Georgia Tech offers 47 master’s degree programs, with degree options in virtually every science- and engineering-related discipline, as well as technology-focused degrees in areas such as business administration, public policy, international affairs, economics, and more. Our master’s programs offer excellent preparation for pursuing a doctoral degree or for employment in the academic, government, or corporate arenas.
College of Architecture
Master of Architecture
Focus: preparing students for the professional practice of architecture, providing flexibility for those who have an undergraduate degree in architecture as well as those who have a degree in a field other than architecture.
Master of City and Regional Planning
Focus: preparing students to excel as professionals capable of understanding and resolving complex urban planning problems through a curriculum that gives students a broad understanding of the urban and regional environment as well as a foundation of skills needed to plan for this environment.
Master of Industrial Design
Focus: offering an inclusive design approach that is dedicated to the creation and development of products, systems, services, and environments that are usable as well as responsive to individual and collective needs in an increasingly diverse population.
Master of Science in Architecture
Focus: offering a non-professional program of advanced study oriented toward advanced practice, scholarship, and research.
Master of Science in Building Construction and Facility Management
Focus: providing management-based education for industry professionals through a holistic approach to business processes that integrates coursework, seminars, and hands-on learning and equips them with the resources they need for leadership in their professional careers.
Master of Science in Geographic Information Science and Technology
Focus: preparing students for the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of information that is spatially referenced to locations on, above, and below the surface of the earth.
Master of Science in Music Technology
Focus: examining how recent technological developments in areas such as music recording, compression, distribution, and playback have fundamentally changed musical practices and preparing students to meet the need in industry and academia for music and audio technologists able to design, develop, and creatively employ the next generation of musical performances, products, and services.
Master of Science in Urban Design
Focus: expanding upon students’ previous professional education and experience as architects, landscape architects, city planners, or civil engineers to prepare them to enter urban design practices either in private firms or public agencies.
College of Computing
Master of Science in Bioengineering
Focus: integrating engineering principles with research in the life sciences to improve health, the environment, and engineering applications.
Master of Science in Computational Science and Engineering
Focus: combining the knowledge, skills, and practices associated with the study of computer-based models of natural phenomena and engineered systems with integrated principles from mathematics, computer science, and engineering to be able to create significant computational artifacts (e.g., software).
Master of Science in Computer Science
Focus: expanding upon the fundamentals of programming and computational theory to prepare students for highly productive careers in industry.
Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction
Focus: providing students with the practical, interdisciplinary skills and theoretical understanding they will need to become leaders in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the computer interfaces of the future.
Master of Science in Information Security
Focus: examining issues surrounding the impact of information security on our lives, private citizens’ concern for privacy, security risks to business and government, and the impact of laws and public policy.
College of Engineering
Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development
Focus: bringing together students from mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, human factors, systems analysis, and manufacturing backgrounds to learn and work in multidisciplinary teams on clinically relevant needs for new medical techniques and products.
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Focus: providing a master’s-level curriculum that allows specialization in the areas of aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, flight mechanics and control, propulsion and combustion, structural mechanics and materials behavior, and system design and optimization.
Master of Science in Bioengineering
Focus: integrating engineering principles with research in the life sciences to improve health, the environment, and engineering applications.
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
Focus: integrating advanced study with specialization options in the areas of catalysis, reaction kinetics, complex fluids, microelectronics, microfluidics, optimization, bioinformatics, polymers, sustainable development, pulp and paper, separations, carbon capture, biomedicine, solar energy, thermodynamics, MEMS, environmental science, reaction engineering, cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, biofuels, air quality, modeling, and process synthesis and control.
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Focus: integrating advanced study with specialization options in the areas of construction engineering; environmental engineering; environmental fluid mechanics and water resources; geosystems engineering; structural engineering, mechanics, and materials; and transportation systems engineering
Master of Science in Computational Science and Engineering
Focus: combining the knowledge, skills, and practices associated with the study of computer-based models of natural phenomena and engineered systems with integrated principles from mathematics, computer science, and engineering to be able to create significant computational artifacts (e.g., software).
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Focus: building on technical interest areas including bioengineering, computer engineering, digital signal processing, electrical energy, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, and telecommunications.
Master of Science in Engineering Science and Mechanics
Focus: providing a curriculum of advanced study to engineering and physical science majors with interests in fundamental mechanics and engineering science.
Master of Science in Enterprise Transformation
Focus: addressing the enterprise as a system and considering the individual, organizational, social, and technological phenomena associated with designing, managing, and transforming large enterprises.
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
Focus: advancing the study of scientific disciplines and engineering principles used to address emerging environmental issues such as sustainable air, water, and land resources; human health; and environmental restoration.
Master of Science in Health Systems
Focus: developing, applying, and disseminating new knowledge with respect to the analysis, planning, implementation, demonstration, and evaluation of operational and managerial systems for the delivery of health care services to the public.
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
Focus: offering an advanced curriculum exploring the disciplines of probability, optimization, statistics, computing, economics, and psychology.
Master of Science in International Logistics
Focus: gaining a global perspective through international immersion and extensive industry engagement.
Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
Focus: advancing study and research in the development of new materials for the next generation of engineering applications: biomaterials, nanomaterials, ceramics, metals, polymers, and electronic materials.
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: advancing study and research for students with backgrounds in engineering, mechanics, mathematics, physical sciences, and life sciences.
