Valdosta State University
This comprehensive university includes students from all fifty states as well as sixty-seven countries. The Student Success Center and VSU Freshman Year Experience help in the college transition. The VSU Honors College offers additional academic challenge and opportunity to students of high scholastic promise. Located at the midpoint between Atlanta and Orlando and between the two coasts, the Valdosta metropolitan area serves as the economic hub of south-central Georgia.
Founded 1906
Undergraduate enrollment 9,718
Graduate enrollment 2,167
Public
In-state tuition $1,990/semester
Out-of-state tuition $7,022/semester
Georgia freshmen on HOPE 59%
Average composite three-part SAT score for entering freshmen 1512
Average critical reading and math composite SAT score 1017
SAT score breakdown 515, critical reading; 502, math; 495, writing
Average class size for freshman courses 23
Popular majors American Sign Language, anthropology, biology, business, chemistry, criminal justice, early childhood education, exercise physiology, fine arts, mass media, middle grades education, nursing, psychology, sociology