unitid 139755 · Atlanta, GA · public 4-year · city (large)
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Public university in Atlanta, Georgia, US
- founded
- 1885
- enrollment 2023
- 53,737
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- gatech.edu
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Established in 1885, it has the largest student enrollment of the University System of Georgia, with satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia, and Metz, France. wikipedia rev 1364380805 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
14%
1st pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
18,785
86th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
14%
undergrads on Pell grants
5th pctl among public 4-years
completion
94%
finish within 150% time
100th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$28,167
81st pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$12,116
after aid, aided students
44th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$102,772
after entry, Title IV students
100th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$21,672
70th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $7,666 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k19%
- 30-48k13%
- 48-75knot reported
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $71,161
- First-generation students
- 15%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $12,058
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 2,731 | $191,919 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 1,456 | — | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 1,070 | $155,126 | $21,125 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 437 | $98,607 | $27,000 |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | 357 | $147,708 | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 351 | $96,355 | $23,000 |
| Industrial Engineering. | 346 | $118,425 | $21,750 |
| Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management. | 285 | — | — |
| Biomedical/Medical Engineering. | 266 | $102,958 | $22,750 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 232 | $116,793 | — |
| Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering. | 224 | $101,967 | $22,750 |
| Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering. | 213 | $122,569 | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,936 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,339) · basketball player (499) · university teacher (232) · American football player (186) · computer scientist (127) · engineer (102) · politician (56) · baseball player (55)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Kary Mullis Chemistry 1993
- Jimmy Carter Peace 2002
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Jimmy Carter
199 wikis · Public domain
Kary Mullis
69 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Roman Reigns
58 wikis · CC BY 2.0
John Young
56 wikis · Public domain
Randolph Scott
49 wikis · Public domain
Juan Carlos Varela
49 wikis · Public domain
Chris Bosh
47 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jeff Foxworthy
45 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Alexandra Elbakyan
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sandra Magnus
40 wikis · Public domain
Merian C. Cooper
37 wikis · Public domain
Angelo Taylor
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Stephon Marbury
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Timothy Kopra
33 wikis · Public domain
Dylan Baker
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
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built 2026-07-17
Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364380805), CC BY-SA 4.0.