly becoming more and more skewed. This year, about 62 percent of the student body is female.

Almost 30 percent of the students in the fall 2004 class identified themselves as African-American; three percent, Hispanic (the largest increase, percentage-wise, over last year); and 60 percent, white.

About 34 percent of students were under 21, while 65 percent of students were under 26 years old. About 11 percent of students were 41 years old or older.

Less than half of the students were from Muscogee County, while 92 students came from foreign countries, 445 students were from Alabama and 462 come from other states. At least 600 students enrolled from the Atlanta area home, given that 598 students were from Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and Gwinnett counties alone.