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Georgia Tech has become one of the most selective engineering schools in the country while remaining a public university, which is a combination that's genuinely rare at its level.
The University of Georgia in Athens maintains the traditions of a flagship Southern research university with strong programs in agriculture, law, and public health, and Atlanta's cluster of HBCUs, including Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta, and Morris Brown, represents one of the most significant concentrations of historically Black higher education anywhere in the world.
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See how Georgia's colleges compare to the national average on the four measures most students and families weigh when deciding where to go: cost, acceptance rates, graduate earnings, and graduation rates.
The colleges in Georgia that rank highest by UCD Score, and those that deliver above-national graduate earnings at a below-average net price, two of the strongest signals when choosing a school.
Not every student is looking for the same thing. These six panels rank Georgia's colleges by the data that matters most for each path.
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Which colleges give you the most for what you spend? These eight schools rank highest in Georgia by the ratio of 10-year graduate earnings to annual net price.
| # | College | Net Price / yr | Earnings (10yr) | Ratio | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Valdosta | $614 | $30,864 | 50.3× | Excellent |
| 2 | Southern Regional Technical College Thomasville | $813 | $31,293 | 38.5× | Excellent |
| 3 | South Georgia Technical College Americus | $1,164 | $30,364 | 26.1× | Excellent |
| 4 | West Georgia Technical College Waco | $2,457 | $35,479 | 14.4× | Excellent |
| 5 | Chattahoochee Technical College Marietta | $3,407 | $37,138 | 10.9× | Excellent |
| 6 | Columbus Technical College Columbus | $4,001 | $34,238 | 8.6× | Excellent |
| 7 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta | $12,116 | $102,772 | 8.5× | Excellent |
| 8 | North Georgia Technical College Clarkesville | $4,005 | $32,932 | 8.2× | Excellent |
ROI Ratio = median earnings 10 years after enrollment ÷ annual net price. Higher is better.
The six fields of study with the most annual graduates across all colleges in Georgia, based on IPEDS completion data.
The specific degree programs producing the most graduates across Georgia's colleges. A more granular view than the Popular Majors above, useful when you already know roughly what you want to study and want to see where the volume is.
Careers with a strong employment footprint in Georgia. What graduates from local colleges actually go on to do. State-level employment is shown where the BLS publishes it; national wage + growth shown alongside.
The cities in Georgia with the most colleges, ranked by number of institutions.
Utah crowds 14,137 students into each of its colleges, four times the national norm. These are the states where college options are scarcest per student.
There are 170 colleges that operate a medical school, and they cluster hard. Texas leads with 14, three states hold a fifth of them, and four states have none.
Northeast college graduates earn about $12,700 more a decade out than Southern ones, but they also pay thousands more to get there. The regional split, by the numbers.
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