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Georgia State University was founded in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce, a night program for working students. It became Georgia State College in 1961 and adopted its current name, Georgia State University, in 1969.
Georgia State University enrolls 53,144 students across all of its campuses, including 45,065 undergraduates and 8,079 graduate students. That makes it the largest in-person institution of higher education based in Georgia.
Georgia State University converted the former Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves, into its football stadium after acquiring it on the 5th of January 2017. The site's planned new baseball field incorporates the outfield wall where Hank Aaron hit his record-breaking 715th home run.
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved the merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College in 2016, after news of the planned merger broke on the 5th of January 2015. The merger created the largest university in the state of Georgia, with about 52,000 students, and graduation rates at Perimeter College have almost tripled since consolidation.
Georgia State University is currently the only university in the United States operating a lab at biosafety level 4, the highest level that exists. Researchers there study dangerous pathogens including herpes B virus, hantavirus, and Ebola.
Annette Lucille Hall, a social studies teacher from Lithonia, became the first African-American student enrolled at Georgia State University in 1962. She enrolled in the Institute on Americanism and Communism, a course required for Georgia social studies teachers, a year after the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech integrated.