Georgia Tech is an innovative intellectual environment with more than 900 full-time instructional faculty and more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
The university is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education. Over the past decade, overall research expenditures have nearly doubled, increasing 99 percent to $525 million in 2008, while federal research expenditures increased 150 percent. Georgia Tech now ranks among the top 10 in research expenditures among universities without a medical school. In addition, Georgia Tech has an estimated $2 billion annual impact on the metro Atlanta economy, according to a 2008 study.
Georgia Tech Rankings
Year after year, Georgia Tech is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & World Report's listing of America's top ten public universities. These impressive national rankings reflect the academic prestige long associated with the Georgia Tech curriculum.
- #1 - Engineering Bachelor’s Degrees awarded to African American Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education - #2 - Engineering Bachelor’s Degrees awarded all categories of
minority students
Diverse: Issues in High Education - #3 - Best value college
SmartMoney magazine - #3 - Best Undergraduate Civil Engineering program
U.S. News & World Report - #3 - Best Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program
U.S. News & World Report - #4 - Best Undergraduate Engineering College
U.S. News & World Report - #4 – Engineering Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded to Asian American students
Diverse: Issues in High Education - #5 - Best Undergraduate Electrical Engineering program
U.S. News & World Report - #6 - Best Undergraduate Computer Engineering program
U.S. News & World Report - #7 - Among public universities in the country
U.S. News & World Report - #15 - Among “Top 100 Best Value Public Colleges”
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