University of Georgia

University of Georgia, public, coeducational institution in Athens, Georgia. Founded in 1785, the school opened in 1801 and functioned until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, when many faculty members and students joined the army of the Confederate States of America. The institution reopened in 1866, and in 1872 it received the proceeds of the sales of lands received by the state under the Land Grant Act of 1862.

The university is part of the University System of Georgia. It confers associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees through the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; the Terry College of Business; the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication; the D.B. Warnell School of Forest Resources; and through colleges of agriculture and environmental sciences, education, and veterinary medicine, and schools of environmental design, family and consumer sciences, law, pharmacy, and social work. A joint degree in engineering is offered in cooperation with the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Research facilities at the university include the Georgia Museum of Art, the Georgia Botanical Garden, the Museum of Natural History, the Institute for African-American Studies, and the Center for East-West Trade Policy.