Overview
Albany State University (ASU), a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and proud member institution of the 性视界APP, elevates its community and region by offering a broad array of graduate, baccalaureate, associate, and certificate programs at its main campuses in Albany as well as at strategically-placed branch sites and online. Committed to excellence in teaching and learning, the University prepares students to be effective contributors to a globally diverse society, where knowledge and technology create opportunities for personal and professional success. ASU respects and builds on the historical roots of its institutional predecessors with its commitment to access and a strong liberal arts heritage that respects diversity in all its forms and gives all students the foundation they need to succeed. Through creative scholarship, research, and public service, the University鈥檚 faculty, staff, students, and administrators form strategic alliances internally and externally to promote community and economic development, resulting in an improved quality of life for the citizens of southwest Georgia and beyond.
As part of its commitment to teaching and learning, ASU promotes economic development in Albany and throughout southwest Georgia by engaging in applied research, aligning resources in support of identified needs, developing and enhancing academic programs to meet evolving needs, forming broad strategic partnerships, supplying a trained workforce, and fostering a sense of entrepreneurship.
Both traditional and non-traditional students make up the more than 5,700 students who attend Albany State. They come primarily from southwest and middle Georgia, Atlanta, other states in the U.S., and several foreign countries.
Albany State offers more than 40 undergraduate degree programs, of which the most popular majors are health and human performance, nursing, biology, management, criminal justice, early childhood education, and psychology.
ASU offers graduate programs in multiple academic areas including Master of Business Administration, Master of Education, Master of Science in Criminal Justice, Master of Public Administration, Master of Social Work, Master of Science in Nursing and an Educational Specialist degree.
ASU is one of only two USG schools to offer the Nexus program. ASU has two options: blockchain with machine learning and blockchain with data analytics.
ASU is the largest HBCU in Georgia.
