Rankings, Facts, & Figures

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Georgia Tech, the home of the Yellow Jackets, is the number seven 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 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

The university is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education. Over the past decade, overall research expenditures increased by over 80 percent, while federal research expenditures increased 129 percent. Georgia Tech now ranks among the top five in research expenditures among universities without a medical school. In addition, Georgia Tech has an estimated $1.8 billion annual impact within the state of Georgia, according to a 2008 University System of Georgia report.

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. In terms of producing African American engineering graduates, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education ranks Tech number one at the bachelor's level, number two at the master's level, and number one at the doctoral level. These impressive national rankings reflect the academic prestige long associated with the Georgia Tech curriculum.

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