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Founded in 1785, the University of Georgia awarded its first graduate degree, a Master of Arts, nearly a century later in 1870. The first Master of Arts curriculum was put in place in 1868 during the administration of Chancellor Andrew A. Lipscomb, and the first graduate degrees were awarded in 1870 to Washington Dessau, future chancellor Walter Barnard Hill, and Burgess Smith. [5]
The C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business is a constituent college of the University of Georgia, a research university in Athens, Georgia, United States.The business college offers undergraduate programs, MBA programs, specialized master's programs, and doctoral programs.
The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity", [11] and as having "more selective" undergraduate admissions. [12] The University of Georgia's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their Georgia Bulldogs name, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the ...
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.
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 System of Georgia was created with the passage of the Reorganization Act of 1931 by the Georgia General Assembly in 1931. The Reorganization Act created a Board of Regents to oversee the state's colleges and universities and the 26 boards of trustees that had provided oversight over the various institutions before passage of the act. [9]
Pages in category "Colleges and schools of the University of Georgia" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
There are 282 universities in the United States that award the PhD degree, and those universities vary widely in their criteria for admission, as well as the rigor of their academic programs. [1] Typically, PhD programs require applicants to have a bachelor's degree in a relevant field (and, in many cases in the humanities, a master's degree ...