In their more than 120-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won 45 national championships, 264 individual national championships, 172 conference championships, and 56 Olympic medals.

The University of Georgia's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their Georgia Bulldogs nickname, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Student life includes almost 800 student organizations including academic associations, honor societies, debate societies, publications, cultural groups, student government organizations, religious groups, social groups and fraternities, volunteer and community service programs, philanthropic groups, and others. The university also owns a residential education and research center in Washington, DC, as well as three international residential education and research centers located at Oxford University in Oxford, England, at Cortona, Italy, and at Monteverde, Costa Rica.

The total acreage of the university in 30 Georgia counties is 41,539 acres (168.10В km 2). The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state. The university has two satellite campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville. In addition to the main campuses in Athens with their approximately 470 buildings, the university has two smaller campuses located in Tifton and Griffin. Among public universities, the University of Georgia is one of the nation's top three producers of Rhodes Scholars over the past two decades. The university is classified among 'R1: Doctoral Universities вЂ“ Very high research activity,' and as having 'more selective' undergraduate admissions, the most selective admissions category, while the ACT Assessment Student Report places UGA admissions in the 'Highly Selective' category, the highest classification. The flagship school of the University System of Georgia, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public universities in the United States, and has been labeled one of the ' Public Ivies, ' a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. Founded in 1785, it is one of the oldest public universities in the United States. The University of Georgia ( UGA or Georgia) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia.

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