Mission of the University of Georgia The University of Georgia, a land-grant and sea-grant university with statewide commitments and responsibilities, is the state's oldest, most comprehensive, and most diversified institution of higher education. Its motto, "to teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things," reflects the University's integral and unique role in the conservation and enhancement of the state's and nation's intellectual, cultural, and environmental heritage. The University of Georgia shares with the other research universities of the University System of Georgia the following core characteristics: a statewide responsibility and commitment to excellence and academic achievements having ...show more »
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| Institution Type | 4-year, Public |
| Special Learning Opportunities | ROTC (Army, Air Force) Teacher certification Distance learning opportunities Study abroad |
| Student Services | Remedial services Academic/career counseling service Employment services for students Placement services for completers On-campus day care for students' children |
| Credit Accepted | Dual credit Advanced placement (AP) credits |
| Religious Affiliation | Not applicable |
| Federal Aid | Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans). |
| Degrees/Certificates Offered | Bachelor's degree Master's degree Post-master's certificate Doctor's degree - research/scholarship Doctor's degree - professional practice |
| Campus Setting | City: Midsize |
| Disability Services Student | 3% or less |
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At University of Georgia, 93.0% percent of first-time undergrads receive financial aid, 75.0% receive grants and/or scholarships (an average of $6,596), and 32% receive loans ($6,163 on average). On-campus room and board costs about $8,046. Taking into account total living expenses and financial aid, the average net cost of attending University of Georgia is $9,224 per year. |
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| Yearly Tuition | |
| Tuition Undergrad in State | $7,530 |
| Tuition Undergrad Out of State | $25,740 |
| Tuition Graduate in State | $6,000 |
| Tuition Graduate Out of State | $20,904 |
| Living Costs | |
| Total Expense in State on Campus | $18,000 |
| Total Expense Out of State On Campus | $36,210 |
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In Fall 2009, 17,207 people applied to University of Georgia. Of the applicants, 56.0% were admitted (51.0% male & 58.0% female ) and 51.0% accepted (51.0% male and 51.0% female) Of the 26,142 undergraduate students at University of Georgia, 6.0% are part-time. A majority (95.0%) of the undergrad students are under 25 years of age. And 27.0% of the 8,743 graduate students are part-time. |
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| Percent of In-State Undergrads | 85.0% |
| Full Time Retention Rate | 94.0% |
| Part Time Retention Rates | 83.0% |
| Four-Year Graduation Rate | 48.0% |
| Six-Year Graduation Rate | 77.0% |
| Overall Graduation Rate | 80.0% |
| Admissions | |
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| Admissions Office Phone | (706) 542-8776 |
| Admissions Office Email | adm-info@uga.edu |
| Admissions Office Address | Office of Undergraduate Admissions Terrell Hall The University of Georgia Athens GA 30602-1633 |
| Admissions Transfer URL | http://www.admissions.uga.edu |
| Admissions Website | http://www.admissions.uga.edu (find financial aid info here) |
| Application Website | http://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/application_information.html/ |
| Application Fee | $60 |
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In order to be accepted to University of Georgia, you should have:
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| Test Scores | |
| SAT Reading (25th Percentile) | 560 |
| SAT Reading (75th Percentile) | 660 |
| SAT Math (25th Percentile) | 570 |
| SAT Math (75th Percentile) | 660 |
| SAT Writing (25th Percentile) | 560 |
| SAT Writing (75th Percentile) | 660 |
| ACT Composite (25th Percentile) | 24 |
| ACT Composite (75th Percentile) | 29 |
| ACT English (25th Percentile) | 24 |
| ACT English (75th Percentile) | 30 |
| ACT Math (25th Percentile) | 24 |
| ACT Math (75th Percentile) | 29 |
| ACT Writing (25th Percentile) | 8 |
| ACT Writing (75th Percentile) | 9 |
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| Program Name | Certificate | Associate | Bachelor | Master | Doctorate |
| Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences | 206 | 66 | 19 | ||
| Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations | 39 | ||||
| Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding | 3 | 2 | |||
| Agricultural Communication/Journalism | 5 | ||||
| Agricultural Economics | 18 | 24 | 1 | ||
| Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences, Other | 11 | ||||
| Agriculture, General | 17 | ||||
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 7 | 1 | |||
