Augusta University history

MCG moved into a grand new building on Telfair St in 1835, on property adjoining the Academy.

When the Civil War began in 1861, both institutions suspended classes as faculty and students took roles in the war efforts.

When the war ended in 1865, MCG resumed classes, although ARC served as headquarters for federal troops for two more years before resuming operation.

The medical college began admitting women in 1922, while the junior college was co-ed from the beginning.

As the national junior college movement gained momentum, ARC’s fifth year evolved in 1925 into the first chartered junior college in the state—the Junior College of Augusta.

When the University System of Georgia was created in 1932, it absorbed control of UGA and its medical department and the medical college became the first of Augusta’s higher education institutions to become part of the USG.

Doctor Margaret Wong Mola was admitted to MCG’s School of Medicine in 1943 — one of only five women admitted that year — and became MCG’s first Asian American student.

The JCA joined the USG in 1958, becoming Augusta College.

In 1989, student housing units opened the Forest Hills Campus.

Christenberry Fieldhouse, which opened in 1991, became home to the Augusta volleyball, women’s basketball and men’s basketball programs and houses offices for 11 of the Jags’ 13 sports.

In 1996, Augusta College acquired university status as Augusta State University.

In 2011, MCG became Georgia Health Sciences University to reflect its broad mission in many fields of health sciences.

The first of the two buildings, the Hull McKnight Building, opened July 10, 2018.