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re: UGA can become academically relevant by aligning w/ Georgia Tech
Posted on 7/6/22 at 7:25 pm to lewis and herschel
Posted on 7/6/22 at 7:25 pm to lewis and herschel
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Have you seen how far UGA has come in 30 years? Many if not most professors would want to live in college towns with fun atmospheres to be apart of....
Most profs don’t live in Athens.
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Posted on 7/6/22 at 7:50 pm to MadQfrog
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So what’s next for the UGa - MCG thing? Are they going to separate out the campus and make it it’s own medical school or are they going to continue on this partnership? Like it doesn’t make sense that all of GA only has one public medical school. Look at how many Florida has.
For the forseeable future, there won’t be an actual College of Medicine at UGA. Closest thing is what currently exists wherein UGA students can graduate undergrad and go to MCG in Augusta and then return to do their practicums/residency at St Mary’s or Piedmont in Athens as MCG med students.
UGA had associate deans from Ivy league medical programs lined up to interview for the Dean position for our med school before it all got scuttled. Not sure if it is published record anywhere but the presumption is that Augusta University, MCG, and the city itself applied a lot of political pressure to prevent the College from moving forward because it would take a huge bite out of the MCG enrollment (and importance). They already lose most of the top students to privates like Emory and Mercer (not sure how much they compete with Morehouse) UGA would almost surely jump ahead of them given the desirability of living in Athens compared to Augusta
This post was edited on 7/6/22 at 7:58 pm
Posted on 7/7/22 at 7:31 am to Pulpwood Patterson
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And It’s not just education. It’s public works, sheriffs dept and jails, sanitation, fire and rescue, road maintenance etc. you need at least 25k people to operate/justify a independent county or have shared services with a neighboring county. It’s particularly bad in areas where your rural lands are timber and not an annual row crop. You may have 10 individuals that own 1/2 the land in that county and they don’t live there. On top of that’s there’s no annual commercial enterprise taking place on the land to generate sales taxes, jobs, buy diesel, etc. and the land is in conservation so they pay the lowest tax rate possible. It all adds up to a very poor county.
Bitching about land ownership feels like shaking fists at the clouds.
But i agree that Georgia could merge several county governments and create more efficiencies of taxation. Merging tax assessor departments alone would free up duplicated services that could easily be managed better (freeing up more money for schools).
Posted on 7/7/22 at 2:11 pm to Poichess
UGA already is academically relevant, more so than any SEC school aside from Vanderbilt.
Average ACT: 32
Average SAT: 1400
Law, business, journalism, poli sci, etc. programs all top ranked. Direct feeder to Atlanta.
We have the same admissions standards as GT (actually might be more competitive at this point), but with a much, much better campus, far superior college town, much prettier women (GT is like 70% male), national championship-caliber sports, and an actually proud alumni base.
GT has engineering. That’s it. Full stop.
UGA dominates the state in every other program.
Source for UGA admissions:
LINK /
I’m sorry that Louisiana is such a shite hole.
Average ACT: 32
Average SAT: 1400
Law, business, journalism, poli sci, etc. programs all top ranked. Direct feeder to Atlanta.
We have the same admissions standards as GT (actually might be more competitive at this point), but with a much, much better campus, far superior college town, much prettier women (GT is like 70% male), national championship-caliber sports, and an actually proud alumni base.
GT has engineering. That’s it. Full stop.
UGA dominates the state in every other program.
Source for UGA admissions:
LINK /
I’m sorry that Louisiana is such a shite hole.
This post was edited on 7/7/22 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 7/7/22 at 2:54 pm to Poichess
The University of Georgia is the ranked
48th nationally
19th in the power 5
3rd in the state, Emory, GT
3rd in the SEC , Vandy, Florida (about to be 4th with Texas coming in)
How much more academically relevant does it need to be?
And the highest ranked Current National Champion in the “Big 3”.
48th nationally
19th in the power 5
3rd in the state, Emory, GT
3rd in the SEC , Vandy, Florida (about to be 4th with Texas coming in)
How much more academically relevant does it need to be?
And the highest ranked Current National Champion in the “Big 3”.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 3:07 pm to Poichess
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I believe Georgia Tech leaving the SEC was a huge mistake. Decades ago Tech presidents clearly downgraded football importance and shifted their attention to research money.
So, UGA Athens Revenue is like $800 million and GT is like $2.2B?? A recent article came out with GT responsible for 20% of the $20B economic impact to the state of Georgia.
GT is now the #1 research institute without a medical program. Top DoD research institution.
Atlanta is about to explode. I'm talking insane amounts of money and influence is moving in and it really is ALL due to Georgia Tech.
I am confused, seems like GT did well focusing on Research and not Football. 2.2 Billion dollars in research, that is insane. You would think being a premier academic institution would be worth something.
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