Why Georgia Tech?

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Tech's campus occupies 330 acres in the heart of the lively, progressive city of Atlanta, where more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically-based education.

Georgia Tech offers many nationally recognized, top-ranked programs, and our students learn from world-class teachers and scholars working at the frontiers of science and technology. The Institute consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public universities in the United States; it also consistently ranks as a top producer of African-American engineers. In a world that increasingly turns to technology for solutions, Georgia Tech is using innovative teaching and advanced research to define the technological university of the 21st century.

And, keep in mind, Georgia Tech is one of the top ranked universities outside of California with warm weather.

The School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences currently has 29 faculty, 89 graduate students, and 50 undergraduate students. The EAS faculty has achieved considerable national and international recognition. The undergraduate curriculum provides flexibility to focus on a range of areas within Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, including weather and climate dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and air quality, oceanography, aqueous geochemistry and biogeochemistry, paleoclimatology, geophysics, and space and planetary physics. Major integrating research themes for the School are climate variability and change, natural resources and environmental quality, and natural hazards and extreme events. Students also have the opportunity to investigate interdisciplinary research topics that interface with civil and environmental engineering, aerospace engineering, public policy, public health, biology, and chemistry, and other areas as well. EAS is located in a 284,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art Environmental Sciences and Technology building. In addition, students have an opportunity to do field work both locally and world wide. There are also opportunities to interact with a broad range of local government agencies and commercial companies.

The vision of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is:

To lead in innovative research and educate the future leaders in earth and atmospheric sciences for the 21st century, within the context of a premier technological research university. 

The mission of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is to realize the vision through building pillars of excellence in the following three areas: 

  • Breakthrough discoveries through research in earth and atmospheric sciences as well as in interdisciplinary research involving the earth system and the environment
  • Vibrant learning experiences and environments that prepare students to pioneer the advancement of knowledge in earth and atmospheric sciences and become the future leaders of academia, government and industry
  • Public engagement that applies our research to inform public policy, resource management, environmental sustainability, and economic development, both locally and internationally.

Here are some links that will give you some more reasons to consider Georgia Tech, and EAS, as your "top choice" for a quality education in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.