Facts & Figures

The historic Tech Tower

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.

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 bachelor's level for the 2007-08 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

Chronicle of Higher Education

Faculty Scholarly Productivity (2007)

• No. 1 in Materials Science & Engineering
• No. 3 in Architecture
• No. 3 in Information Technology/Information Systems
• No. 8 in Engineering Mechanics
• No. 9 in Engineering (various disciplines)
• No. 10 in Systems Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bachelor's (2009)

• No. 1 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 (2009)

• No. 2 in engineering master's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 2 in architecture master's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 5 in physical sciences master's degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 6 in engineering master's degrees awarded to all minority students
• No. 8 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Hispanic students
• No. 8 in physical sciences master's degrees awarded to all minority students
• No. 9 in architecture master's degrees awarded to all minority students
• No. 10 in architecture master's degrees awarded to Asian American students

Doctoral (2009)

• No. 1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to African American students
• No. 2 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Hispanic students
• No. 3 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to all minority students
• No. 8 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Asian American students