Regional accreditors gave final approval Tuesday to a merger between Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College.
The approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges is the final step needed before the state’s Board of Regents gives the consolidated institution authority to operate as the new Georgia State University. The Regents are expected to take up the approval at their meeting in January.
Once finalized, the new Georgia State University will be the largest college in the state with about 54,000 students. The merger, initially announced in January, will reduce the number of institutions in the state's public college system from 30 t0 29.
The GSU/GPC merger is the sixth within the University System in the past few years. A seventh consolidation is in the works that would combine Albany State University with Darton State College.
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