Georgia Institute of Technology 2024

The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is one of the top public research universities in the U.S., developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education,Georgia Tech is considered one of the fastest-growing public universities in the country over the last decade. In summer and fall 2023, Georgia Tech welcomed 4,890 new undergraduate students and had a record total enrollment of almost 48,000 students. Undergraduate enrollment soared over 19,000 students for the first time in the Institute’s history.

As a science and technology-focused institution, supporting students to persist and complete STEM degrees is central to our mission. The sustained economic impact made possible through a better-prepared STEM workforce is significant, and producing highly qualified STEM graduates to meet workforce needs is a high priority for Georgia Tech. Over the 2023-2024 academic year, Georgia Tech awarded 12,177 degrees, including 4,575 bachelor’s degrees, 38% of which were earned by women. The top five majors for bachelor’s degree conferred were STEM disciplines, including Computer Science (n=1,206), Mechanical Engineering (n=473), Business Administration (n=392), Industrial Engineering (n=343), and Biomedical Engineering (n=275). Georgia Tech continues to be a national leader in the number of STEM students enrolled and the number of degrees conferred each year. (See Appendix A: Quick Facts About Completion for Academic Year 2023-2024.)

The Institute continued to bolster special transfer pathways for first-generation students, limited-income students, and veterans, with 1,118 incoming undergraduate students transferring into Georgia Tech from another institution in fall 2023. (See Appendix B: 2023 First-Year and Transfer Class Profile.) Additionally, Georgia Tech partners with high school and home study programs to offer advanced courses to students that have completed the highest level math and science courses available in their local curriculum through our Distance Math and On-Campus Dual Enrollment programs, which served more than 1,000 students in fall 2023,2 and offered opportunities for STEM engagement to more than 27,000 K-12 students between August 2023 and July 2024 through its Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC). Expanding access to Georgia Tech through our growing undergraduate enrollment, transfer pathways, and K-12 programs remains an institutional priority and reflects our motto, “Progress and Service.”

Georgia Tech values the diversity of our campus community, as reflected in our student body. In fall 2023, 39.2% of the 19,505 undergraduate students were women, 19% of which were women from underrepresented minority (URM) backgrounds and 78% enrolled in STEM majors. URM students represented 17% of our undergraduate student body in fall 2023 and the Institute welcomed record-setting representation of incoming first-generation college students (15%) and students from rural areas (12%), with 81% of undergraduate students majoring in STEM disciplines.2

As of fall 2023, Georgia Tech achieved a first-to-second-year retention rate of 98% for the first-time, full-time freshman 2022 cohort, sustaining an Institute record high, and a six-year graduation rate of 93% for the 2016 cohort. Further, the four-year graduation rate for the 2018 first-time, full-time cohort was 66%, also a record high and an increase from the 2017 cohort’s four-year rate of 57%. Table 1 shows Georgia Tech’s historical retention rates since the launch of CCG in 2011. Table 2 shows the Institute’s historical graduation since the launch of CCG in 2011.  While Georgia Tech’s institutional benchmarks are relatively stable, even as undergraduate cohorts heavily impacted by the pandemic persist towards graduation, achieving the gold standard in student success is an emergent priority; that is, all student populations achieve educational outcomes at a rate equal to the highest performing group.