Colleges in Georgia
Solyo has full profiles for 12 colleges in Georgia: 7 public, 5 private nonprofit. The median family here pays $15,931 a year after grant aid, $5,634 below the national median. Half of these schools admit more than 64% of applicants. They sit across 7 cities, concentrated in Atlanta, Athens, Kennesaw.
What Georgia costs
Published in-state tuition at the median Georgia public university is $6,124 a year before aid. Residency is worth the most at Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, where an out-of-state family pays $22,426 more for the same degree.
After grants and scholarships the range runs from $10,945 at Valdosta State University to $49,430 at Savannah College of Art and Design. That spread is the reason a sticker price is a poor way to build a list in Georgia.
Why net price beats sticker price, and what an average one does and does not tell a particular family.
How selective Georgia schools are
Emory University admits 11% of applicants and Georgia State University-Perimeter College admits 91%. A list drawn only from the selective end of that range has no likely school in it, which is the most common mistake in a first draft.
The highest average SAT reported in Georgia is 1520 at Emory University.
Every Georgia college profile
Ordered by selectivity, most selective first.
- Emory UniversityAtlanta, Georgia · Private nonprofit11% acceptance · $22,585 net price · 1520 avg SAT
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main CampusAtlanta, Georgia · Public14% acceptance · $12,116 net price · 1480 avg SAT
- Spelman CollegeAtlanta, Georgia · Private nonprofit25% acceptance · $38,967 net price · 1220 avg SAT
- University of GeorgiaAthens, Georgia · Public38% acceptance · $13,936 net price · 1397 avg SAT
- Morehouse CollegeAtlanta, Georgia · Private nonprofit44% acceptance · $39,013 net price · 1090 avg SAT
- Georgia State UniversityAtlanta, Georgia · Public55% acceptance · $15,931 net price · 1076 avg SAT
- Berry CollegeMount Berry, Georgia · Private nonprofit64% acceptance · $22,320 net price · 1220 avg SAT
- Kennesaw State UniversityKennesaw, Georgia · Public69% acceptance · $15,048 net price · 1113 avg SAT
- Valdosta State UniversityValdosta, Georgia · Public72% acceptance · $10,945 net price · 1013 avg SAT
- Savannah College of Art and DesignSavannah, Georgia · Private nonprofit83% acceptance · $49,430 net price · 1173 avg SAT
- Georgia Southern UniversityStatesboro, Georgia · Public88% acceptance · $15,267 net price · 1053 avg SAT
- Georgia State University-Perimeter CollegeAtlanta, Georgia · Public91% acceptance · $11,453 net price · 919 avg SAT
Other South states
On median net price Georgia is the 4th most affordable of the 17 South states in this directory, and the 13th most accessible on median acceptance rate. In-state pricing makes the neighbouring states worth checking too.
- Texas (17)
- Florida (12)
- Virginia (12)
- North Carolina (11)
- Maryland (8)
- Tennessee (8)
- South Carolina (7)
- Alabama (7)
- Kentucky (5)
- Louisiana (3)
- Oklahoma (3)
- District of Columbia (2)
- Mississippi (2)
- Delaware (1)
- West Virginia (1)
- Arkansas (1)
Where to go next
- College search filter Georgia and every other state by major, cost and selectivity
- How to read these numbers what each figure on a profile measures
- All 10 HBCUs in Georgia admission rates, net price and graduate earnings
- Scholarship directory awards with published odds, filterable by state
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