In truth, GT cut its own throat on the Engineering program at UGa. How, you ask? By not accepting enough students from within the State of Georgia. Local kids and parents complained that they could not get accepted by GT but wanted an engineering program they could actually get into. Academic rigor is upheld, though, by God!
Someone already mentioned it, but the idea was that they wanted to develop more in-state engineers to make up for a shortage. The problem was that instead of developing some of the other tier 2 engineering options in the state (Georgia Southern, Kennesaw State, etc.), they decided to give UGA an engineering school on the basis that UGA promised they wouldn't ask for any more than the allotted funding. This was heavily opposed by anyone familiar with how incredibly expensive an engineering department is. I think the BOR just wanted to push their flagship school and having multiple colleges within the university helps in academic rankings (they may pass us in US News rankings with time if you're into that kind of thing).
Our "medium - sized Stem school" includes a college of engineering that is about the same size as Texas and Michigan combined.I agree. We ain't Harvard. What we are is a medium-sized STEM school that specializes in engineering. And, in that, we are way better than Harvard
While not perfect, here are the latest US News Rankings for each of Georgia Tech's engineering majors:
#1 Industrial/Manufacturing
#2 Aerospace
#2 Chemical
#2 Civil
#2 Mechanical
#3 Biomedical
#3 Materials
#4 Environmental
#4 Electrical
#5 Computer Engineering
Top 4 overall undergraduate engineering, tied with Cal Tech.
https://coe.gatech.edu/news/all-programs-crack-top-5-us-news-undergrad-rankings
The other half of the team is in "Parks and Recreation"!
The last time I checked, the State of GA provided less than 20% of Tech's budget. To help with the shortfall, Tech began accepting out of state kids to get more $. My info is a couple of decades old, so some budget changes may have occurred.
And, people just don't get it when I try to explain that our academic peers are Cal Tech and MIT, not Stanford and Duke.
Hey, why don't big majority of uga grads on b o r have uga take over the admin of gt research dept. Silly engineers should get in labs and do research.
Find one of the root posts to the off topic stuff and it "report" and say "off topic". That'll help the moderators.
They have had that Agricultural Eng degree/program a long, long time. The other stuff is new.Is agricultural engineering putting together and repairing farm equipment?
GTRI has been next to Lockheed for a long, long, time. They've recently invested $50mil+ in buying some of Lockheed's unused buildings and vacant land including the Class A office building that the F-22 was designed in.
Well, if I had to wager -- and I know diddly about engineering or engineers or much any more about Georgia -- it would be that "employment opportunities" gets the blame due a living wage. Georgia might be righteously amazed at what competitive salaries, starting in the classrooms, would do.
