
A NEXT-GENERATION RESEARCH UNIVERSITY
At Georgia State, innovation is central to everything we do. In research, that means removing barriers to collaboration. It means recruiting faculty who can accelerate problem-solving. And it means encouraging researchers to think big, push boundaries and disrupt the status quo.
Georgia State faculty earned $224.72 million in research funding in fiscal year 2023, the highest total in university history.
Georgia State is among the nation’s top 146 public and private universities in the Carnegie Foundation’s elite category of Highest Research Activity.
The National Science Foundation ranks Georgia State #118 out of 648 schools nationwide for research expenditures, landing it among the top 20% for the fifth year in a row.
Cross-Cutting Research, Life-Changing Impact

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ONE OF THE NATION'S FASTEST-GROWING RESEARCH PORTFOLIOS
In the past decade, Georgia State has been distinguished by the tremendous expansion of its research program. From fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2020, research expenditures at Georgia State have shot up by 150 percent, making the university one of the fastest-growing research institutions in the nation.
``Georgia State scientists oversee a wide-ranging research portfolio that is generating new insights and new discoveries in human health.``
– Susan Shows, President, Georgia Research Alliance
Research News
New Study Suggests Existence of a Universal, Nonverbal, Communication System
Research by Şeyda Özçalışkan suggests that the way humans gesture when they aren’t speaking is the same no matter what language they speak.
Two Biomedical Sciences Researchers Named Among World’s Most Highly Cited Scientists for 2023
Two leading researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State have been ranked in the top 1 percent worldwide by citations for their field and publication year in the Web of Science database.
Connectivity Scans Could Serve as Brain ‘Blueprints’ for Adolescents, Researchers Find
Two new studies by experts in the collaborative TReNDS Center at Georgia State highlight how brain imaging can be used to predict and identify cognitive outcomes and psychiatric risk in young people.
Georgia State Hosts Deep-Dive Event on Intellectual Property and AI
Expert panels discuss how to navigate the fast-changing world of AI, IP and copyright law
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