FORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE

public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Fort Valley, Ga., U.S. It is part of the University System of Georgia. It is a land-grant college, and its enrollment is predominantly African-American. The college comprises the School of Agriculture, Home Economics, and Allied Programs; the School of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Education, Graduate, and Special Academic Programs. In addition to undergraduate studies, the college offers master's degree programs in education and counseling. Total enrollment is approximately 2,700. The college was created in 1939 by the merger of Fort Valley High and Industrial School and the State Teachers and Agricultural College of Forsyth. The Fort Valley High and Industrial School had been chartered in 1895, and the State Teachers and Agricultural College, which had been founded in 1902, initially operated out of the Kynett African Methodist Episcopal Church in Forsyth. In 1922 the Forsyth school had been designated a state agricultural and mechanical school. In 1949, 10 years after the merger that formed Fort Valley State College, the Georgia legislature designated the college the state's land-grant institution for blacks.