by our College Data Analytics Team
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University of Georgia was awarded 109 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is teacher education subject specific.
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College Factual ranked UGA as #69 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UGA held the #72 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
UGA is also ranked #3 out of 68 schools in Georgia.
The acceptance rate at University of Georgia is a competitive 43%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 46% of students accepted to UGA submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 620 and 710. Math scores were between 600 and 710.
The student to faculty ratio at University of Georgia is about average at 17 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Georgia is 90%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
University of Georgia has a freshmen retention rate of 94%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At UGA the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 67%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 29,765 undergraduates at UGA with 27,888 being full-time and 1,877 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9,788 | $11,918 | $15,583 | $18,305 | $18,614 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UGA, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UGA, approximately 23% of students took out student loans averaging $6,778 a year. That adds up to $27,112 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for UGA are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Administration Building, Athens, GA 30602 |
| Phone: | 706-542-3000 |
| Website: | www.uga.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 692 | $56,630 |
| General Biology | 608 | $27,638 |
| General Psychology | 592 | $29,874 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 544 | $67,444 |
| Public Relations & Advertising | 391 | $45,326 |
| Accounting | 376 | $64,058 |
| Marketing | 375 | $51,951 |
| Management Information Systems | 358 | $78,190 |
| Romance Languages | 358 | $33,169 |
| Health & Physical Education | 358 | $33,108 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 7,932 students took at least one online class at University of Georgia. This is an increase from the 7,878 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 7,932 | 1,166 |
| 2021-2022 | 7,878 | 1,136 |
| 2020-2021 | 6,158 | 880 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,700 | 743 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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