@greymeer and @spandy2003 Nice stats, but on some things I would disagree! Having a student at UT…
Sports - People live and breathe UT football. It can be a little too much. They often ignore their b-ball team which this year is amazing and beat KU at home in Allen Fieldhouse!
UT Business - beats GT, UT Honors business, don’t need to say more. 100% placement rate
UT CS - near impossible to transfer into, large program, hard to get classes, GT CS program - higher ranked than UT, comparably ranked to Cornell, UIUC, and UWashington, top top and very hard to get into.
Campus - GT urban campus, have to really be ok with that. UT - awesome college campus, lively, doesn’t feel big. Both Austin and Atlanta are great towns.
UT - housing on campus is not guaranteed even freshman year, many private off campus dorms, greek life is big, not sure about these aspects at GT, homeless are in Austin just like any large town, but not as bad as some places like San Francisco, and if you’re aware and not constantly looking on your phone, or walking alone at night and paying attention, not engaging, you’re going to be fine.
But ultimately you can’t go wrong at either, it’s really a question of the type of campus one wants. A large true college campus or not. My cousins went to GT, were female and couldn’t stand it. It has come a long way in trying to bring up the ratios to be more equitable M to F which is phenomenal, and it is a great school. Georgia is progressing at a much quicker rate than Texas so if that’s an issue for you, that is something to consider as well. Depending on what side of the fence you’re on, that may matter. Austin however, is a very liberal community, although many of the parents of the students are not!