GVU Ranked #1

March, 1996

Georgia Tech continues to attract national acclaim from peers, practitioners and publishers alike.

In rankings released this week by U.S. News & World Report, the Institute's graduate programs were rated among the nation's elite in a number of disciplines and No. 1 in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science Graphics Interaction.

Tech's College of Engineering returned to the Top 10 in the nation, ranked third by professional engineers, fourth among public schools and ninth overall. The College's School of Industrial Engineering was again the top program of its kind in the country, and Tech's Aerospace Engineering program was ranked fifth nationally for the third consecutive year.

"I am pleased the College of Engineering ranked in the Top 10," said Dr. John A. White, dean of the College of Engineering, "but I am even more pleased that practicing engineers ranked us third nationally, and our fellow academics ranked us eighth."

The College of Computing's computer-science program ranked eighth among public universities and 18th overall. The Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center ranked 1st nationally among all public and private universities.

"The College of Computing has shown consistent and dramatic improvement since our founding in 1990," Dean Peter A. Freeman said. "What distinguishes Georgia Tech is our continual focus not only on the technology, but on the individual as well. We are trying to shape a future in which computers improve the quality of daily life, and I'm pleased that our peers throughout the country recognize our role in that effort."

The U.S. News graduate rankings follow a series of undergraduate and graduate school rankings from a variety of sources in which Georgia Tech has scored consistently well.

The Fiske Guide To Colleges, Money Magazine, U.S. News, Computerworld magazine and the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council all ranked Institute programs very highly.

"[This week's] rankings affirm earlier analyses," President Wayne Clough said. "Georgia Tech has become one of the premier educational institutions in the United States. From the National Academy of Sciences to Computerworld magazine to U.S. News & World Report, the Georgia Institute of Technology is consistently ranked within the top tier of universities.

"The rankings game in higher education can be a very subjective one, but the breadth of our recognition and the continual improvement in the quality of our programs provides Georgia Tech with a legacy of achievement that we very much look forward to continuing."