While the College of Engineering is UGA’s newest college on campus, the discipline of engineering at UGA is quite old. To be exact the first graduating engineering class graduated in 1868.

Congratulations on your acceptance to UGA! You were accepted as an intended engineering student in the Engineering College. You will need to apply for engineering standing upon meeting application eligibility requirements in order to begin your major courses.

All UGA students who plan to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural, Biochemical, Biological, Civil, Computer Systems, Electrical and Electronics, Environmental, or Mechanical Engineering are initially admitted to the College of Engineering as intended-engineering majors. Students apply for engineering standing once they meet all application eligibility requirements, typically during their second year at UGA.

Engineering Standing Entrance Requirement 

Please utilize the Transfer Equivalency function located on the UGA Admissions website. Simply search for you institution to see how courses may transfer to UGA. The Transfer Equivalency Search lists courses from other institutions and UGA equivalents that have been researched for previously admitted and current UGA students. These listings are not comprehensive and may be subject to change without notice.

Upon acceptance to the University, a transfer student is welcome to contact the Academic Office to determine if you have already completed the required courses to apply for Engineering Standing.

Exposure to high-level math classes (preferably calculus), physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering courses *if available*

At the moment, we currently do not offer engineering minors. Within the next few years, we will slowly roll out a few engineering minors

A common minor our engineering students get is Computer Science. While other students also get certificates. Some of these certificates are in informatics, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and electrical mobility.

Your choice of major does not have an impact on a decision.

The median starting salary is $76,000.

While UGA does not have a major in Aerospace or Biomedical Engineering, students can pursue any one of our majors and get the necessary tools and knowledge to be able to land an internship or co-op with companies in those industries.

Our program mainly uses JAVA. If students want to learn how to program using Python, they can take our Introduction to Programming with Python