re: Where Every SEC school ranks in the 2026 U.S. News 2025 college rankings

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UGA is already full of the top professors in all fields, most of my professors there were from Ivy's, Cambridge, University of Chicago, Stanford, etc ... They all loved Athens. Don't kid yourself, UGA will quickly rise in Medical(our state politicians tried to sabotage that because they know Augusta is screwed) and the Engineering program is in a quick accent already. Professor like traditional college towns, Athens and it suburbs are highly desirable.

Unlike the Soviet Village of TAMU...who just have oil money and given their resources should be better than they are......

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Not taking away from UGA at all, great school. It's just fundamentally a Liberal Arts style with a very strong business school. For instance they don't admit by major and students can change to any college. GT is a heavy STEM/Engineering school with a very small Business and LA program. The schools are on the opposite side of the spectrum.

Top professors want to work at schools that are top in their field. UGA is just not a big engineering school and there is no medical school in Athens and there won't be anything that can compete with Emory in our lifetimes. That's ok. The model in Georgia was set up to have the 2 major public schools with different priorities and it works well, both schools have prospered. Emory is just different as a private school, it's like comparing Texas or A&M to Rice. They just appeal to a different type of student and prof and their Med School has a long established national reputation, it's generally considered the best Nursing school in the country as well.

A&M does just fine but not see how that's relevant to UGA and while some of the buildings definitely suck the Zachry Engineering building and the Mays Business School are absolutely elite facilities. Zachry was over $260 million when it was built a few years ago and everything about it is state of the art as are many of the surrounding buildings. If you go to some Freshman English class or something you may be in some old crappy building but that's hardly unique to A&M. BCS is also very much a college town so not sure of the flex there. Athens is awesome but BCS has much in common with it objectively with similar distance from Atlanta/Houston and both have significant populations, restaurants, and facilities. A&M is different than GT/UGA though as it is so much larger and kind of combines the elements of both of those schools academically.