Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, Tech, or GT) is among the best universities in the United States and the world. For more than a decade, Georgia Tech remains in the top ten public universities in the United States. In 2012, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Georgia Tech-19 in the United States and 25 in the world. Engineering program was ranked 9th in the world. In 2015, Tech undergraduate engineering program is ranked 4th and graduate engineering program is ranked 6th by US News & World Report. Tech engineering degree programs including Aerospace (2nd), Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Industrial, Materials, and Techniques. Engineering technology program graduates include Aerospace, Biomedical / Bioengineering, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Industrial, Materials, Engineering, and Nuclear.

In 2010, Georgia Tech College of Business rose from 31 to 28, continuing the upward trend that is fast, Diverse Issues in Higher Education Tech has been ranked No. 1 at the undergraduate level, the No. 2 at the master's level, and No. 1 at the doctoral level in terms of yield African American engineering graduates. in 2010, US News & World Report ranked Tech as program No. 28 "MBA". Tech also offers programs in the nation's No. 29 Physics, specializing in Nonlinear Dynamics (where it ranks 5th nationally) and Condensed Matter Physics. US News & World Report rankings of graduate chemistry program at No. 26 overall by the Chemical Physics specialized in ranked No. 14. The Math department ranked in the top 30 overall and in the order of 8 in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, in 2012, SmartMoney named Georgia Institute of Technology as the best return on investment education one of the 50 most expensive state school. Georgia Tech was ranked # 9 in the "Best Technical College with Potential Salary" in the United States.

Georgia Tech is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shanghai, China; and Singapore.

This educational institution founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States. Initially, offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. In 1901, the curriculum has been expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineering. In 1948, the school was renamed to reflect the evolution of trade school to a university research institutes and technical larger and more capable.

Georgia Tech is set in six colleges and has about 31 departments / units, with an emphasis on science and technology. It is also recognized for degree programs in engineering, computer, business administration, science, architecture, and liberal arts.

Georgia Tech's main campus occupies part of Midtown Atlanta, bordered by 10th Street on the north and by the North Avenue to the south, placing it well visible from the sky Atlanta. In 1996, the campus is a place where the athletes' village and for a number of athletic events for the 1996 Olympics Olympic Village Development, along with subsequent gentrification of the surrounding area, improved campus.

Student athletic, well organized and intramural, is part of the students and alumni of life. Competitive intercollegiate sports teams schools, four-time national champion football Yellow Jackets, and the struggle nationally recognized song "Ramblin Wreck 'from Georgia Tech", has helped keep Georgia Tech in the national spotlight. Georgia Tech field of eight men and seven women's team that competed in the NCAA Division I athletics and football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.