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Notable buildings include the Simon Schwob Memorial Library, the Center for Commerce and Technology, the D. This campus houses the majority of the university's academic and athletic departments. A satellite campus is also located on Fort Benning, Georgia at the southern edge of the city.ĬSU's main campus is located in suburban Columbus at the intersection of Interstate 185 and GA-85. Whitley Clock Tower on main campusĬolumbus State University's 132-acre main campus is located in suburban and downtown, Columbus. In August 2008, Tim Mescon became president, and in 2015 Chris Markwood became president. Prior to holding this office, he was Vice President for Business Affairs. įrank Brown was President of Columbus State University from 1988-2008. The Schwob School of Music is housed in the adjacent RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. The complex was designed to provide students of the fine arts with a tightly-knit living community and larger studios, laboratories, and galleries. In early 2007, the art and theatre departments moved to the university's newly built RiverPark Campus in downtown Columbus. As of the 2010 academic year, the university enrolled more than 8,200 students. The school now offers undergraduate and graduate programs in more than ninety academic disciplines. In 1996 the school was renamed Columbus State University as part of a program to restructure four-year institutions within the state's university system. The first four-year class graduated in 1970. The school was granted four-year status in 1965 with offerings of bachelor's and master's degrees. The college was staffed by fifteen faculty and staff and almost three hundred students attended courses in the first year.Ĭolumbus College relocated to the midtown area in 1963, building a campus defined by modern architecture on what was previously a dairy farm. The university was first called Columbus College when it opened as a junior college in a hosiery mill in 1958. Founded as Columbus College in 1958, the university was established and is administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Columbus State University is a public university in Columbus, Georgia.