Fort Valley State University

Fort Valley State University (FVSU) is a historically black university (HBCU) located in Fort Valley, Georgia. It's also a unit of the University Systemof Georgia and a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. Fort Valley is approximately 80 miles (130 km) south (320 km) of Atlanta, 25miles (40 km) south of Macon,18 miles (28 km) west of Warner Robins, and 15 miles (24 km) north of Perry. As the only 1890 land-grant university in Georgia,Fort Valley State University is a comprehensive institution that provides an education to over 4,000 students. The student body is currently approximately91% of African-American descent. The average age of undergraduates is 24 and the average age of graduates is 33. Roughly one-third of the students liveon-campus and 85 percent of the student body are full-time students. The University is located in the town of Fort Valley in Peach County, the originalsite of the nation's peach industry. Its 1,365 acre (5.52 km) campus is the second-largest in area for a public university in the state.