ABOUT GEORGIA TECH
With more than a century of excellence in education, research, and innovation behind it, the Georgia Institute of Technology has entered a new era. Building upon its reputation as a leading technological university, Georgia Tech has expanded its vision by reshaping the campus. From 2002 through 2004, Georgia Tech opened the largest number of new facilities in its history, most notably Technology Square, a multi-use complex in the Midtown Atlanta business community. The goal is to create an environment where students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to build relationships with the surrounding community and the world.
Georgia Tech's enrollment includes more than 16,600 students from every state, and more than 2,900 international students from 122 countries. The campus covers 450 acres in Midtown Atlanta. Through the colleges of Architecture, Computing, Management, Engineering, Liberal Arts (Ivan Allen College), and Sciences, Tech offers 31 undergraduate majors, 51 master's programs, and 31 doctoral programs. Tech also offers preparatory programs for law, veterinary, and medical schools. Tech's goal is to continue offering the best choices and options for students who seek the superb technological education that only Georgia Tech can provide.
The Institute employs 801 full-time instructional faculty members, more than 95 percent of whom hold doctoral degrees. Twenty-five professors are members of the National Academy of Engineering—the seventh highest in the nation. In 2003, young faculty members won eleven CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation, bringing the total number of recipients on the Tech faculty to eighty-three. Other faculty members continue to win prestigious awards and honors in their fields.
Georgia Tech's students are among the nation's brightest young people. In the 2002-03 academic year, Tech enrolled the second highest percentage of National Merit Scholars and the third highest percentage of National Achievement Scholars of all publicly supported institutions in the United States. More than 4,000 students graduated during the 2002-03 academic year, including the highest number of bachelor's and master's recipients ever. During the past few years, Tech students have been awarded many prestigious scholarships, including the Rhodes, Fulbright, Marshall, Churchill, Truman, Gates Cambridge, and Goldwater scholarships.
Higher education plays an important role in Atlanta's culture and economy, and it is one of the top U.S. cities where minorities come to attend institutions of higher education and to succeed in their careers. Georgia Tech is no exception. Minorities now comprise 35 percent of the Georgia Tech student population, with Hispanics becoming the fastest growing minority group.
Georgia Tech is the South's largest industrial and engineering research agency, conducting both pure and applied research through its academic colleges and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. More than 100 interdisciplinary research centers located on campus explore areas such as nuclear medicine, environmental resources, biotechnology, microelectronics, polymers, materials handling, international strategy and policy, health systems, fusion, and construction.
Through its dedication to intellectual excellence, Georgia Tech continues to provide quality education, service, and research for the benefit of all its students and the larger community.
For more information, visit the Georgia Tech Web site.