(1,041,423) Georgia Tech maintains close ties to the industrial world Many of these connections are made through Georgia Tech's cooperative education and internship programs Georgia Tech's Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) established in 1912 as the Georgia Institute of Technology Cooperative Division operates the largest and fourth-oldest cooperative education program in the United States and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education the DoPP is charged with providing opportunities for students to gain real-world employment experience through four programs each targeting a different body of students the Undergraduate Cooperative Education Program is a five-year program in which undergraduate students alternating between semesters of formal instruction at Georgia Tech and semesters of full-time employment with their employers, 25 Tyler Flowers Fort McPherson Closed. . Higher education was available for young men in the North and most students were aspiring Protestant ministers the oldest colleges were New College (Harvard) College of New Jersey (Princeton) Collegiate School (Yale) and College of Rhode Island (Brown) Others were King's College (Columbia) the College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania) Queen's College (Rutgers) and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire South of Philadelphia there was only the College of William and Mary which trained the secular elite in Virginia especially aspiring lawyers. The student body consists of more than 29,000 graduate and undergraduate students (Fall 2017) and there are around 1,740 full-time academic faculty (Fall 2017) the student body at Georgia Tech is 69% male and 31% female (Fall 2017) Female enrollment has historically been low; however this is slowly changing due to the university's growing liberal arts programs and outreach programs to encourage more female high school students to consider careers in science and engineering as well as changes in the admissions process These include the "Women in Engineering" program and sponsorship of a chapter of the Society of Women Engineers For the fall of 2014 around 40% of incoming freshmen were female students; . . 7 Races Then an off day, 67/19 78/26 Shooting (15), Mountain Park (Gwinnett) (CDP) pop 11,554. Georgia 70.svg State Route 70 Source: 6.2 National protected areas 1990 6,478,216 18.6% Transportation Berkeley Lake pop 1,574.
Interstate 285 is the beltway which encircles the city and its immediate eastern suburbs It is commonly known as the Perimeter I-285 passes through Clayton Cobb Fulton and DeKalb Counties, Tournaments and events Move to Augusta The composition of religious affiliation in Georgia is 70% Protestant 9% Catholic 1% Mormon 1% Jewish 0.5% Muslim 0.5% Buddhist and 0.5% Hindu Atheists deists agnostics and other unaffiliated people make up 13% of the population the largest Christian denominations by number of adherents in 2010 were the Southern Baptist Convention with 1,759,317; the United Methodist Church with 619,394; and the Roman Catholic Church with 596,384 Non-denominational Evangelical Protestant had 566,782 members the Church of God (Cleveland Tennessee) has 175,184 members and the National Baptist Convention USA Inc has 172,982 members the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest Presbyterian body in the state with 300 congregations and 100,000 members the other large body Presbyterian Church in America had at its founding date 14 congregations and 2,800 members; in 2010 it counted 139 congregations and 32,000 members the Roman Catholic Church is noteworthy in Georgia's urban areas and includes the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Diocese of Savannah Georgia is home to the largest Hindu temple in the United States the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta located in the suburb city of Lilburn Georgia is home to several historical synagogues including the Temple (Atlanta) Congregation Beth Jacob (Atlanta) and Congregation Mickve Israel (Savannah) Chabad and the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute are also active in the state. . East Point pop 33,712 Province of New Jersey proprietary colony from 1664 crown colony from 1702 The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain 1864 Atlanta is home to professional franchises for five major team sports: the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer Atlanta has also recently added a professional box lacrosse team the Georgia Swarm of the National Lacrosse League and a professional field lacrosse team the Atlanta Blaze of Major League Lacrosse. Widespread farms produce peanuts corn and soybeans across middle and south Georgia the state is the number one producer of pecans in the world with the region around Albany in southwest Georgia being the center of Georgia's pecan production Gainesville in northeast Georgia touts itself as the Poultry Capital of the World Georgia is in the top five blueberry producers in the United States, Religion in Atlanta while historically centered on Protestant Christianity now involves many faiths as a result of the city and metro area's increasingly international population Protestant Christianity still maintains a strong presence in the city (63%) but in recent decades the Catholic Church has increased in numbers and influence because of new migrants in the region Metro Atlanta also has numerous ethnic or national Christian congregations including Korean and Indian churches the larger non-Christian faiths are Judaism Islam and Hinduism Overall there are over 1,000 places of worship within Atlanta, White-tailed (Virginia) deer are in nearly all counties the northern mockingbird and brown thrasher are among the 160 bird species that live in the state.
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