Master of Science in Medical Physics
Focus: examining the application of radiation to medicine, particularly in the diagnosis and treatment of human disease.
Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering
Focus: advancing study and research in topics such as nuclear reactor core design, reactor systems engineering, nuclear power economics, reactor operations, radiation sources and detection instruments, radiation transport, radiation protection, criticality safety, regulatory requirements, and radioactive materials management.
Master of Science in Operations Research
Focus: advancing study and research emphasizing topics such as deterministic optimization, probabilistic models and their applications, simulation, and mathematical statistics.
Master of Science in Paper Science and Engineering
Focus: advancing multidisciplinary study around engineering and science disciplines involved in the production of paper, tissue, and other products from natural fiber.
Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance
Focus: providing students with the practical skills and theoretical understanding they need to become experts in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of models used by the financial sector to structure transactions, manage risk, and construct investment strategies.
Master of Science in Statistics
Focus: advancing study and research on topics such as mathematical statistics, design and analysis of experiments, and statistical modeling and regression analysis.
Master of Science in Supply Chain Engineering
Focus: meeting the growing demand for business-savvy engineers who can design and synchronize highly complex global supply chains through study and research in analytical methods, supply chain engineering, and enterprise management.
Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering
Focus: assisting experienced professionals in building and expanding their systems engineering expertise by enhancing the skills and knowledge they need in a competitive, global environment.
College of Sciences
Master of Science in Bioinformatics
Focus: advancing study and research emphasizing computer science; advanced molecular biology and biochemistry; statistics; and bioinformatics.
Master of Science in Biology
Focus: advancing study and research in ecology, evolution, and behavior; molecular and cell biology; and computational biology and bioinformatics.
Master of Science in Chemistry
Focus: advancing multidisciplinary study in biomolecular structure, molecular biophysics, computational and theoretical chemistry, materials chemistry, nanochemistry, bio-organic chemistry, photochemistry and photobiology, polymer chemistry, sensors, and environmental chemistry.
Master of Science in Computational Science and Engineering
Focus: combining the knowledge, skills, and practices associated with the study of computer-based models of natural phenomena and engineered systems with integrated principles from mathematics, computer science, and engineering to be able to create significant computational artifacts (e.g., software).
Master of Science in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Focus: advancing study and research on topics such as atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and clouds; dynamics of weather and climate; geochemistry; geophysics; oceanography; paleoclimate; planetary science; and remote sensing.
Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction
Focus: providing students with the practical, interdisciplinary skills and theoretical understanding they will need to become leaders in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the computer interfaces of the future.
Master of Science in Mathematics
Focus: advancing study and research on topics such as algebra, analysis, differential equations, geometry, numerical analysis, probability, quantitative finance, statistics, topology, and methods of applied mathematics.
Master of Science in Paper Science and Engineering
Focus: advancing multidisciplinary study around engineering and science disciplines involved in the production of paper, tissue, and other products from natural fiber.
Master of Science in Physics
Focus: advancing study and research in topics such as the physical principles of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, and the quantum theory that governs physical phenomena at the microscopic level of molecules, atoms, and nuclei.
Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics
Focus: advancing study and research as well as incorporating rotations at local hospitals, medical clinics, and prosthetics and orthotics patient care facilities under the guidance of a credentialed preceptor.
Master of Science in Psychology
Focus: advancing study and research in areas such as cognition and brain science, cognitive aging, engineering psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and quantitative psychology.
Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance
Focus: providing students with the practical skills and theoretical understanding they need to become experts in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of models used by the financial sector to structure transactions, manage risk, and construct investment strategies.
Master of Science in Statistics
Focus: advancing study and research on topics such as mathematical statistics, design and analysis of experiments, and statistical modeling and regression analysis.
Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business
Master of Business Administration
Focus: providing a professional management education for students of all educational backgrounds via an innovative and rigorous program with a technical and quantitative orientation.
Master of Business Administration - Global Business
Focus: training executives to assume leadership positions in businesses that have global aspirations.
Master of Business Administration in Management of Technology
Focus: preparing students to leverage their technology backgrounds for competitive advantage as they learn to cope with the challenges presented by rapid innovation, shorter product life cycles, and emerging technologies.
Master of Science in Management
Focus: providing a specially tailored master’s-level curriculum for students who may not be best served by the traditional MBA curriculum.
Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance
Focus: providing students with the practical skills and theoretical understanding they need to become experts in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of models used by the financial sector to structure transactions, manage risk, and construct investment strategies.
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Master of Science in Digital Media
Focus: offering a studio-based curriculum that places digital design within technical, cultural, aesthetic, and historical contexts, and providing students with a humanities-based professional education for the digital age.
Master of Science in Economics
Focus: advancing study and research grounded in applied economic theory and econometrics.
Master of Science in History and Sociology of Technology and Science
Focus: developing an understanding of technology and science within a broad social and historical context.
Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction
Focus: providing students with the practical, interdisciplinary skills and theoretical understanding they will need to become leaders in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the computer interfaces of the future.
Master of Science in International Affairs
Focus: advancing study and research in international relations theory, comparative politics, international political economy, international security, and empirical research methods.
Master of Science in Public Policy
Focus: examining areas in which either the consequences of scientific and technological activity have significant public policy implications, or technical and scientific information is a significant input to the policy-making process.
