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The most prominent rankings, provided by U.S. News & World Report, rank Georgia Tech in the top 15 (13th) of all 147 public universities and in the top 50 (46th) of all 228 national research universities-both public and private. In a new ranking developed by U.S. News, Tech also ranked among the lowest of all universities (18th) in the debt burden of its graduates. Emory University, consistently among the nation's leading national universities and a close working partner with Georgia Tech, was ranked 16th nationally.
Harvard, Princeton and Yale were the top three national universities ranked by U.S. News, while the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill topped the public university list.
But U.S. News is not the only publication ranking colleges and universities. Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine joined the rankings race this year and included Georgia Tech in its "Cream of the Crop" section, rating Tech the ninth best value among all state universities. Kiplinger's value ranking attempts to rank schools "with a high-caliber education but without a mortgage-size debt." The University of Georgia also made the Kiplinger top 100, ranked at 20th nationally.
Georgia Tech continued its national leadership in minority graduate education, with a number one ranking in engineering master's degrees awarded to minority students, and a number two ranking in doctoral engineering degrees. Clark-Atlanta and Georgia State universities also cracked the top 20 in a variety of minority student rankings as well.
"High quality, high value and a leader in diversity; those are all strong attributes, and we're delighted to have them noted in national rankings," said President Wayne Clough. "Georgia Tech has made considerable progress over the last few years and these consistently high rankings reflect that progress. I'm also pretty proud of the fact that our academics are ranked in the top 15 and our football team in the top 25. That's not a boast our friends at Harvard, MIT or Cal Tech can make," he said.
"But complacency is not an option if we're to continue our national ascent, and our current Capital Campaign will be critical to that rise," said Clough. "We have to improve our faculty/student ratio and our overall faculty resources if we hope to compete with the elite in American higher education. We've raised more than $300 million thus far in our Capital Campaign and a sizeable portion of those funds will be used to address these resource issues," said Clough.
Clough also noted the prominence of other Atlanta-area universities in the various rankings. "Education is directly related to economic development," said Clough. "The national reputations of Georgia Tech, Emory and the University of Georgia are crucial to growing and attracting the type of high-tech, high-pay industries we want in Georgia. These rankings are important in that context, and the continued rise of our national reputations is something about which all Georgians can be very proud."