Georgia Tech is a public institution that was founded on the 13th of October in 1885. The Georgia School of Technology had opened its doors in October 1888 to only 84 students. The creation of the school had ignited the spark of change from the largely agrarian South to an industrial economy. The first fifty years of GT saw growth from a somewhat narrowly focused trade school into a technological university that is regionally recognized.

The School’s name was changed to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1948 in order to reflect the growing focus on more advanced technological and scientific research. The first women students were admitted to the school in 1952. In 1961 GT was the very first university in the Deep South to admit African American students without any court orders.

Recently, GT has been leading in the management of the global transition from what was an industrial economy to an information economy. Georgia Tech has kept its focus on preparing its students to make use of innovative skills and disciplined work ethic in order to solve real-world problems that can help improve lives of people all over the world.

Georgia Tech is known for sponsoring more than 400 different organization and student clubs. These include professional associations, special-interest clubs, religious organizations, ethnic clubs and social and academic sororities and fraternities. Their students have numerous opportunities to participate in many of the performance and visual arts programs like musical shows, concerts, art shows and plays. Georgia Tech also sponsors many intramural sports activities like billiards, ultimate Frisbee, badminton, flag football, badminton and sand volleyball.

The main campus of GT occupies over 400 acres in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech also operates a satellite campus in the Savannah. They also have a field research station in Griffin which is in the South of Atlanta.Techmaster60

Georgia Tech also offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Lorraine in France, a research center in Athlone in Ireland. In Asia, the Georgia Institute of Technology has a campus in Singapore. They also offer cooperative degree programs in conjunction with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as, Peking University. In Latin America, Georgia Tech offers students in Costa Rica some limited degree programs

The Georgia Institute of Technology has six colleges. The University’s highly ranked graduate schools include the College of Management and College of Engineering. Georgia Institute of Technology is also classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a university with very high research activities. Georgia Tech’s many famous alumni include founder of The Masters golf tournament Bobby Jones, comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and baseball player Nomar Garciaparra. Georgia Tech’s first full-time football coach was John Heisman, and the Heisman Memorial Trophy was named in his honor. The Georgia Institute of Technology’s school newspaper, which is called “The Whistle,” is so named because of the steam whistle in the Tech Tower. The Tech Tower’s steam whistle blows every hour and each time the school’s football team the Yellow Jackets scores a touchdown.