GEORGIA, UNIVERSITY OF

public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Athens, Ga., U.S. It is part of the University System of Georgia and is a land-grant and sea-grant institution. The university includes the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, colleges of agriculture and environmental sciences, business, education, environmental design, family and consumer sciences, journalism and mass communications, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine, and schools of forest resources, law, and social work. It offers a full range of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degree programs, and the law school awards a doctorate in jurisprudence. Campus facilities include the Georgia State Botanical Garden, the Institute for African-American Studies, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the Center for East-West Trade Policy. Total enrollment is approximately 29,000. The university is the oldest college in the state, incorporated in 1785 by the General Assembly of Georgia. The university, then known as Franklin College, did not have a site until 1801; its first class graduated in 1804. In 1843 instruction in law began; the law school was organized in 1859. When the university received land-grant status in 1872, it received federal funding for agricultural and mechanical studies.