Georgia State University Earns More Than $185M in Grants in FY ’24

ATLANTA — Georgia State University earned $185.72 million in research awards in fiscal year 2024. This is the second-highest total in university history, and the fifth year in a row the university has topped $140 million in grants.

“Georgia State’s research program produces knowledge that reaches far beyond our home here in Atlanta and impacts our nation and the world,” said Georgia State President M. Brian Blake. “These grants fuel our work as a next-generation research university and help change lives, improve communities and answer critical questions in our global society.”

More than 1,300 projects were funded over the course of the fiscal year, and 26 investigators earned awards of $1 million or more. Of the university’s top 10 grant recipients, half are women.

In addition, multiple colleges within the university set records for total award funding, including the College of Arts & Sciences with $46.8 million, the College of Education & Human Development with $31 million, Perimeter College with $7.8 million, the J. Mack Robinson College of Business with $4 million and the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing & Health Professions with $2.9 million.

Georgia State’s School of Public Health, College of Law, College of the Arts and University Library also saw increases in grant funding from the previous fiscal year.

“Our faculty and staff bring not only high levels of expertise but high levels of passion to what they do,” said Georgia State Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Nicolle Parsons-Pollard. “Their commitment to exploring new horizons in their respective fields, whether that’s science, policy, education, health or the humanities, is what makes our teaching and learning environment so remarkable.”

In FY ’24, Georgia State received more than half of its grant funding, a total of $119 million, through federal sources. This included $32.2 million from the National Institutes of Health, $31.9 million from the U.S. Department of Education, $20.6 million from the National Science Foundation and $10.6 million from the Department of Defense. Additional funding came from state and local government grants and from nonprofit and for-profit entities.

“We like to say we see research through a unique lens,” said Donald Hamelberg, Georgia State’s interim vice president for research and economic development. “Our research program brings together a huge range of disciplines and perspectives, and that delivers fertile ground for both innovation and collaboration.”

Georgia State is one of the largest public research universities in Georgia and one of a handful of schools in the state with an R1 designation from the Carnegie Foundation, an honor reserved for the nation’s most active research institutions. Outgoing research expenditures have doubled in the last decade and topped $1.2 billion over the last six years.

For more information about Georgia State research and its impact, visit research.gsu.edu.