Georgia Southern Gains Higher Status as Research University
Georgia Southern University has been elevated to an “R2” high research institution in the revised 2018 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning. It is the second-highest classification for research institutions in the country.
Carnegie ranked 4,424 universities and colleges – public and private, both for profit and not for profit. Of those, 120 were classified as R1 or Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity, and 139 – including Georgia Southern – were designated as R2 or Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity.
“This says our faculty have been doing a good job,” said Carl L. Reiber, Ph.D., Georgia Southern’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. “This is a great accomplishment. From a national perspective, it really does put us in a different league. This will say a lot about who we are to prospective students and faculty.”
Reiber said last year Georgia Southern spent
about $17.5 million on research to
support the University’s broader educational goals and in support of the region’s needs. The elevated ranking of
an R2 came after computing those
expenditures with the number of doctoral degrees awarded.