Georgia Tech

[12] Georgia Tech fields eight men's and seven women's sports teams; these compete in NCAA Division I athletics and have won five national championships.

[13][14] Because the American South of that era was mainly populated by agricultural workers and few technical developments were occurring, they proposed to establish a technology school.

The two buildings were equal in size to show the importance of teaching both the mind and the hands, though, at the time, there was some disagreement to whether the machine shop should have been used to turn a profit.

[20][22] In 1934, the Engineering Experiment Station (later known as the Georgia Tech Research Institute) was founded by W. Harry Vaughan with an initial budget of $5,000 (equivalent to $113,881 in 2023) and 13 part-time faculty.

The student council defeated a resolution supporting the Vietnam Moratorium, and the extent of the Tech community's response to the Kent State shooting was limited to a student-organized memorial service, though the institute was ordered closed for two days, along with all other University System of Georgia schools.

A large amount of construction occurred, creating most of what is now considered "West Campus" for Tech to serve as the Olympic Village, and significantly gentrifying Midtown Atlanta.

[54][55][56] It eventually expanded this program with its online masters in analytics in January 2017, as well as providing the option for advanced credits with a MicroMasters in collaboration with edX.

East Campus abuts the Downtown Connector, granting residences quick access to Midtown and its businesses (for example, The Varsity) via a number of bridges over the highway.

Britain Dining Hall is modeled after a medieval church, complete with carved columns and stained glass windows showing symbolic figures.

[74] In August 2011, the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons opened next to the library and occupies part of the Yellow Jacket Park area.

[92] In September 2024, Georgia Tech announced that it was ending its partnership with Tianjin University following U.S. congressional scrutiny of potential ties to the People's Liberation Army.

Georgia Tech has sought to expand its undergraduate and graduate offerings in less technical fields, primarily those under the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, which saw a 20% increase in admissions in 2008.

[133] Tech's graduate engineering program rankings are aerospace (2nd), biomedical/bioengineering (2nd), chemical (3rd), civil (1st), computer (4th), electrical (4th), environmental (3rd), industrial (1st), materials (3rd), mechanical (2nd), and nuclear (9th).

The center will work closely with government agencies and the industry to perform research in logistics and supply chain systems for translation into innovations and commercialization to achieve transformative economic and societal impact.

[168] It allows graduate students pursuing master's degrees or doctorates in any field to spend a maximum of two consecutive semesters working full- or part-time with employers.

[173] Home Park, a neighborhood that borders the north end of campus, is a popular living area for Tech students and recent graduates.

Georgia Tech freshmen students were the first to inhabit the dormitories in the Winter and Spring 1996 quarters, while much of East Campus was under renovation for the Olympics.

[197] The Georgia Tech Glee Club, founded in 1906, is one of the oldest student organizations on campus, and still operates today as part of the School of Music.

The group has toured extensively and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show twice, providing worldwide exposure to "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech".

Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, swimming & diving, cheerleading, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track & field, cheerleading, and volleyball.

[241] Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1958 to reduce the tension between them.

There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D-Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves.

[243][244] Georgia Tech participates in many non-NCAA sanctioned club sports, including archery, airsoft, boxing, crew, cricket, cycling (winning three consecutive Dirty South Collegiate Cycling Conference mountain bike championships), disc golf, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, kayaking, lacrosse, paintball, roller hockey, soccer, rugby union, sailing, skydiving, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, ultimate, water polo, water ski, and wrestling.

There have been several attempts by students to orchestrate complex plans to steal the huge symbolic letter T, and on occasion they have carried this act out successfully.

Buzz enters the football games at the sound of swarming yellow jackets and proceeds to do a flip on the fifty-yard line GT logo.

The band plays the fight songs Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and Up With the White and Gold after every football score and between every basketball period.

Other notable band songs are Michael Jackson's Thriller for half-time at the Thrillerdome, Ludacris' Move Bitch for large gains in football.

Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr. and former United States Senator Sam Nunn have both made significant changes from within their elected offices.

Herbert Saffir developed the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale,[273] and W. Jason Morgan made significant contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics.

[285][286] Some of Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Josh Okogie, Chris Bosh, Derrick Favors, Thaddeus Young,[287] Jarrett Jack,[288] and Iman Shumpert.

About a dozen one- and two-story buildings, several of which are damaged, line a dirt road that intersects with three railroad tracks in the foreground
Atlanta during the Civil War, c. 1864
Two buildings stand side by side on a hill. The one on the left is two stories, with two smokestacks behind it. The one on the right is the larger, taller Tech Tower building.
An early picture of Georgia Tech, circa 1899
A white-haired and white-bearded man gesturing with his right hand as he speaks
Former Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough speaks at a student meeting.
The Kessler Campanile seen from the Georgia Tech Student Center.
Georgia Tech's Tech Tower during a miraculous snow day
A large, white, multi-story building constructed from concrete, metal and glass with several tiered, curved roof segments framing long panels of windows. The building is set back on a large green lawn with several small pine trees
The front of the Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center
A wide, red brick building with a tower in the center and grey concrete archways spaced along the length of the building
Brittain Dining Hall , the main dining hall for East Campus.
A one-story brick building with grey concrete stairs in the center leading to a door with a column on either side of it. There are three long windows on each side of the building.
The Carnegie Building, constructed in 1907, is located in the Historic District of Central Campus. It was originally the campus library, and it now houses the President's office.
A view of Technology Square
A view of the mixed use Georgia Tech development CODA
A white concrete and glass, curved-front building with a driveway separated by a median leading to it
Georgia Tech Lorraine , Metz , France
A pedestrian bridge links the Klaus Advanced Computing Building to the College of Computing Building.
A circular, six-story brick building with decorative white concrete stripes above and below lines of adjacent square windows that encircle most of each level
The Centennial Research Building, one of the buildings of the Georgia Tech Research Institute
A red brick and white concrete, four-story apartment building with a landscaped courtyard in the foreground
Eighth Street Apartments are apartment-style residence halls that opened in 1995 as housing for the athletes and journalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics as a part of the Olympic Village .
A football stadium with a marching band in white uniforms on the field, with the goal post in the foreground and various buildings in the background
Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field, home of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
A newspaper front page with the headline, "Georgia—Our Annual Triumph", an image of a football player, and four columns of text
The front page of the first issue of The Technique
1910 Georgia Tech Blueprint – Fraternities Page 05
A person wearing a costume which resembles a yellowjacket, including a black shirt with yellow interlocking G-T logo, spins a dial on a wooden gymnasium floor.
Buzz , the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets' mascot
Six women, wearing a uniform of a white skirt and a white and gold cropped top with the word "Tech" on the front, ride onto the football field on the running boards and rear seat of a white-and-gold-painted antique car.
Georgia Institute of Technology Ramblin' Wreck and Cheerleaders
Tech Tower
Buzz, the mascot
Tech cheerleaders waving flags after a touchdown
Group photo of fifteen men; five in the top row, four in the middle, and six in the front, posing in front of a brick building
Georgia Tech's first two graduates were H. L. Smith (top row, center) and G. C. Crawford (top row, far right).