College of Environment and Design
On Second Reference
The environment and design college or the college.
Category: Schools and Colleges
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
On Second Reference
FACS, the family and consumer sciences college or the college.
College of Public Health
On Second Reference
The public health college or the college.
College of Veterinary Medicine
It is housed in the veterinary medicine building and several other buildings.
On Second Reference
Veterinary college or the college.
colleges and schools
Capitalize the full, formal names of UGA schools and colleges. If the college is named after someone, include the honoree’s last name; first names and initials need be included only in the most formal settings, such as Honors Day or Commencement programs. Where possible, use full names on first reference and informal names thereafter. See entries for the individual colleges and schools for specific second references.
On first reference in written publications for external audiences, preface the name of the school or college with “the University of Georgia” unless the full university name has been used earlier. On second reference, informal names (law school, education college, veterinary college) are lower case.
Always use chronological order by founding date for formal listing of the university’s schools and colleges:
- Franklin College of Arts and Sciences (1801)
- College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (1859)
- School of Law (1859)
- College of Pharmacy (1903)
- Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources (1906)
- Mary Frances Early College of Education (1908)
- Graduate School (1910)
- C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business (1912)
- Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication (1915)
- College of Family and Consumer Sciences (1933)
- College of Veterinary Medicine (1946)
- School of Social Work (1964)
- College of Environment + Design (1969)
- School of Public and International Affairs (2001)
- College of Public Health (2005)
- Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology (2007)
- College of Engineering (2012)
- Jere W. Morehead Honors College (2021)
The Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership was established in 2009. Although it is not a school or college, it is headed by a campus dean.
The distinction between schools and colleges is, in general, one of breadth: colleges consist of multiple academic units, schools of one or two. Do not call a college a school.
Several “schools” are in fact units (departments or groups of departments) within one of these colleges or schools; capitalize them. The Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the Lamar Dodd School of Art are units of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; the Tull School of Accounting is a department of the Terry College of Business. The School of Marine Programs coordinates several separate programs in marine sciences.
colleges and universities
For proper spelling and punctuation of the names of other colleges and universities, including treatment of multiple campuses, consult the appendix in the Merriam-Webster New Collegiate Dictionary or check the institution’s website. Use the full, formal name on first reference; abbreviations and acronyms may be used in subsequent references. Beware mixing up athletic nicknames and academic institutions.
College of Engineering
On Second Reference
The engineering college or the college.
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
On Second Reference
“CAES” is acceptable as second reference for internal audiences only. For external audiences, “the college” is acceptable on second reference.
Mary Frances Early College of Education
On Second Reference
Use the education college or the college on second and subsequent references.
C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business
Full, formal name of the business college; use Terry College of Business in all but the most formal writing.
On Second Reference
Terry College, the business college or the college.