| Animal Sciences, General | 45 | 5 | 3 | ||
| Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations, General | 18 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Dairy Science | 0 | ||||
| Food Science | 16 | 20 | 10 | ||
| Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management | 3 | ||||
| Poultry Science | 22 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Turf and Turfgrass Management | 15 | ||||
| Architecture and related services | 79 | 15 | |||
| Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD) | 79 | 15 | |||
| Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies | 13 | ||||
| African-American/Black Studies | 2 | ||||
| Latin American Studies | 6 | ||||
| Women's Studies | 5 | ||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 512 | 28 | 70 | ||
| Biochemistry | 59 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 340 | ||||
| Biotechnology | 7 | ||||
| Botany/Plant Biology | 2 | 4 | 12 | ||
| Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology | 13 | 2 | 5 | ||
| Ecology | 21 | 4 | 10 | ||
| Entomology | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Genetics, General | 22 | 2 | 6 | ||
| Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography | 2 | 6 | |||
| Microbiology, General | 45 | 2 | 12 | ||
| Plant Pathology/Phytopathology | 2 | 2 | |||
| Toxicology | 2 | 7 | |||
| Business, management, marketing, and related support services | 1 | 445 | 15 | ||
| Accounting | 176 | 117 | |||
| Business Administration and Management, General | 174 | 266 | 11 | ||
| Business/Commerce, General | 12 | ||||
| Business/Managerial Economics | 91 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Fashion Merchandising | 76 | ||||
| Finance, General | 315 | 0 | |||
| Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General | 18 | ||||
| Insurance | 104 | ||||
| International Business/Trade/Commerce | 67 | ||||
| Management Information Systems, General | 99 | ||||
| Marketing Research | 29 | ||||
| Marketing/Marketing Management, General | 231 | ||||
| Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management | 13 | ||||
| Real Estate | 78 | ||||
| Communication, journalism, and related programs | 399 | 30 | 9 | ||
| Advertising | 140 | ||||
| Broadcast Journalism | 50 | ||||
| Journalism | 102 | ||||
| Journalism, Other | 30 | ||||
| Mass Communication/Media Studies | 9 | ||||
| Public Relations/Image Management | 107 | ||||
| Communications technologies/technicians and support services | 85 | ||||
| Radio and Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician | 85 | ||||
| Computer and information sciences and support services | 50 | 48 | 9 | ||
| Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | 9 | ||||
| Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other | 22 | ||||
| Computer Science | 50 | 17 | 9 | ||
| Education | 91 | 553 | 393 | 108 | |
| Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching | 2 | 25 | 22 | ||
| Agricultural Teacher Education | 21 | ||||
| Art Teacher Education | 1 | 5 | |||
| Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services | 24 | 46 | 3 | ||
| Early Childhood Education and Teaching | 3 | ||||
| Education, General | 2 | ||||
| Education, Other | 3 | ||||
| Education/Teaching of the Gifted and Talented | 1 | ||||
| Educational Leadership and Administration, General | 5 | 25 | 2 | ||
| Educational/Instructional Media Design | 18 | 25 | 9 | ||
| Elementary Education and Teaching | 3 | ||||
| English/Language Arts Teacher Education | 5 | 19 | 28 | ||
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education | 5 | ||||
| Foreign Language Teacher Education | 17 | 10 | |||
| Health Teacher Education | 15 | ||||
| Higher Education/Higher Education Administration | 11 | ||||
| Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching | 3 | 39 | 17 | 3 | |
| Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching | 6 | 107 | 41 | 3 | |
| Mathematics Teacher Education | 9 | 39 | 31 | 10 | |
| Music Teacher Education | 2 | 30 | 17 | 1 | |
| Physical Education Teaching and Coaching | 123 | 29 | 11 | ||
| Reading Teacher Education | 6 | 6 | 7 | ||
| Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education | 1 | 19 | 16 | 4 | |
| Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education | 2 | ||||
| Social Studies Teacher Education | 2 | 49 | 23 | 4 | |
| Special Education and Teaching, General | 2 | 47 | 14 | 1 | |
| Technical Teacher Education | 6 | 20 | 30 | 8 | |
| Technology Teacher Education/Industrial Arts Teacher Education | 2 | ||||
| Engineering | 36 | 4 | 7 | ||
| Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering | 36 | 4 | 7 | ||
| English language and literature/letters | 280 | 25 | 13 | ||
| Creative Writing | 2 | ||||
| English Language and Literature, General | 165 | 17 | 11 | ||
| Speech and Rhetorical Studies | 115 | 6 | 2 | ||
| Family and consumer sciences/human sciences | 384 | 20 | 10 | ||
| Apparel and Textiles, General | 2 | ||||
| Child Development | 161 | 8 | 6 | ||
| Consumer Economics | 80 | ||||
