Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

If you plan to study engineering, take a look at what Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Georgia Tech is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 39,771.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Georgia Tech Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at Georgia Tech

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Georgia Tech offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Georgia Tech Engineering Rankings

There were 379 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Georgia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Georgia Tech Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 72% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 28% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	205
Black or African American	45
Hispanic or Latino	65
White	407
International Students	561
Other Races/Ethnicities	37

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	425
Mechanical Engineering	284
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	137
Civil Engineering	94
Industrial Engineering	92
Biomedical Engineering	71
Materials Engineering	59
Chemical Engineering	56
Operations Research	50
Systems Engineering	38
Environmental Engineering	33
Nuclear Engineering	16
Manufacturing Engineering	13
Robotics Engineering	8
Engineering Mechanics	2

Related Majors

• Engineering Technologies
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Architecture & Related Services

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for GA, the home state for Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Software Applications Developers	30,440	$105,240
Systems Software Developers	12,910	$105,100
Civil Engineers	9,180	$81,110
Industrial Engineers	7,260	$86,220
Computer Network Architects	5,390	$114,240

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Disavian under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.