Established in 1910, the University of Georgia Graduate School administers and confers all professional, master's and doctoral degrees.

The school offers advanced degrees in over 130 areas of discipline and has 6,766 students and approximately 1,600 graduate faculty.

In addition to its administrative functions, the Graduate School provides professional development opportunities for students, including the Dean's Awards, the Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grants for doctoral students, Summer Doctoral Research Fellowships, the Emerging Leaders Program, the Three-Minute Thesis Competition, and the Interdisciplinary Certificate in University Teaching.

In recent years, the school has received both regional and national awards for excellence in graduate admissions, and has won competitive grants for research initiatives on doctoral completion and minority attrition at the university.

In 1910, the Board of Regents and Chancellor David Barrow formally established the Graduate School and appointed Dr. Willis Henry Bocock as its dean.

The Master of Arts alone included philosophy, math, education, history, political science, rhetoric, English literature, German, Latin, Greek, and Romance languages.

The graduate programs at the University of Georgia continue to rank among the top 100 in the nation, with programs in public affairs, veterinary medicine, printmaking, and multiple education specializations falling within the top 10 according to the U.S. News & World Report 2013 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools.

[9] The National Research Council’s 2010 report identified six University of Georgia doctoral programs that are among the best in the country.

[10] From the more than 5,000 doctoral programs ranked in 62 academic fields at 212 participating universities, University of Georgia programs in Food Science, Public Administration, Exercise Science, Forest Resources, Plant Biology, and Mass Communication ranked in the top 25 of their respective fields.