About Savannah State University

Savannah State University is a public historically black academe in Savannah, Georgia. It is the oldest historically black public the academy in the state. The academic circles is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Savannah State operates three colleges (College of Business Administration, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, College of Sciences and Technology) and the Office of Graduate Studies and Sponsored Research (OGSSR). It plus participates in research centers and programs at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Support; Savannah Entrepreneurial Center; the Midtown Project; the Georgia Institute of Technology Regional Engineering Program (GTREP); and “A Collaboration to Integrate Research and Education in Marine and Environmental Science and Biotechnology” with the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, part of the University of Georgia.

Savannah (/səˈvænə/) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and far along the first make a clean breast capital of Georgia. A strategic harbor city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial middle and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia’s fifth-largest city, with a 2019 estimated population of 144,464. The Savannah metropolitan area, Georgia’s third-largest, had an estimated population of 393,353 in 2019.

Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings. These buildings tally the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA), the Georgia Historical Society (the oldest continually operational historical work in the South), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South’s first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third-oldest synagogue in the U.S.), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail gift in the U.S.).

Savannah’s downtown area, which includes the Savannah Historic District, the Savannah Victorian Historic District, and 22 parklike squares, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States (designated by the U.S. government in 1966). Downtown Savannah largely retains the original town mean prescribed by founder James Oglethorpe (a design now known as the Oglethorpe Plan). Savannah was the host city for the sailing competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta.