{"154961":{"#nid":"154961","#data":{"type":"boilerplate","title":"ECE\/Georgia Tech\/U.S. News undergraduate rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School\u2019s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization \u2013 bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world\u0027s premier research universities. Ranked seventh among\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s\u003C\/em\u003E top public universities and the eighth\u0026nbsp;best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University\u0027s Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech\u2019s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation\u0027s top producers of women and minority engineers.\u0026nbsp;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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EU.S. News\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;rankings of the undergraduate engineering programs accredited by ABET are based solely on the peer judgments of deans and senior faculty who rated each program they are familiar with on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). Engineering school deans and faculty members (two surveys were sent to each ABET-accredited engineering program) were surveyed in spring 2012 for this ranking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe have separate rankings for\u0026nbsp;undergraduate engineering programs\u0026nbsp;at colleges that offer doctoral degrees in engineering and for\u0026nbsp;engineering programs\u0026nbsp;at colleges whose terminal degree in engineering is a bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s. Research at the graduate level often influences the undergraduate curriculum, and engineering schools with doctoral programs in engineering tend to have the widest possible range of offerings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe peer assessment surveys were conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-09-17 17:27:44","changed_gmt":"2012-09-17 21:29:19","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}