<p>In the National Research Council rankings back in the mid-nineties, GaTech's rankings in the physical sciences (chemistry, physics, etc.) were abysmal. Engineering rankings were better, yet nowhere near on par with the current USNWR rankings. GaTech's rankings were one of the most glaring differences in engineering rankings between these two sources. Any idea why the disparity? Will the long awaited updated NRC evaluation relflect this change?</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education, receiving more than $355 million in research awards in fiscal 2005. In 2004. Groundbreaking research is underway in dozens of labs across campus, focused on producing technology and innovation that will help drive economic growth. With top-ranked programs in the sciences, engineering, computing, architecture, and related areas.</p>
<p>The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the top universities in the world for technology transfer and a top producer of start-up companies, according to a new biotechnology study from the Milken Institute. Georgia Tech was ranked No. 4 for start-up companies, No. 11 overall for technology transfer (bringing technologies from the lab to market) </p>
<p>No. 8 for patents filed. Tech also ranked No. 9 in number of patents in 2005, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. </p>
<p>Georgia Tech helped attract more than $112 million in new capital investment and helped create or save more than 11,000 jobs statewide. Year after year, Georgia Tech is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & World Report's listing of America's top ten public universities.</p>
<p>That's kind of my point... I don't know why GaTech performed so poorly in the NRC rankings. The difference between these academic rankings and the more mainstream USNWR rankings is one of the most dramatic of the top engineering programs.</p>
<p>As for being a top public, I don't necessarily agree with USNWR's ranking. I agree it is strong, but I think it is ranked higher than it should be. Yes, it is selective, and yes it has strong engineering programs, but I don't see how it ends up ranked higher than a school like UT or Wisconsin, that are ranked higher in so many more academic fields. How can a school that really mainly excels in engineering be ranked higher than schools that are strong in engineering and so many other fields? And in the pure sciences (physics/math/chemistry, etc), GaTech is not as strong. I think it all comes back to the selectivity issue.</p>
<p>USNWR's Best National Ranks- #34 Wisconsin, #38 GaTech, #47 UT
Faculty resources rank - # 69 # 60 #114
Financial resources rank - #47 #42 #104
selectivity rank - #44 #42 #49
"Alumni giving rank" - #109 #24 (#1 Pub U) #135
Engineering rank - #13 #6 #11</p>
<p>U.S.News's ranking is based in each category, data on up to 15 indicators of academic quality are gathered from each school.</p>
<p>Nobody chooses to go into the pure sciences because they're hard as **** here</p>