GA Tech? Rankings?

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For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

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GT is a great engineering school and its name on your diploma signifies strong technical chops for sure. That being said it’s not worth the extra cost when you have VT in state. Purdue is a better deal OOS as well, but again not really worth the extra cost with VT in state. VT is no slouch; its US News ranking is Top 15 and its reputation is regarded as such.

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Anonymous wrote:GT is a great engineering school and its name on your diploma signifies strong technical chops for sure. That being said it’s not worth the extra cost when you have VT in state. Purdue is a better deal OOS as well, but again not really worth the extra cost with VT in state. VT is no slouch; its US News ranking is Top 15 and its reputation is regarded as such.

Disagree if you are heading into aerospace engineering and the like. Also disagree if you child us aiming for grad school in tech.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

You are giving false choice.
Look at technology companies are looking for employees and GT is very high.

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Anonymous wrote:This school is very much overrated. Someone posted in another thread the avg salary is only 75k.

That is not a good yardstick...in that other post, it says the average salary for Yale is $70k. What does that tell you? Not sure.

Average BEGINNING salary.

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Anonymous wrote:This school is very much overrated. Someone posted in another thread the avg salary is only 75k.

That is not a good yardstick...in that other post, it says the average salary for Yale is $70k. What does that tell you? Not sure.

Average BEGINNING salary.

Not to mention many GT grads go to graduate school. Mine did - and was paid a stipend to attend the top program in his field in the country.

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It's both hilarious and sad how many people are posting USNWR rankings as if they are facts set in stone. The CS and Engineering rankings are based solely on the OPINIONS of deans and faculty IN THOSE PROGRAMS! They're not based on any hard data at all.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This was never GT against the world. Harvard is top rated in just about every discipline, including CS, so of course you are going to pick Harvard.

This is one troll somehow making the case that you may pick Emory for CS (where it is #82) vs. GT for CS where it is #5? Of course you would not. Unfortunately, most of the discussion is apples-to-oranges because Emory barely has a STEM program, so the kids applying to GT for STEM are not applying to Emory.

Also, Emory is rated #21 overall vs. #38 for GT. Higher yes, but it is big difference comparing Harvard to Emory (where all the Harvard folks are infuriated that the two schools are mentioned in the same breath), then the #21 school to the #38 school.

Berkeley is ranked #22, but I doubt many people on this board would say they would pick Emory over Berkeley (unless you absolutely knew you wanted to reside in the Atlanta/SE US).

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This was never GT against the world. Harvard is top rated in just about every discipline, including CS, so of course you are going to pick Harvard.

This is one troll somehow making the case that you may pick Emory for CS (where it is #82) vs. GT for CS where it is #5? Of course you would not. Unfortunately, most of the discussion is apples-to-oranges because Emory barely has a STEM program, so the kids applying to GT for STEM are not applying to Emory.

Also, Emory is rated #21 overall vs. #38 for GT. Higher yes, but it is big difference comparing Harvard to Emory (where all the Harvard folks are infuriated that the two schools are mentioned in the same breath), then the #21 school to the #38 school.

Berkeley is ranked #22, but I doubt many people on this board would say they would pick Emory over Berkeley (unless you absolutely knew you wanted to reside in the Atlanta/SE US).

You might not pick Harvard over GA Tech if you care about the weather in the winter. Or about saving money for grad school. Or about the total number of STEM classes offered.

It's hard to argue about Emory vs Berkeley, but you could easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered, cost, male/female ratio, quality of sports teams, social life options, weather (MIT only), etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Saw this on Reddit, was curious what DCU thought... Is it worth the OOS cost?
[/url]https://www.reddit.com/r/gatech/comments/s10vj2/why_is_georgia_tech_low_in_the_rankings/[url]

Georgia Tech is definitely worth the cost if you are able to get in. Like most state schools, they prioritize in-state admissions and it is extremely difficult to get in unless you kid is one of those groups that is underrepresented in STEM - URM, female, non-asian, etc.

You will have better luck with Emory if you want a school in Atlanta.

if you are looking for Public engineering schools, I'd also apply to Purdue, UIUC and Michigan.

Emory is much harder to get into even for CS.

For STEM? No way. You must be thinking of University of Georgia.

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Anonymous wrote:A good school but they'll continue having trouble playing second fiddle to Emory. In fact they're lucky Emory doesn't have engineering because GT would like be completely irrelevant If Emory did. For most states there can only be one top school the only other thing is for Georgia to become a more important state.

+1000, Emory would just siphon off all there top out of state students.

Strongly disagree with this. Emory and GT are very different schools. It’s unusual for someone to apply to both schools. The student bodies are incredibly different.

