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Comparable Schools'
Facilities Grades:
Quick StatsPopular Places to Chill
- North Campus
- Ramsey Center
- Starbucks (downtown)
- Tate Center
- Zell B. Miller Learning Center
College Prowler Take
UGA’s facilities are impressive, to say the least. The MLC is a major asset to the campus. Aside from computers, the MLC boasts 26 new state-of-the-art classrooms, 96 private group-study rooms with dry-erase boards, and wireless Internet access. The interior of the SLC is surprisingly elegant, and during finals week, the SLC is the place to be for many students—it is open 24 hours and is generally packed the entire time. The libraries are extremely large, with many areas to study. The main library also offers a few small theaters, where students watch cultural films and newer movies, as well as lounges where students can talk louder than in normal study areas.
The Tate Student Center is centrally located on campus and has been recently renovated with an expansion doubling its size. It houses a movie theater, a game room, dance rooms, a Barbarrito’s Restaurant, and the nation’s second-largest college radio station, WUOG 90.5. Ramsey is also very popular with students. There are aerobic rooms, gymnastics facilities, pools, a rock-climbing wall, state-of-the-art workout equipment, and badminton, basketball, racquetball, and volleyball courts at every turn. You can even sign up for a personal trainer. Aerobics classes fill up fast, and there is often a wait for an elliptical machine no matter what time you go. For its impressive size, Ramsey has a surprisingly small number of machines in the gym area. However, “Sports Illustrated” ranked Ramsey as the best college fitness facility in the nation in 2004, and students flock to it. In general, facilities are good, but some buildings are in need of renovation, including many of the science facilities on South Campus and some of the dorms. Students Speak Out
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Anonymous says:  |
I think the facilities are pretty...
I think the facilities are pretty good considering how big the school is. The places people go most, like the Tate Center, the SLC, and the Ramsey area probably are the best. |
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The SLC is probably the nicest...
The SLC is probably the nicest building I’ve ever been in on campus. There are marble steps, leather chairs, and a really nice library. I was actually pretty impressed by it all. |
Anonymous says: |
Some of the classrooms are really...
Some of the classrooms are really old, and the ones in Park Hall, for example, smell like a sweaty gym. The new rooms in the SLC are really nice, though, and have comfy chairs with lots of leg room. |
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I sometimes go swimming in the lap...
I sometimes go swimming in the lap pools at the Ramsey Center, and those are in pretty good shape. Ramsey in general is pretty nice, especially the courts, and the rock- climbing wall is pretty cool. |
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I think the new Student Learning...
I think the new Student Learning Center is a beautiful building and very functional. I love to go there to study and hang out, and the coffee shop was a great idea. |
FactsWhat To Do on Campus
There are often demonstrations around central campus at the Tate Student Center, or information fairs for students to stop in between classes. The Tate Center has plenty of seating for reading, studying, or talking with friends. There is also a game room with Ping Pong, pool, and arcade games. The Bulldog Café adjacent to Tate offers many options for lunch. The new Student Learning Center offers a coffeehouse with outdoor seating. North Campus is a very popular area for students to relax, nap, play guitar, read, or have a picnic.
Favorite Things To Do
Meet friends for lunch at Bulldog Café or hang out at the Student Learning Center (which has become the place to see and be seen), play ultimate Frisbee on the Myers quad, nap on North Campus, head downtown for lunch or a coffee, work out at Ramsey Center.
Movie Theater on Campus
- Tate Movie Theater in the Tate Student Center
Bar on Campus
- None, but downtown Athens, right across from North Campus, has dozens of bars.
Coffeehouse on Campus
- Jittery Joe’s Coffee, Zell B. Miller Learning Center
- Joe at the O, Oglethorpe House Dining Commons
- Sweet Java Brown’s, Red Clay Café
Did You Know?Soccer, volleyball and rhythmic gymnastics events for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta were held in UGA’s Stegeman Coliseum and Sanford Stadium.
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