Facts & Figures

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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 doubled, increasing 100 percent to $611 million in 2010, while federal research expenditures increased nearly 200 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 $2.15 billion annual impact on the metro Atlanta economy, according to a 2010 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. 2 at both the doctoral and bachelor's levels for the 2009-10 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. 5 undergraduate engineering college
• No. 1 industrial engineering program
• 7 undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top 5
• 10 graduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bachelor's (2011)

• 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
• No. 9 in architecture bachelor's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 10 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to Hispanic students

Master's (2011)

• No. 4 in architecture master's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 6 in engineering master's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 6 in engineering master's degrees awarded to all categories of minority students
• No. 8 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Asian American students
• No. 8 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Hispanic students

Doctoral (2011)

• No. 2 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 2 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Hispanic students
• No. 2 in physical sciences doctoral degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 4 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to all categories of minority students
• No. 6 in computer/information sciences doctoral degrees awarded to Asian American students