Governors State University

About Governors State University

Governors State University (GovState) is an accredited public comprehensive university founded in 1969 and located in University Park, Illinois, approximately 30 miles south of downtown Chicago on an expansive 750-acre prairie campus. Serving over 4,400 students across four academic colleges—the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Education, and the College of Health and Human Services—GovState offers nationally accredited undergraduate, master's, specialist, and doctoral degree programs. The university is widely celebrated for its innovative Dual Degree Program (DDP) for community college transfer students, its AACSB-accredited business administration and accounting degrees, its doctoral programs in Physical Therapy (DPT), Nursing Practice (DNP), Occupational Therapy (OTD), and Interdisciplinary Leadership (Ed.D.), and the world-renowned Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park ("theNate"), an open-air museum featuring 30 masterwork sculptures set amidst native Illinois tallgrass prairie. GovState maintains intimate class sizes with an average class size of 15 and an 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio.