Athens, GA 30602, Top 100 Universities in USA 2014 – Rank – 50, University of Georgia In Georgia 

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602, United States

The University of Georgia (commonly referred to as UGA or simply Georgia) is an American land-grant university and sea grantresearch university with its primary campus located on a 759-acre (3.07 km²) campus in Athens, Georgia, USA. It is the flagship university of the state of Georgia.^[6] The university is ranked 20th overall among all public national universities in the current 2014U.S. News & World Report rankings^[7] and consistently ranks within the top 200 universities worldwide across numerouspublications.^[8] UGA is classified as a ‘Research University/Very High Activity‘, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.^[9] The University of Georgia is a part of the University System of Georgia and is accredited by theSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Founded in 1785 as the United States‘s first state-chartered university, it is the oldest and largest of Georgia’s institutions of higher learning and along with the College of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill claims the title of the oldest public university in the United States.^[10] The university’s historic North Campus is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district.^[11]

The university offers over 140 degree programs in a wide array of disciplines.^[12] Consisting of thirteen libraries spread across multiple campuses, UGA Libraries contains a total of 4.7 million volumes and one of nation’s largest map collections. The University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries.^[13]

The University of Georgia is organized into eighteen schools and colleges. The university has three main campuses; the largest one is the main campus in Athens, Georgia and the two others are located in Tifton, Georgia and Griffin, Georgia. The University of Georgia also has two satellite campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville. The University operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state. The primary campus occupies 389 buildings on 759 acres. Total acreage utilized by the university, located in 30 Georgia counties, amounts to 39,950-acre (161.7 km²).^[12] The University of Georgia also owns three international residential and research centers located at Oxford University in Oxford, England, Cortona, Italy and Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Student athletics, both organized and intramural, are an integral part of student and alumni life. The University of Georgia’s intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their “Georgia Bulldogs” nickname, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). UGA served as a founding member of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the university’s varsity sports teams have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the official marching band of the university, plays at sports and other events.

RANKINGS

Academics

Rankings[edit]

U.S. News & World Report has ranked the university’s undergraduate program as 56th overall among national universities and 21st overall among public national universities.

UGA’s Public Affairs program was ranked 4th in the nation, while the Public Management Administration program was ranked second. UGA’s biological engineering program was ranked 11th in the nation. UGA’s theoretical chemistry program was also ranked 15th in the nation.^[79]

In 2011, the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business insurance and real estate programs were ranked respectively 2nd and 4th in the nation. The management information systems program was ranked 10th, while accounting program was ranked 16th in the nation. The general undergraduate program was ranked 28th, and graduate program was ranked 57th, of all of the nation’s business schools. Terry’s accounting program (MAcc) was ranked 11th in the nation by Public Accounting Report. The undergraduate accounting program was ranked 11th by Public Accounting Report. Businessweek named Terry’s executive MBA program 18th in the nation.^[80]

The School of Environment and Design was named the No. 1 Landscape Architecture program for undergraduates in the nation, as well as No. 3 for post-graduate studies in the list of top 15 Landscape Architecture Schools for 2006.^[81][82]

The University of Georgia School of Law was ranked 28th out of 201 American Bar Association approved national law schools in the 2011 edition of U.S. News & World Report. In its 2012 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranking of Georgia Law placed it in the top 17% of all American Bar Association approved law schools. Georgia Law excels in trial and appellate advocacy including national moot court competitions, for instance just celebrating a national championship victory at the 23rd Annual National First Amendment Moot Court Competition. Six Georgia Law graduates have served the U.S. Supreme Court as judicial clerks in the last nine years. Georgia Law ranks as third among public laws school for supplying clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court and 11th overall for the time period 2005-10. Given the University of Georgia School of Law’s in-state tuition, the New York Timesrecently completed a survey comparing starting salaries and degree costs of law schools and found “Georgia Law graduates earning some of the highest salaries in the country while their educational costs were reported among the very lowest, speaking to the quality of the education as well as the excellent return on investment provided at Georgia Law.”