Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution that was founded in 1885. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,682, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 400 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Georgia Institute of Technology's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 36. Its in-state tuition and fees are $12,204 (2015-16); out-of-state tuition and fees are $32,396 (2015-16).

Georgia Tech, located in the heart of Atlanta, offers a wide range of student activities. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, an NCAA Division I team, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference and have a fierce rivalry with the University of Georgia. Since 1961, the football team has been led onto the field at home games by the Ramblin' Wreck, a restored 1930 Model A Ford Sport Coupe. Georgia Tech has a small but vibrant Greek community. Freshmen are offered housing, but aren't required to live on campus. In addition to its campuses in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia Tech has campuses in France, Ireland, Costa Rica, Singapore and China.

The College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology has a rolling application deadline. The application fee is $75 for U.S. residents and $75 for international students. Its tuition is full-time: $12,344 per year (in-state); full-time: $27,600 per year (out-of-state); part-time: $515 per credit (in-state); and part-time: $1,150 per credit (out-of-state). The 2014 Ph.D. student-faculty ratio is 4.2:1. The College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology has 535 full-time faculty on staff.
Students at the Georgia Tech College of Engineering have extensive degree options. There are close to 20 areas to specialize in, from medical physics to aerospace engineering. Among many well regarded programs at the Tech Engineering, the industrial engineering and biomedical engineering programs are especially highly ranked.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Tech is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an association of 62 leading research universities in the US and Canada. Georgia Tech’s campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education. Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Institute offers many nationally recognised, top-ranked programmes. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in the colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Sciences, Scheller College of Business and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Georgia Tech is consistently ranked among the top 10 public universities in the US.

The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown, an area north of downtown Atlanta. Although a number of skyscrapers—most visibly the headquarters of AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, and Bank of America—are visible from all points on campus, the campus itself has few buildings over four stories and has a great deal of greenery. This gives it a distinctly suburban atmosphere quite different from other Atlanta campuses such as that of Georgia State University.

The campus is organized into four main parts: West Campus, East Campus, Central Campus, and Technology Square. West Campus and East Campus are both occupied primarily by student living complexes, while Central Campus is reserved primarily for teaching and research buildings.