Facts & Figures

The historic Tech Tower

Georgia Tech, the home of the Yellow Jackets, is the No. 7 public university in the nation, according to the 2008 rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Georgia Tech is an innovative intellectual environment with more than 900 full-time instructional faculty and more than 19,000 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 increased by 84 percent to $355.3 million in 2006, while federal research expenditures increased 129 percent. Georgia Tech now ranks among the top five in research expenditures among universities without a medical school. In addition, Georgia Tech has an estimated $3.9 billion annual impact within the state of Georgia, according to a 2006 Strategic Economic Development study.

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. In addition, Georgia Tech's College of Engineering is consistently ranked in the nation's top five by U.S. News. In terms of producing African American engineering graduates, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education ranks Tech No. 1 at the doctoral level, and No. 2 at the bachelor's and master's levels for the 2006-07 academic year. These impressive national rankings reflect the academic prestige long associated with the Georgia Tech curriculum.

Tech's National Rankings

U.S. News & World Report

• No. 7 public university in the country
• No. 4 graduate engineering college
• No. 4 undergraduate engineering college
• No. 1 industrial engineering program
• 6 undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top 5
• 9 graduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10

Chronicle of Higher Education

Faculty Scholarly Productivity (2007)

• No. 1 in Materials Science & Engineering
• No. 8 in Engineering Mechanics
• No. 9 in Engineering (various disciplines)
• No. 10 in Systems Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bachelor's

• No. 2 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 2 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to all categories of minority students
• No. 4 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to Asian American students

Master's

• No. 2 in engineering master's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 13 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Hispanic students
• No. 6 in engineering master's degrees awarded to all categories of minority students
• No. 12 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Asian American students

Doctoral

• No. 1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 3 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to all categories of minority students
• No. 6 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Hispanic students
• No. 8 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Asian American students