Georgia Institute of Technology
| Address: | Georgia Institute of Technology
225 North Avenue, NW
Atlanta, GA 30332 |
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| Type: | Research University |
| Phone: | Main: 404-894-2000 Admissions: 404-894-4154 Financial Aid: 404-894-4160 Compliance, Ethics, and Reporting Hotline: 866-294-5565 |
| Website: | www.gatech.edu |
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Institution Overview
Located in the heart of Atlanta, the Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's leading research universities. The campus is located on 450 rolling, tree-lined acres in Atlanta and in the shadow of a majestic skyline largely designed by architects who are Georgia Tech alumni. The Institute has a strong international presence through a campus in Metz, France; an applied research facility in Athlone, Ireland; and its Shanghai Initiative, a degree program partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The Institute is consistently recognized for academic excellence. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Georgia Tech in the top 10 public universities in the nation and the College of Engineering was ranked within the top five nationally among all colleges. Programs in public policy, computer science, physics, and architecture continue to be top ranked nationally. Research activity reached an all-time high in 2007 with $473 million in expenditures, and at the end of the fiscal year, the Georgia Tech Research Corporation held ownership of 446 patents.
Tech enrolls 18,000 of the brightest students in the nation and from around the world in its six colleges: Architecture, Computing, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Engineering, Sciences, and Management. It has the fourth highest percentage of National Merit Scholars and the highest percentage of National Achievement Scholars among public institutions in the U.S. They come to Georgia Tech from Georgia and the 50 states, plus 120 countries to enroll in one of 35 undergraduate and 78 graduate programs. The range of programs includes architecture, computing, engineering and management, policy and international affairs, biomedical engineering, and liberal arts. The student body is diverse, with an average age of 22 and a 38 percent minority and international student enrollment.
Students also have an active life outside of the classroom while at Georgia Tech. They can choose from a vast array of cultural, social, and recreational opportunities to keep them occupied when they're not in class. More than 10,000 students participate in 300-plus clubs, organizations, honor societies, fraternities, sororities, and other activities.
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets compete in 17 intercollegiate sports at the NCAA Division I level as members of the Atlantic Coast conference. Tech student-athletes excel in the classroom as well as on the playing field, with one-third of them making the dean's list.
The Georgia Institute of Technology was founded in 1885 as the centerpiece of Georgia's plan for industrial resurgence. For more than 120 years, its students and alumni have been successful in the classroom, on the playing fields, and in the boardrooms of the U.S. and throughout the world.