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| Georgia Institute of Technology |
The Georgia Institute
of Technology (simply referred to as GT, Tech, or Georgia Tech) is founded
in 1865, as the Georgia School of Technology as part of rebuilding planning to
improve its technology to compete with the industrial revolution in the post-Civil
War Southern United States with Northern. It is a non-profit public research university
in Atlanta, the state of Georgia, the United States. Georgia Tech is operated
through the University System of Georgia. It has satellite campuses in Savannah,
Georgia; Metz, France; Shanghai, China; Singapore; as well as Athlone, Ireland. It is best university for engineering degrees
as well as other reputed degrees.
Although established in 1865, Georgia Tech introduced its
educational programs 1885 to build an industrial economy. In the beginning, it offered
only a degree in the field of mechanical engineering. By 1901, Georgia Tech’s curriculum
had elaborated to comprise civil, chemical, and electronic engineering. The
school changed its name to Georgia Institute of Technology in 1948 to reflect its
evolution from a business school to a bigger and more capable technical
institute and research university.
This time, Georgia Tech is managed into six colleges: College of Architecture, College of
Computing, College of Engineering, College of Sciences, Ivan-Allen College of
Liberal Arts, and Scheller College of Business and having about 31
departments/units, with emphasis on science and technology. Its undergraduate
and graduate programs like bachelors degree programs , master degree programs
and doctoral programs are operated through these institutes. Georgia Tech is
best known for its degree programs in engineering, business administration, computing, liberal arts, the sciences, in addition to architecture.
Georgia Tech’s main campus is located in Midtown Atlanta,
Georgia. It is bordered by 10th Street to the north and by North Avenue
to the south, having it well landscaped view of the Atlanta skyline. Georgia’s campus was the site of the athletes’
village and a venue for several of athletic events for the 1996 Summer
Olympics. The construction of the Olympic village, along with subsequent gentrification
of the surrounding areas, enhanced the campus. The campus is organized into
main four parts: East Campus, West Campus, Central Campus, and Technology
Square. East Campus & West Campus are both occupied generally by student
living complexes; while Central Campus is occupied primarily for teaching and
research buildings.
Both organized and intramural student athletics, are an
integral part of student and alumni life. The school’s intercollegiate
competitive sports teams, the four-time football nation champion Yellow
Jackets, and the nationally recognized fight song “’Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia
Tech”, have helped keep Georgia Tech in the national spotlight. Georgia Tech’s
sports teams: seven women’s and eight men’s teams that participate & compete
in the NCAA Division I athletics as well as the Football Bowl Subdivision. Georgia Tech is
one of the members of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Sources: Wikipedia
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