The University of Georgia, established in 1785, and generally alluded to as UGA or just Georgia, is an American open area award and ocean stipend research college. Its essential area is a 759-section of land (3.07 km2) grounds in the school town of Athens, Georgia, around an hour's drive from Atlanta, Georgia. It is viewed as the State of Georgia's leader college. The college is positioned twentieth generally speaking among all open national colleges in the current U.S. News and World Report rankings, and reliably positions as high as 101st among all the top worldwide colleges on the planet. While having high general appraisals, Georgia positions in the main 10 for assessments in a few fields of study. The college is a piece of the University System of Georgia and is licensed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is delegated an "Exploration University/Very High Research Activity" with a "More Selective" understudy body by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
Established in 1785 as the United States' first state-sanctioned college, it is the most established and biggest of Georgia's foundations of higher learning and alongside the College of William and Mary and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill guarantees the title of the most established state funded college in the United States.The college's memorable North Campus is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as an assigned architecturally significant area, and it and the adjacent grounds zones incorporate moving slopes and broad arboreta.
The college offers more than 140 degree programs in a wide exhibit of orders. Comprising of thirteen libraries spread over different grounds, the UGA Libraries contain an aggregate of 4.7 million volumes and one of the country's biggest map accumulations. The University of Georgia is one of 126 part organizations that involve the Association of Research Libraries.
The University of Georgia is sorted out into seventeen schools and universities. The college has three essential grounds. The biggest one is the fundamental grounds in Athens that incorporates 389 structures, while the two others are situated in Tifton, Georgia and Griffin, Georgia. The University of Georgia likewise has two satellite grounds situated in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The college works a few administration and effort stations spread over the state. The aggregate grounds used by the college situated in 30 Georgia districts is 39,950 sections of land (161.672 km²).
The University of Georgia likewise possesses a private and exploration focus in Washington, DC, in addition to three worldwide private and examination focuses situated at Oxford University in Oxford, England, at Cortona, Italy, and at Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Understudy games, both varsity and intramural, are an essential piece of understudy and graduated class life. The University of Georgia's intercollegiate games groups, ordinarily known by their "Georgia Bulldogs" moniker, contend in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). UGA served as an establishing individual from the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the college's varsity games groups have won 39 national titles and 130 gathering titles. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the official walking band of the college, plays at games and different occasions
