Facts & Figures

The historic Tech Tower

Georgia Tech is an innovative intellectual environment with more than 900 full-time instructional faculty and more than 21,500 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 nearly doubled, increasing 93 percent to $655 million in 2011, while federal research expenditures increased nearly 158 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 $3 billion annual impact on the metro Atlanta economy, according to a 2011 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, based on the most recent rankings for 2011. 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
• 8 undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top 5
• 11 graduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10
• "Programs to Look For" Listing: Internships and Co-ops, Senior Capstone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Top Degree Producers (2012)

Bachelor's

• No. 1 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to All Minority Students
• No. 2 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to African Americans
• No. 3 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to Asian Americans
• No. 8 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to Hispanics
• No. 8 in Computer/Information Sciences Degrees Awarded to Native Americans

Master's

• No. 4 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to African Americans
• No. 4 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to Hispanics
• No. 4 in Physical Sciences Degrees Awarded to African Americans
• No. 5 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to All Minority Students
• No. 6 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to Asian Americans
• No. 10 in Physical Sciences Degrees Awarded to All Minority Students

Doctoral

• No. 1 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to African Americans
• No. 1 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to Asian Americans
• No. 1 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to Hispanics
• No. 1 in Engineering Degrees Awarded to All Minority Students
• No. 7 in Physical Sciences Degrees Awarded to Asian Americans
• No. 8 in Computer/Information Sciences Degrees Awarded to Asian Americans