Georgia Tech welcomed more than 16,000 students in its engineering program amidst the Covid-19 pandemic

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Georgia’s Tech’s College of Engineering enrolled 16,440 students for the Fall 2020 semester, a record enrollment for the College. Despite the challenges that Covid-19 presents to in-person instruction and the overall campus experience, Georgia Tech’s top engineering programs continue to thrive.   

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Graduate programs on the rise

More than half of the 8,398 new graduate students are in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering as the second and third most populated schools, respectively.

Women engineers who lead

31.5% of the College’s students are women, highlighting Georgia Tech’s ongoing commitment to recruiting high-achieving female students into its engineering programs and encouraging their professional development and leadership opportunities. Through programs like Women in Engineering (WIE), the College hopes to encourage female engineers and bolster gender inclusivity in the field at large.

The unprecedented levels of enrollment into the College of Engineering this fall are a testament to the strength of education within the College and signals a bright future for engineering at Georgia Tech.

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