Founded in 1885, Georgia Tech has matured into a globally renowned university famous for science and technology research and education Sited on a sprawling 600-acre campus in Atlanta, the Georgia Institute of Technology (aka Georgia Tech, estb. 1885) is globally renowned for science and technology research and education. In its annual league tables, the U.S. News & World Report routinely ranks Georgia Tech among America™s Top 10 public universities and its school of engineering among the Top 5. Internationally too, Georgia Tech is ranked high at #25 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-13, and its engineering school is among the global Top 10. Founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology to aid the development of an industrial economy in the vanquished post-civil war southern states of America, Georgia Tech has since matured into a highly-respected science and technology education and research institution with an aggregate enrolment of 21,500 students instructed by 1,000 faculty. Georgia™s six colleges ” engineering, architecture, computing, sciences, Scheller College of Business, and Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts ” offer a wide range of undergrad, postgrad and doctoral study programmes. Comments G.P. (Bud) Peterson, president of the university: Georgia Tech is a talented and diverse community of learners and scholars located in the dynamic city of Atlanta. Members of the tech community are united by a commitment to intellectual rigour and excellence, and engaged together in the discovery of knowledge in the classroom, research lab, and community outreach. Our goal is to define and model the technological research university of the 21st century. Atlanta. The administrative capital of the state of Georgia, Atlanta (pop. 443,000) is a cultural, technology, financial, and healthcare hub of south-eastern USA. Hosting the headquarters of over 24 Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola and The Home Depot, Atlanta offers Georgia Tech students great corporate internships and research opportunities. It also houses a large number of museums ranging from history to fine arts, natural history, and beverages. Moreover, the city boasts 45 universities, colleges, and institutions of higher learning, and the nation™s third largest college student enrolment, ranking sixth nationwide for the number of students attending degree-conferring institutions. Atlanta has a temperate climate, with hot, humid summers and mild, but occasionally chilly winters. Summer temperatures average 32oC, while in winter they hover around 11oC. Campus facilities. Georgia Tech’s campus is located in the heart of 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, the campus itself has few buildings over four stories. The institute™s scenic 600-acre, tree-lined campus is next door to museums, music venues, stadia, shopping districts, restaurants and numerous public attractions. While the West and East campuses house residential apartments and dormitories, the Central Campus hosts the majority of academic, research, and administrative buildings. The Technology Square houses the college of business, Advanced Technology Development Centre, and a Barnes & Noble bookstore, among other facilities. The varsity’s library…