A lot of southerners attend GT. Emory isn’t considered a southern school. It isn’t a traditional land grant college with a large Greek life and athletics program. Most southerners consider it a strong graduate school. It’s okay for graduate school, but that’s it. It has a large Jewish population and many students from the NE. I grew up in an UMC circle in the south and no one considered Emory. It’s jokingly called “Long Island university of Atlanta.”

GT is strong academically and also has a large athletics program and Greek life. The schools are very different. No one at either school even talks about the other school. UGA is a big rival to GT. Emory is also on the other side of Atlanta and the schools don’t typically play each other in sports or have any sort of interaction at all. If you attend GT, you’ll never hear about Emory and I assume vice versa.

I don't see how this changes what I said, Both schools don't compete now because they don't offer each other's majors, however if Emory did offer engineering GT wouldn't be able to compete. However if GT developed health programs Emory would still be fine, because Emory is the prestigious one and has the advantage. Whenever Emory decides to enter the tech arena, Gtech would be in trouble.

How and why would Emory offering engineering mean GT wouldn't be able to compete? Do you understand how difficult it is to build multiple top departments, particularly engineering departments that require a huge amount of resources and time? Do you understand how difficult it is to build a reputation for top academics in academia?

It's like saying if Harvard offered engineering majors, MIT would not be able to compete. Oh wait, Harvard does and the gap between Harvard and MIT in engineering is only widening.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This is a absolutely terrible comparison.

Emory is not Harvard.

Sure, between Georgia Tech (Overall #30, CS #5) and Harvard CS (Overall #1, #13), one should choose Harvard.

Between Georgia Tech (Overall 30, CS #5) and Emory (Overall #24, CS >#80), anyone serious about CS would pick Georgia Tech. This is the reality of engineering schools. The US News rankings rank based on factors that help business/pre-med/liberal arts students, not engineering students.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This is a absolutely terrible comparison.

Emory is not Harvard.

Sure, between Georgia Tech (Overall #30, CS #5) and Harvard CS (Overall #1, #13), one should choose Harvard.

Between Georgia Tech (Overall 30, CS #5) and Emory (Overall #24, CS >#80), anyone serious about CS would pick Georgia Tech. This is the reality of engineering schools. The US News rankings rank based on factors that help business/pre-med/liberal arts students, not engineering students.

GT is ranked 38 on US news and 68 on WSJ rankings. There's no comparison between the two schools. In fact the gap is growing.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This was never GT against the world. Harvard is top rated in just about every discipline, including CS, so of course you are going to pick Harvard.

This is one troll somehow making the case that you may pick Emory for CS (where it is #82) vs. GT for CS where it is #5? Of course you would not. Unfortunately, most of the discussion is apples-to-oranges because Emory barely has a STEM program, so the kids applying to GT for STEM are not applying to Emory.

Also, Emory is rated #21 overall vs. #38 for GT. Higher yes, but it is big difference comparing Harvard to Emory (where all the Harvard folks are infuriated that the two schools are mentioned in the same breath), then the #21 school to the #38 school.

Berkeley is ranked #22, but I doubt many people on this board would say they would pick Emory over Berkeley (unless you absolutely knew you wanted to reside in the Atlanta/SE US).

You might not pick Harvard over GA Tech if you care about the weather in the winter. Or about saving money for grad school. Or about the total number of STEM classes offered.

It's hard to argue about Emory vs Berkeley, but you could easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered, cost, male/female ratio, quality of sports teams, social life options, weather (MIT only), etc.

This is the craziest post of all...you would easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered? Meaning, you want the school that offers the least?

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This was never GT against the world. Harvard is top rated in just about every discipline, including CS, so of course you are going to pick Harvard.

This is one troll somehow making the case that you may pick Emory for CS (where it is #82) vs. GT for CS where it is #5? Of course you would not. Unfortunately, most of the discussion is apples-to-oranges because Emory barely has a STEM program, so the kids applying to GT for STEM are not applying to Emory.

Also, Emory is rated #21 overall vs. #38 for GT. Higher yes, but it is big difference comparing Harvard to Emory (where all the Harvard folks are infuriated that the two schools are mentioned in the same breath), then the #21 school to the #38 school.

Berkeley is ranked #22, but I doubt many people on this board would say they would pick Emory over Berkeley (unless you absolutely knew you wanted to reside in the Atlanta/SE US).

You might not pick Harvard over GA Tech if you care about the weather in the winter. Or about saving money for grad school. Or about the total number of STEM classes offered.

It's hard to argue about Emory vs Berkeley, but you could easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered, cost, male/female ratio, quality of sports teams, social life options, weather (MIT only), etc.

This must be a troll post.

If you are serious and recommend that to your kid, you are fool.
If you kid actually wanted to study hard core STEM and picked Emory over Caltech of MIT, (s)he is a fool and, well, doesn't deserve those schools.