re: Georgia Tech is #44 in the US News rankings and UGA is #49.

We take a lot of transfers from Auburn once they get their grades up. They usually can't get into Georgia straight out of high school.

I had to hit "load more" before I saw either school.

State of Georgia has 3 schools in the top 50 now.

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Only a 5 spot difference. Are we about to be better than Tech at everything?

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It’s because tech has absolute shite humanities courses and that’s all these rankings care about.

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USNews rankings is pure marketing.

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:kige:

So is Forbes

Problem is defining missions these days. Job #1 should be to educate the next generation but Research and Entertainment is overtaking Education and that can be trouble in a generation or two.

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Auburn literally bought Cam Newton.

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only thing EVER proven was Mississippi State offered to pay him


Georgia is paying $30,000,000 per year for football players

Thats the ONLY reason that your team is full of five star goons

and fits with your fans being scumbag goofballs, which they have ALWAYS BEEN

WOOF WOOF

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Only a 5 spot difference. Are we about to be better than Tech at everything?

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Get on these AAU nuts

In the latest U.S. News rankings, for example, we were listed as No. 4 in engineering (tied with Caltech). What ranks us lower than MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley and higher than Michigan and Carnegie Mellon is not how successful or happy our students are after they graduate — or whatever else you believe we should strive for — but our reputation among deans and senior faculty across hundreds of universities. If you trust that deans have a good eye for quality and value in other schools, then this ranking is for you. If you would prefer hard data about outcomes, you will need to look elsewhere.

The same reputation metric ranks us No. 1 in aerospace (tied with MIT) and industrial engineering; No. 2 in biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering; No. 3 in environmental engineering; No. 5 in computer science; and No. 19 in business. Interestingly, while U.S. News thinks we are one of the best choices in the country in areas where more than three-fourths of our students major — engineering, computing, and business — our overall national ranking is only 44 (we were 38 last year). How can that be?

U.S. News uses a different methodology when ranking universities as a whole than it does when ranking specific majors. For example, the overall ranking values how much a university spends per student (the more, the better, in their view) and how small classes are. Not surprisingly, the top positions are reserved to private institutions with large endowments and small student bodies. The top public universities, Berkeley and UCLA, are ranked only No. 20, even though each of them offers a world-class education to about as many students as the top five put together, all of which are private.

In our case, thanks to fiscal prudence, generous state investments, and enrollment growth, Georgia Tech has been able to streamline costs per student, lowering tuition and fees while delivering some of the best student outcomes in the nation. We see this as a success even if it costs us a few positions on a specific ranking.

Overall, we are pleased to see Georgia Tech listed among the best public universities in the country by a multitude of rankings: Forbes (No. 12), Niche (No. 3), Money (No. 6), Payscale.com (No. 8), and The Wall Street Journal (No. 15, the same as U.S. News). The more a ranking focuses on value for students, the higher Georgia Tech tends to show. Low cost, high value, high graduation rates, great jobs for graduates — that’s where we excel. In fact, according to the University System of Georgia’s new tool, Georgia Degrees Pay, Georgia Tech leads all public universities in the state in terms of six-year graduation rates and salaries. (We are also slightly pricier than the rest — though well below our national peer institutions.)

Whatever rankings say about us, we always note whether they indicate areas where we need to improve. For example, Georgia Tech doesn’t score well on U.S. News & World Report’s measures of social mobility. While our Pell Grant students (students qualifying for federal need-based financial aid) graduate at very high rates (No. 8 among public universities according to The Chronicle of Higher Education), we do not serve as many Pell students as we should. The fact that we are now the No. 3 most selective public doctoral university is making it harder for us to attract low-income students who haven’t had access to the same opportunities in high school as others. Yet, UCLA and Berkeley — the only two public doctoral universities that are even more selective than we are — manage to attract more Pell students than we do.