University of Georgia

The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. Founded in 1785, it is one of the oldest public universities in the United States.[6] The flagship school of the University System of Georgia, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public universities in the United States, and has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies,[7]" a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.