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GA tech is ranked top 4 for best grad schools in usnews. Surely it’s as good as UMAA and or UIUC
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<p>Depends on which engineering field. In a field like industrial engineering, they are darn good. Of course it helps immensely that Georgia Tech is near the largest shipping company in the world (UPS) and industrial engineering is basically optimizations of operations and supply-chains, which is a core competency of UPS, so lots of Georgia Tech industrial engineers come from and go back to working at UPS. It also helps immensely that several high-profile engineering schools, most notably MIT and Caltech, don’t have industrial engineering as a separate discipline (MIT subsumes it into its Civil Engineering department and I don’t think Caltech has it at all).</p>