Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, is a top-ranked public college and one of the leading research universities in the USA.
Georgia Tech provides a technologically focused education to more than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students in fields ranging from engineering, computing, and sciences, to business, design, and liberal arts.
Georgia Tech's wide variety of technologically-focused majors and minors consistently earn strong national rankings. Twelve of Georgia Tech’s academic programs rank among the best in the country, according to the recently released U.S. News & World Report 2020 “Best Colleges” undergraduate rankings, with two programs — civil engineering and industrial and systems engineering — ranking No. 1.
Georgia Tech is also home to the School of Computational Science and Engineering which boasts a large faculty population that is dedicated to the advancement of high-performance computing and parallel computing initiatives. As of 2019, the Institute also acquired the Hive – a $5.3 million-dollar supercomputer with over 100 trillion bytes of memory and 2.5 quadrillion bytes of storage. Housed in the Coda Building in Tech Square, the Hive supports research for 33 faculty, 54 research scientists and postdocs, 195 graduate students, and 56 undergraduate students from our Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Science.