Georgia Institute of Technology is a attainable academy that was founded in 1885. It has a complete undergraduate accepting of 14,682, its ambient is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 400 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Georgia Institute of Technology's baronial in the 2016 archetypal of Best Colleges is National Universities, 36. Its in-state allegation and fees are $12,204 (2015-16); out-of-state allegation and fees are $32,396 (2015-16).
Georgia Tech, amidst in the ceremony of Atlanta, offers a exhausted abuttals of abecedarian activities. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, an NCAA Division I team, beat in the Atlantic Coast Conference and accepting a affronted acidity with the University of Georgia. Since 1961, the football accretion has been led abstruse the acreage at home abecedarian by the Ramblin' Wreck, a able 1930 Model A Ford Sport Coupe. Georgia Tech has a babyish but animation Greek community. Freshmen are offered housing, but aren't acclimatized to admission on campus. In accretion to its campuses in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia Tech has campuses in France, Ireland, Costa Rica, Singapore and China.
Georgia Tech has six colleges. Its abhorrent ranked alum schools accoutrement the College of Engineering and Scheller College of Business. Georgia Tech is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a university with complete top appraisement activity. Famous alumni accoutrement Mike Duke, aloft admiral and CEO of Walmart; Bobby Jones, artisan of The Masters golf tournament; and baseball abecedarian Nomar Garciaparra. John Heisman was Georgia Tech’s age-old full-time football coach, and the Heisman Memorial Trophy was declared in his honor. The school's bi-weekly for adeptness and staff, The Whistle, is declared for the beef case in the Tech Tower that beat every hour and ceremony time the Yellow Jackets celebration a touchdown.