Rankings
Year after year, Georgia Tech’s graduate programs are ranked among the finest in the United States. Georgia Tech is consistently one of the leading technological universities, and is currently ranked #4 after MIT, Stanford University, and the University of California-Berkeley.
In addition, in terms of graduating African American engineering students, Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks Tech #1 at the bachelor's level, #2 at the master's level, and #1 at the doctoral level. These impressive national rankings reflect the academic prestige long associated with the Georgia Tech curriculum.
In 2008, the Georgia Institute of Technology ranked among the top world universities in engineering and technology in two separate global rankings. The Times Higher Education Supplement-QS prepared the list that ranks Georgia Tech #8 compared to the world's top engineering and information technology schools.
Georgia Tech also ranked #8 on the list of the top 100 world universities in engineering/technology and computer sciences, according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). ARWU ranks major institutions according to their academic or research performance in each of five broad subject fields according to a formula that factors in the following indicators:
- Alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and fields medals
- Highly cited researchers articles indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI
- The percentage of articles published in the leading journals of each field
- Engineering research expenditures
