University of Georgia

The University of Georgia, founded in 1785, and frequently referred to as UGA or artlessly Georgia, is an American accessible land-grant and sea admission analysis university. Its primary area is a 759-acre (3.07 km2) campus in the academy boondocks of Athens, Georgia, about an hour's drive from Atlanta, Georgia. It is advised the Accompaniment of Georgia's flagship university. The university is ranked 20th all-embracing a allotment of all accessible civic universities in the accepted U.S. News & Apple Report rankings. and consistently ranks as top as 101st a allotment of all the top all-embracing universities in the world.While accepting top all-embracing ratings, Georgia ranks in the top 10 for evaluations in several fields of study. The university is a allotment of the University System of Georgia and is accepted by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is classified as a "Research University / Very Top Analysis Activity" with a "More Selective" apprentice physique by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of College Education.
Founded in 1785 as the United States' aboriginal state-chartered university, it is the oldest and better of Georgia's institutions of college acquirements and forth with the Academy of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claims the appellation of the oldest accessible university in the United States.The university's celebrated North Campus is on the U.S. Civic Register of Celebrated Places as a appointed celebrated district, and it and the abutting campus areas cover rolling hills and all-encompassing arboreta.
The university offers over 140 amount programs in a advanced arrangement of disciplines.Consisting of thirteen libraries advance beyond assorted campuses, the UGA Libraries accommodate a absolute of 4.7 actor volumes and one of the nation's better map collections. The University of Georgia is one of 126 affiliate institutions that comprise the Association of Analysis Libraries.
The University of Georgia is organized into seventeen schools and colleges. The university has three primary campuses. The better one is the capital campus in Athens that includes 389 buildings, while the two others are amid in Tifton, Georgia and Griffin, Georgia. The University of Georgia aswell has two digital campuses amid in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The university operates several account and beat stations advance beyond the state. The absolute acreage activated by the university amid in 30 Georgia counties is 39,950 acreage (161.672 km²).
The University of Georgia aswell owns a residential and analysis centermost in Washington, DC, additional three all-embracing residential and analysis centers amid at Oxford University in Oxford, England, at Cortona, Italy, and at Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Student athletics, both varsity and intramural, are an basic allotment of apprentice and alumni life. The University of Georgia's intercollegiate sports teams, frequently accepted by their "Georgia Bulldogs" nickname, attempt in Civic Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Appointment (SEC). UGA served as a founding affiliate of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the university's varsity sports teams accept won 39 civic championships and 130 appointment championships. The Georgia Redcoat Boot Band, the official boot bandage of the university, plays at sports and added events.