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As of August 2017, the University of Georgia Graduate School offered 327 graduate degree programs: 115 doctoral, 140 master's, 15 education specialist, 46 interdisciplinary and 11 online degree programs. The Doctor of Philosophy is offered in 86 disciplines, the Master of Arts in 35 disciplines, and the Master of Science in 50 disciplines.
The business college offers undergraduate programs, MBA programs, specialized master's programs, and doctoral programs. It was founded as the first business school in the American South in 1912. The Terry College has 10 programs that have top 10 public rankings. [ 4 ]
Master's programs were added to the Bachelor's Programs during these years. By 2007 the university had already received its first PhD program students. In 2010, for the first time in the post-Soviet era, the United States Agency OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) invested multimillion dollars in the development of the university's ...
In November 2018, the University of Georgia launched a number of research initiatives funded by a $3 million NSF grant, including a project to transform the school's science education. [265] The university also added a new $143.6 million Interdisciplinary Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (I-STEM) building that was completed in 2023. [266]
A master's degree program was authorized in 1938. In 1961, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, along with Hamilton E. Holmes, became the first two African-American students to desegregate the University of Georgia. In 1963, Hunter-Gault graduated with a journalism degree from Grady and went on to a notable career in multimedia news reporting.
Rhodes Hall, located on the University of Georgia Health Sciences Campus, became the administrative home of the UGA College of Public Health in October 2013. The new college was founded to house various research, faculty and outreach programs in one college so that public health needs would be better addressed.
Family and consumer sciences began at the University of Georgia in 1918 with the establishment of the Division of Home Economics. It was the 5th college to be established at the University of Georgia. In 1919, Mary E. Creswell became both the first home economics graduate and the first female to graduate from the University of Georgia.
The University of Georgia School of Law (Georgia Law) is the law school of the University of Georgia, a public research university in Athens, Georgia. It was founded in 1859, making it one of the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation. [5] Georgia Law accepted 14.77% of applicants for the class entering in 2023. [3] [6]