University of Georgia

                            

        The University of Georgia, founded in 1785, and commonly referred to as UGH or simply Georgia, is an American public land-grant and sea grant research university. Its primary location is a 759-acre campus in the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hour's drive from Atlanta, Georgia. It is considered the State of Georgia's flagship university.

The university is ranked 20th overall among all public national universities in the current U.S. News & World Report rankings, and consistently ranks as high as 101st among all the top international universities in the world. While having high overall ratings, Georgia ranks in the top 10 for evaluations in several fields of study.
University of Georgia

 The university is a part of the University System of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is classified as a  Research University / Very High Research Activity with a More Selective student body by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Founded in 1785 as the United States' 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 at Chapel Hill claims the title of the oldest public university in the United States.  The university's historic North Campus is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district, and it and the contiguous campus areas include rolling hills and extensive arbor eta.

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

The University of Georgia is organized into seventeen schools and colleges. The university has three primary campuses. The largest one is the main campus in Athens that includes 389 buildings, while the two others are located in Clifton, Georgia and Griffin, Georgia. The University of Georgia also has two satellite campuses 

located in Atlanta and Lawrence ville, Georgia. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state. The total acreage utilized by the university located in 30 Georgia counties is 39,950 acres .diversity of Georgia

The University of Georgia was incorporated on January 27, 1785, by the Georgia General Assembly, which had given its trustees, the Senates Academics of the University of Georgia, 40,000 acres   for the purposes of founding a  college or seminary of learning.


 The Senates Academics was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards. The first meeting of the university's board of trustees was held in 


On July 2, 1799, the Senates Academics met again in Louisville, Georgia and decided that the time was right to officially begin the University. During this meeting 633 acres   on the banks of the Cone River were chosen on which the university was to be built.

 
Augusta, Georgia on February 13, 1786. The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut and graduate of Yale University. Baldwin was one of the forty signers of the United States Constitution. Many features on the University of Georgia campus resemble the campus of Yale.

 This tract of land, now a part of the consolidated of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, was then part of Jackson County. The meeting also established a new president of the university naming Josiah Mei's, another 

Yale graduate, to the post. The first classes were held in 1801, in what was called the Franklin College, named in honor of Benjamin Franklin. The first graduating class graduated on May 31, 1804.