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Communication | 24 | ||||
| Family Resource Management Studies, General | 19 | ||||
| Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies, General | 30 | 9 | 2 | ||
| Housing and Human Environments, General | 70 | 1 | |||
| Textile Science | 2 | ||||
| Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics | 268 | 43 | 14 | ||
| Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature | 1 | ||||
| Arabic Language and Literature | 1 | ||||
| Chinese Language and Literature | 2 | ||||
| Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics, General | 4 | 6 | |||
| Comparative Literature | 19 | 7 | 3 | ||
| French Language and Literature | 21 | 5 | |||
| German Language and Literature | 24 | 4 | |||
| Italian Language and Literature | 6 | ||||
| Japanese Language and Literature | 6 | ||||
| Latin Language and Literature | 8 | 3 | |||
| Linguistics | 24 | 4 | 6 | ||
| Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General | 22 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Russian Language and Literature | 3 | ||||
| Spanish Language and Literature | 127 | 9 | |||
| Health professions and related clinical sciences | 1 | 149 | 84 | 248 | |
| Communication Disorders, General | 1 | 42 | 19 | ||
| Dietetics/Dietitian (RD) | 49 | ||||
| Environmental Health | 12 | 5 | |||
| Music Therapy/Therapist | 2 | ||||
| Pharmacy (PharmD [USA], PharmD or BS/BPharm [Canada]) | 128 | ||||
| Pharmacy Administration/Policy/Regulatory Affairs (MS, PhD) | 2 | 8 | |||
| Public Health Education and Promotion | 44 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Public Health, General (MPH, DPH) | 42 | ||||
| Veterinary Infectious Diseases (Cert, MS, PhD) | 7 | 3 | |||
| Veterinary Medicine (DVM) | 97 | ||||
| Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology (Cert, MS, PhD) | 3 | 4 | |||
| Veterinary Physiology (Cert, MS, PhD) | 1 | ||||
| Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sci, Gen (Cert,MS,PhD) | 5 | ||||
| Veterinary Toxicology and Pharmacology (Cert, MS, PhD) | 1 | ||||
| History | 149 | 3 | 3 | ||
| History, General | 149 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Legal professions and studies | 4 | 213 | |||
| Advanced Legal Research/Studies, Gen (LLM, MCL, MLI, MSL, JSD/SJD) | 4 | ||||
| Law (LLB, JD) | 213 | ||||
| Liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities | 14 | ||||
| Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies | 14 | ||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 55 | 29 | 13 | ||
| Mathematics, General | 38 | 10 | 3 | ||
| Statistics, General | 17 | 19 | 10 | ||
| Multi/interdisciplinary studies | 85 | 13 | 1 | ||
| Biological and Physical Sciences | 78 | ||||
| Cognitive Science | 7 | ||||
| Historic Preservation and Conservation | 13 | ||||
| Neuroscience | 1 | ||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 72 | 51 | 14 | ||
| Environmental Studies | 14 | ||||
| Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management | 6 | ||||
| Forest Sciences and Biology | 48 | 14 | |||
| Forestry, General | 15 | ||||
| Natural Resources/Conservation, General | 9 | 3 | |||
| Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management | 28 | ||||
| Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies | 52 | 5 | |||
| Kinesiology and Exercise Science | 5 | ||||
| Sport and Fitness Administration/Management | 52 | ||||
| Philosophy and religious studies | 72 | 11 | 3 | ||
| Philosophy | 32 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Religion/Religious Studies | 40 | 10 | |||
| Physical sciences | 55 | 15 | 32 | ||
| Astronomy | 4 | ||||
| Chemistry, General | 37 | 3 | 25 | ||
| Chemistry, Other | 1 | ||||
| Geology/Earth Science, General | 11 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Physics, General | 2 | 7 | 6 | ||
| Psychology | 13 | 351 | 30 | 39 | |
| Counseling Psychology | 9 | ||||
| Educational Psychology | 13 | 3 | 18 | 11 | |
| Psychology, General | 348 | 12 | 15 | ||
| School Psychology | 4 | ||||
| Public administration and social service professions | 46 | 230 | 11 | ||
| Public Administration | 64 | 7 | |||
| Social Work | 46 | 166 | 4 | ||
| Security and protective services | 58 | ||||
| Criminal Justice/Safety Studies | 58 | ||||
| Social sciences | 607 | 35 | 27 | ||
| Anthropology | 49 | 2 | 9 | ||
| Economics, General | 35 | ||||
| Geography | 36 | 15 | 9 | ||
| International Relations and Affairs | 176 | ||||
| Political Science and Government, General | 206 | 14 | 3 | ||
| Sociology | 105 | 4 | 6 | ||
| Visual and performing arts | 263 | 49 | 19 | ||
| Art History, Criticism and Conservation | 23 | 7 | |||
| Art/Art Studies, General | 159 | 14 | 3 | ||
| Dance, General | 4 | ||||
| Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General | 29 | 12 | 1 | ||
| Film/Cinema Studies | 16 | ||||
| Fine/Studio Arts, General | 14 | ||||
| Music Performance, General | 8 | ||||
| Music Theory and Composition | 4 | ||||
| Music, General | 6 | 16 | 15 | ||
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