Rankings & Reputation
FACTS & FIGURES
Georgia Tech, the home of the Yellow Jackets, is the No. 9 public university in the nation, according to 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 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education, receiving more than $355 million in research awards in fiscal 2005. In 2004, Georgia Tech helped attract more than $112 million in new capital investment and helped create or save more than 11,000 jobs statewide. The Georgia Tech mascot is Buzz, and the official school colors are white and gold.
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. Black Issues in Higher Education ranks Tech as the No. 1 producer of African American engineering graduates at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. 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. 9 public university in the country
- No. 4 graduate engineering college
- No. 6 undergraduate engineering college
- No. 1 industrial engineering program
- 9 undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10
- 8 graduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10
Black Issues in Higher Education
Bachelor's
- 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. 5 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to Asian American students
Master's
- No. 1 in engineering master's degrees awarded to African American students
- No. 9 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Hispanic students
- No. 12 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Asian American students
- No. 7 in physical sciences master's degrees awarded to African American students
Doctoral
- No. 1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to African American students
- No. 2 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to all categories of minority students
- No. 8 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Asian American students