Program Settings
Georgia State University, located near the State Capital in the heart of Metropolitan Atlanta, has six academic divisions and enrolls approximately 25,000 students, including approximately 7,000 graduate students. Georgia State attracts students from all fifty states and over one hundred countries around the world. Since its inception in 1913 Georgia State has maintained a commuter campus. Since the 1996 Olympics, however, residential housing has been available for 2000 students. Fall 2002 Georgia State University opened its new lofts, housing on campus for married, graduate students and upper classmen.
The university’s overarching goal is to propel Georgia State to a front-rank position among the nation’s premier state-supported universities located in an urban setting. Maintaining and developing competitive instructional and research programs and by devoting major attention to campus programming and services is recognized as vital to the realization of this mission. Fostering a university-wide wellness climate is expected to support productivity, creativity, and satisfaction among students, faculty, and staff.
The University Counseling Center is housed in a stand-alone building on the main Georgia State University campus. The facility includes a comfortable waiting room, individual therapist offices with computers, three group counseling rooms which double as conference rooms, audio-video equipment, testing offices, and learning assistance offices. The Center also houses a business manager, two receptionists, and other office personnel. Fellows typically occupy offices on the 4th floor with the other Clinical faculty.
Atlanta is a beautiful, cosmopolitan city at the foot of the Appalachian Mountain chain. Georgia State University is located very near to the Underground Shopping Area, Grady Hospital and the State Capitol Building as well as a variety of different restaurants, shopping and hotels. The greater Atlanta area is noted for such attractions as its several lakes, the North Georgia Mountains, white water, the Chatahoochee River, and affordable housing.
