re: MSN: Kansas to Big Ten may be 'imminent,' according to insider

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University of Georgia DOES have a medical school.

The Medical College of Georgia (often referred to as MCG) is the flagship medical school of the University System of Georgia, the state's only public medical school, and one of the top 10 largest medical schools in the United States.

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The Medical College of Georgia doesn't count in the institutional statistics for UGA, as it's officially a part of Augusta University.

You're confusing the University System of Georgia, which has 26 institutions, with UGA.

You are correct that a lot of southern states have medical colleges that are in different cities from their flagship institutions. In some cases, they are a part of that institution (e.g., Arkansas, LSU).

In other cases, however, they are either separate entities (there is a public Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston) or the top research-oriented medical school is a part of a different institution, such as the case with UAB.

This situation is actually one of the reasons why both Alabama and Georgia have a difficult time making a strong case for AAU inclusion, while institutions like USF (which does has a very strong medical school) live under the illusion that they'll be invited one day. I'd honestly be curious what Alabama's institutional stats would look like if they had the UAB medical school. I remember seeing that UAB received about $600 million in federal grant funding back in 2019.

For those who are curious, you can find institutional rankings of NSF funding here:

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And NIH funding here, although the list is a little more complex due to all the private entities:

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FWIW, these rankings matter a lot more to people working in higher ed than the silly US News rankings that get trotted out frequently.