unitid 139959 · Athens, GA · public 4-year · city (midsize)
University of Georgia
Public university in Athens, Georgia, US
- founded
- 1785
- enrollment 2023
- 44,713
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- uga.edu
The University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the first state-chartered public university in the United States. It is the flagship school of the University System of Georgia. wikipedia rev 1363322321 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
38%
5th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
32,137
95th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
17%
undergrads on Pell grants
9th pctl among public 4-years
completion
90%
finish within 150% time
99th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$27,993
80th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$13,936
after aid, aided students
59th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$68,726
after entry, Title IV students
88th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$18,500
40th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $8,085 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k21%
- 30-48k14%
- 48-75k16%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $64,179
- First-generation students
- 18%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $11,450
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology, General. | 591 | $58,364 | $21,552 |
| Biology, General. | 573 | $64,387 | $23,096 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 545 | $95,338 | $20,299 |
| Marketing. | 398 | $82,677 | $20,000 |
| Management Information Systems and Services. | 369 | $111,592 | $19,500 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 311 | $156,018 | — |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 298 | $73,502 | $21,787 |
| Political Science and Government. | 266 | $66,357 | $22,171 |
| Insurance. | 252 | $89,304 | $22,394 |
| Computer Science. | 247 | $100,784 | $22,500 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 243 | $75,756 | $19,500 |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 239 | $66,397 | $22,250 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,989 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,192) · basketball player (553) · American football player (332) · politician (297) · university teacher (250) · lawyer (189) · writer (83) · judge (80)
The portrait wall
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Kim Basinger
91 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Andy Roddick
69 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Josh Holloway
50 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wayne Knight
49 wikis · CC BY 4.0
John Isner
47 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Michael Stipe
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kyle Chandler
43 wikis · Public domain
Dominique Wilkins
40 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Bill Goldberg
39 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Missy Franklin
39 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Marjorie Taylor Greene
38 wikis · Public domain
Ryan Seacrest
37 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Matt Lanter
37 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Shaunae Miller
35 wikis · GFDL
Alan Ball
34 wikis · CC BY 3.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363322321), CC BY-SA 4.0.