College Consensus, a unique new college ranking website, has published their ranking of the Best Colleges in Georgia 2018 at https://www.collegeconsensus.com/ranking/best-colleges-ga/.

To identify the Best Colleges in Georgia for 2018, College Consensus combined the latest results from the most respected college ranking systems with thousands of real student reviews to produce a unique consensus score for each school. According to College Consensus founder Jeremy Alder, "Like Rotten Tomatoes does for movies, College Consensus gathers college rankings and reviews from around the web and distills them into a simple, easy to understand score so students can quickly and easily compare schools. It is the ranking of all rankings, so to speak." Learn more about the College Consensus rankings methodology at http://www.collegeconsensus.com/about/.

To help prospective Georgia students evaluate the higher education options that are right for their individual needs, College Consensus identified the best-ranked colleges in the Peach State (presented here in alphabetical order):

Agnes Scott College - Decatur, GA

Albany State University - Albany, GA

Augusta University - Augusta, GA

Berry College - Mount Berry, GA

Brenau University - Gainesville, GA

Columbus State University - Columbus, GA

Covenant College - Lookout Mountain, GA

Emory University - Atlanta, GA

Georgia College & State University - Milledgeville, GA

Georgia Southern University - Statesboro, GA

Georgia State University - Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech - Atlanta, GA

Mercer University - Macon, GA

Morehouse College - Atlanta, GA

Oglethorpe University - Atlanta, GA

Piedmont College - Demorest, GA

Point University - West Point, GA

Reinhardt University - Waleska, GA

Shorter University - Rome, GA

Spelman College - Atlanta, GA

Toccoa Falls College - Toccoa, GA

Truett McConnell University - Cleveland, GA

University of Georgia - Athens, GA

University of North Georgia - Dahlonega, GA

Wesleyan College - Macon, GA

Georgia's history of higher education is a story of triumphs of innovation and rebirth. Georgia - the last of the original 13 British colonies in America - was supposed to be a progressive exemplar, giving debtors the opportunity to go to the New World and start their lives over again in the most modern cities the 17th century could offer. Instead, it became one of the central states in the Civil War, and was devastated beyond any other of the rebel states, with its most prosperous cities burned to the ground without the economic infrastructure to rebuild. However, rebuild they did, and Atlanta in particular became a model of the New South and new American city, diverse and sprawling and full of energy. That energy is reflected in Georgia's colleges and universities, from the oldest chartered public university in America - the University of Georgia - to Georgia Tech, the post-Civil War symbol of modernity and rebirth, to the two most prestigious historically black colleges in the US, Morehouse and Spelman.