GA Tech? Rankings?

[Anonymous]

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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

What makes either of you think prestige matters?

Here's what employers think of prestige.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/

And here's the proof as shown in where NASA engineers did their undergraduate studies.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/engineering/

It's the individual that matters, not the school they attended. If you're smart, hard-working, ambitious, a good team player, etc., you're going to make the most of your education wherever you go and find success in whatever you do.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

What makes either of you think prestige matters?

Here's what employers think of prestige.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/

And here's the proof as shown in where NASA engineers did their undergraduate studies.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/engineering/

It's the individual that matters, not the school they attended. If you're smart, hard-working, ambitious, a good team player, etc., you're going to make the most of your education wherever you go and find success in whatever you do.

Yeah and everyone gets a happier ever after. Were you born yesterday?

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

No, a top 20/25 is nothing. There's no functional difference in prestige between a "top 20/25" and a top "40/45".

GT CS is top 10 in the country, and its engineering programs are regularly ranked in the top 3. Emory doesn't have an engineering program. Emory could spend their entire $10 billion endowment on engineering and still not be where GT is today.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

No, a top 20/25 is nothing. There's no functional difference in prestige between a "top 20/25" and a top "40/45".

GT CS is top 10 in the country, and its engineering programs are regularly ranked in the top 3. Emory doesn't have an engineering program. Emory could spend their entire $10 billion endowment on engineering and still not be where GT is today.

Beginning to get UVA vibes from Gatech people.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

What makes either of you think prestige matters?

Here's what employers think of prestige.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/

And here's the proof as shown in where NASA engineers did their undergraduate studies.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/engineering/

It's the individual that matters, not the school they attended. If you're smart, hard-working, ambitious, a good team player, etc., you're going to make the most of your education wherever you go and find success in whatever you do.

Yeah and everyone gets a happier ever after. Were you born yesterday?

Didn't say 'everyone' But honestly, how many people do you know who meet the criteria described who aren't successful and happy?

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

No, a top 20/25 is nothing. There's no functional difference in prestige between a "top 20/25" and a top "40/45".

GT CS is top 10 in the country, and its engineering programs are regularly ranked in the top 3. Emory doesn't have an engineering program. Emory could spend their entire $10 billion endowment on engineering and still not be where GT is today.

Beginning to get UVA vibes from Gatech people.

Yea, their truly delusional. Emorys CS program is only 5 years old, they have more than enough money.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

No, a top 20/25 is nothing. There's no functional difference in prestige between a "top 20/25" and a top "40/45".

GT CS is top 10 in the country, and its engineering programs are regularly ranked in the top 3. Emory doesn't have an engineering program. Emory could spend their entire $10 billion endowment on engineering and still not be where GT is today.

MIT, Stanford, and Cal have been top three for decades. Nice try.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t bother to read every post in this thread, but I don’t think anyone has mentioned the main reason GT gets lower ratings, which is its graduation rate.

The GT four year graduation rate is relatively low because many students co-op (which is a good thing, I think). They also have many students who drop classes or take a lighter load to keep their gpa up to retain their scholarships. Many (most/all) of the in-state students have a Hope or Zell Miller state-sponsored scholarship, which are based on HS GPA but require the recipient to maintain a set gpa.

https://finaid.gatech.edu/undergraduate-types-aid/hope-zell-faqs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t bother to read every post in this thread, but I don’t think anyone has mentioned the main reason GT gets lower ratings, which is its graduation rate.

The GT four year graduation rate is relatively low because many students co-op (which is a good thing, I think). They also have many students who drop classes or take a lighter load to keep their gpa up to retain their scholarships. Many (most/all) of the in-state students have a Hope or Zell Miller state-sponsored scholarship, which are based on HS GPA but require the recipient to maintain a set gpa.

https://finaid.gatech.edu/undergraduate-types-aid/hope-zell-faqs

From an OOS GT parent, I agree completely! GT degrees are extremely rigorous (students rarely can take more than 16 credits a semester successfully) and thus it is very common to take 4.5 years to graduate. In fact, you’ll see lots of “5th years” if you ever visit!

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

No, a top 20/25 is nothing. There's no functional difference in prestige between a "top 20/25" and a top "40/45".

