The University of Georgia’s six year graduation rate increased to a new record-level this year. UGA’s six year graduation rate is at an all time high at eighty-four point six percent up from eighty-three point two percent in 2013. Since UGA began tracking graduation rates in 1974, only fifty-five percent of students graduated in six years. More impressively, UGA’s record rate is fifty percent higher than the national average of fifty-nine percent.