The Advanced Academy of Georgia was an Early-Entrance-to-College Program at the University of West Georgia that admitted high school students predominantly in their Junior and Senior years. The program allowed students to gain concurrent high school and college credit while living full-time on campus.

The Advanced Academy began as the brainchild of Dr. Beheruz N. Sethna, President of West Georgia College, in late 1994. It opened for the 1995-1996 academic year under the administration of Dr. Donald Wagner, the first Dean of the Honors College. In the first year of the program, there were 21 students enrolled. Dr. Sethna often participated in the Academy's various activities while also serving as President of the University. At the time of its inception, the Advanced Academy was one of only 10 programs in the country to allow early admittance to a university/college with the students living fulltime on campus.

The Academy was one of several programs within the UWG Honors College. Therefore, students enrolled in the Academy were automatically enrolled in the Honors College and were required to take honors classes and fulfill other Honors College requirements.

Advanced Academy students were, for the majority of the program's tenure, housed in Gunn Hall on the southeast edge of campus. Events for Academy students, such as cookouts, sporting events (the yearly decathlon), dances, and socials, were held at Gunn Hall and at the Honors House. In Gunn Hall, students resided separated by gender and supervised by Honors College faculty and staff as well as student employees who also provided residential services.

The students who attended the Advanced Academy often received financial assistance through grants and scholarships. Originally, tuition for the majority of students was funded through Pell Grants offered by the State. However, in 2002, the State of Georgia rescinded these grants for Advanced Academy students, whereupon funding had to be obtained from other sources. Honors College faculty members, including Kate Theobald, Laura Lamb, Pat Hughes, and Donald Wagner, worked to obtain a large majority of the funding needed to cover the tuition of Academy Students who lost their Pell Grants. In later years, more consistent funding was obtained through the HOPE-ACCEL program.

The Advanced Academy accepted its final class of students in the 2015-2016 academic year. This last class graduated in 2017, whereupon the program came to an official end.