GT CS is top 10 in the country, and its engineering programs are regularly ranked in the top 3. Emory doesn't have an engineering program. Emory could spend their entire $10 billion endowment on engineering and still not be where GT is today.

MIT, Stanford, and Cal have been top three for decades. Nice try.

What is your point? The PP didn't say GT CS is top 3.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

No, a top 20/25 is nothing. There's no functional difference in prestige between a "top 20/25" and a top "40/45".

GT CS is top 10 in the country, and its engineering programs are regularly ranked in the top 3. Emory doesn't have an engineering program. Emory could spend their entire $10 billion endowment on engineering and still not be where GT is today.

MIT, Stanford, and Cal have been top three for decades. Nice try.

Industrial - #1

Biomedical/Bioengineering - Tied #2 with MIT, behind Hopkins

Environmental - #3 behind Stanford and Berkeley

Civil - #3, behind Berkeley and UIUC, ahead of Stanford (#4)

Aerospace - #4 behind MIT, Caltech and Stanford

Electrical - Tied #4 with Caltech, behind MIT,, Stanford and Berkeley

Mechanical - Tied #4 with Caltech, behind MIT, Berkeley and Stanford

Chemical - #5 behind MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley

Computer Engineering - #6

Materials - #7

Nuclear - #9

The only two engineering subfields that Georgia Tech is not ranked in the top 10 is for agricultural engineering (focused on agricultural-focused schools i.e Purdue, Iowa State, etc.) and Petroleum (focused on schools in oil-producing states i.e. Texas, A&M, Oklahoma).

When your peers in the various engineering subfields are regularly MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech, you're an elite engineering institution. Especially as a public school in a Southern red state.

Emory will never catch up to Georgia Tech's reputation in engineering in academia or industry in our lifetimes. Again, Emory doesn't even have an engineering school.

Zero connection to Georgia Tech here.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What sort of idiocy is this.

Emory is not Harvard. Believe it or not, the drop off in prestige after the top 8 or so is massive.

GT CS meanwhile is prestigious.

No one said it was. But a top 20/25 is what it is. Emory's endowment is over 10 billion, GT not even 2. If Emory truly wants an full engineering program ( which they seem to be developing a partial one currently) they can do so. GT cannot afford a hospital. Also the outcomes for Emory CS is comparable to GT CS even though GTCS is ranked much higher.

No, a top 20/25 is nothing. There's no functional difference in prestige between a "top 20/25" and a top "40/45".

GT CS is top 10 in the country, and its engineering programs are regularly ranked in the top 3. Emory doesn't have an engineering program. Emory could spend their entire $10 billion endowment on engineering and still not be where GT is today.

MIT, Stanford, and Cal have been top three for decades. Nice try.

Industrial - #1

Biomedical/Bioengineering - Tied #2 with MIT, behind Hopkins

Environmental - #3 behind Stanford and Berkeley

Civil - #3, behind Berkeley and UIUC, ahead of Stanford (#4)

Aerospace - #4 behind MIT, Caltech and Stanford

Electrical - Tied #4 with Caltech, behind MIT,, Stanford and Berkeley

Mechanical - Tied #4 with Caltech, behind MIT, Berkeley and Stanford

Chemical - #5 behind MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley

Computer Engineering - #6

Materials - #7

Nuclear - #9

The only two engineering subfields that Georgia Tech is not ranked in the top 10 is for agricultural engineering (focused on agricultural-focused schools i.e Purdue, Iowa State, etc.) and Petroleum (focused on schools in oil-producing states i.e. Texas, A&M, Oklahoma).

When your peers in the various engineering subfields are regularly MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech, you're an elite engineering institution. Especially as a public school in a Southern red state.

Emory will never catch up to Georgia Tech's reputation in engineering in academia or industry in our lifetimes. Again, Emory doesn't even have an engineering school.

Zero connection to Georgia Tech here.

Well said!

[Anonymous]

I see exactly 4 programs ranked 3 or better in the top Engineering fields. That’s very good, however it’s not at the level of MIT, Stanford, or Berkeley. It’s the next tier down. I do agree that Emory will NEVER be in its league in Engineering.