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Georgia Colleges Hold the Course on U.S. News Rankings
Atlanta (August 19, 2009) — Georgia’s colleges hardly moved in U.S. News & World Report’s latest college rankings, scheduled to be released Thursday.
The magazine’s popular and sometimes controversial report ranks colleges using several factors including reputation, class size, retention and graduation rates, alumni giving and resources for faculty.
How colleges did:
— Emory University ranked 17 among national public and private universities, tying with Rice and Vanderbilt universities. Last year, Emory was 18th in this category.
— Georgia Tech came in at No. 7 among public universities " the same spot it held for the previous two years " and tied with University of California at San Diego. Among national private and public universities, Tech ranked 35th, tying with Lehigh University and the University of Rochester.
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The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.