The University of Georgia was founded on January 27, 1785, in Athens, GA. The main campus has 388 buildings on 615 acres and employs 10,053 people, 2,890 of whom are faculty, as of 2009. Enrollment, as of 2009, contained 26,142 undergraduate students and 8,743 graduate students.
Colleges and programs include agricultural and environmental sciences, business, law, pharmacy, family and consumer sciences and veterinary medicine, among others. UGA has approximately 600 registered student organizations and a healthy Greek life, with 35 fraternities and 23 sororities. Its Honors program has a total of 2,350 students. UGA offers 22 bachelor's degrees in "more than 140 fields," 24 master's degrees in 124 fields and four doctoral degrees in 91 fields, according to UGA's website.
Founded in 1978, Savannah College of Art and Design is an independent, nonprofit, accredited art school. SCAD offers a Bachelor and Master of Arts or Fine Arts, as well as master's degrees in architecture, urban design, arts in teaching art and arts in teaching drama. As of 2010, the most popular majors at SCAD were graphic design, animation, fashion, illustration and photography.
The private college in southern Georgia enrolls more than 10,000 students from every state in the country. According to their website, approximately 10 percent of students are international. SCAD employs over 1,500 full- and part-time workers, of whom 75 percent obtain terminal degrees. This art school has a campus in Atlanta, as well.
Georgia State University is located in Atlanta and was founded in 1913. It is a public university with approximately 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students in attendance, as of the fall of 2009. It has accreditation through 2018 by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC), and the university offers
55 degree programs with 250 fields of study offered through six colleges, according to the GSU website.
This university has 1,046 full-time faculty members, 72.1 of whom are tenured or on the tenure track. The school has 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic teams, and GSU takes part in the Colonial Athletic Association Conference.
Morehouse is the nation's only "male, historically and predominately higher education institution for African Americans," according to its website. The college claims to send more African-American males abroad to study than any other higher education institution in the country. It is a private school that enrolls 2,689 undergraduate students, as of January 2011.
Morehouse offers programs that result in a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. These programs include business administration and economics, humanities and social sciences and science and mathematics. Majors offered include sociology, modern foreign language, African American studies and computer science.