Georgia Institute Of Technology-Main Campus

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a large suburb.

Overview

The Georgia Institute of Technology, also referred to as Georgia Tech, or simply Tech, is a public, coeducational, research university in Atlanta, Georgia providing a focused, technologically based education.

The main campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of Atlanta.

The university was founded in 1885 as a trade school, the Georgia School of Technology, signaling the beginning of the South's transformation from an agrarian society to an industrial economy.

In 1948, the school assumed its present name. Women were admitted in 1952, and nine years later, Georgia Tech became the first university in the Deep South to admit African American students without a court order.

Georgia Tech is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & World Report's listing of America's top ten public universities. In addition, the College of Engineering is consistently ranked in the nation's top five by U.S. News.

Overall research expenditures reached $525 million in 2008--putting Georgia Tech among the top 10 in research expenditures among universities without a medical school.

The colleges under the auspices of Georgia Tech are as follows:

• College of Architecture
• College of Computing
• College of Engineering
• College of Liberal Arts
• College of Management
• College of Sciences

Georgia Tech's sports teams are known as the Yellow Jackets. Their mascot is named Buzz the Bee./p>

The university sponsors various intramural sports, including football, basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, swimming, diving, volleyball, and golf.

Among Georgia Tech's famous alumni are Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Michael Arad, designer architect of World Trade Center Memorial in New York City; Cecil B. Day, founder of Days Inn Hotels; Sam Nunn, former U.S. Senator and CEO of Nuclear Threat Initiative; Sandra Magnus, NASA astronaut, flight engineer of Expedition 18; actor Randolph Scott; best-selling romance novelist Nicole Jordan; and Arthur Murray, dance instructor and businessman.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in engineering, architecture and planning, computer science and engineering, and science.
• High faculty salary.
• Large number of students.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• High male/female ratio.
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• High percentage of students are from out-of-state.
• Superior share of faculty on tenure track.
• Good faculty-to-student ratio.

School characteristics:

• The school is public.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.
• Athlete financial aid is awarded.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 19,413 in 2009-2010 (20,127 full-time equivalent).

About 68% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 32% of the class.

Undergrads are 21% of enrolled students and graduate students are 79%.

Students under 25 years old represent 77% of the student body. About 1% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 100% are full-time and 0% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

Georgia Tech provides on-campus housing for 9,653 of its 20,127 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010).

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Atlantic Coast Conference for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 227 male students received the aid (men were 68% of those receiving aid) and 108 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 32% of students receiving such aid) .

Graduate School Focus

Georgia Tech offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship).

The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral (No Medical/Veterinary).

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (272 awarded)

• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
• Architecture and Related Services
• City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (657 awarded)

• Business Administration and Management
• Business Administration, Management and Operations
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Finance and Financial Management Services
• Logistics and Materials Management

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (556 awarded)

• Computer Engineering
• Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
• Computer and Information Sciences

DESIGN (54 awarded)

• Industrial Design

ENGINEERING (2,756 awarded)

• Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Engineering Mechanics
• Engineering
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Operations Research
• Textile Sciences and Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (30 awarded)

• Public Policy Analysis

LIBERAL ARTS (155 awarded)

• History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• International Relations and Affairs
• International/Global Studies
• Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies

MATHEMATICS (68 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDIA (42 awarded)

• Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (11 awarded)

• Health/Health Care Administration/Management

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (10 awarded)

• Orthotist/Prosthetist

MEDICINE (17 awarded)

• Health/Medical Physics

MUSIC (4 awarded)

• Music

SCIENCE (378 awarded)

• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
• Physics
• Science, Technology and Society

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (52 awarded)

• Industrial and Organizational Psychology