The Gainesville State College Oconee Campus was located on Bishop Farms Parkway in Watkinsville, Georgia.

In October 2005, the Board of Regents voted to expand the school's mission and change its name to Gainesville State College.

The school was reclassified as a four-year state college, which allowed it to begin offering a limited selection of baccalaureate degrees.

Gainesville State College students could participate in student activities such as intramurals, clubs and organizations, bands, chorus, publications, cultural affairs programs, fine arts offerings, extended orientation, and international-intercultural studies programs.

To promote student involvement in extra-curricular activities, the college offered co-curricular transcripts for use in job and academic applications.

The college Continuing Education Department supports professional and vocational interests of area citizens and reflects a lifelong learning philosophy of the institution.

Items such as notebooks and sweatshirts in the GSC bookstore were branded with "Home of the Fighting Geese" and Laker T. Goose mascots.

Those images were intended only to effect school spirit, because GSC did not field intercollegiate or extramural athletic teams.