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103-599: The National University of Singapore ( NUS ) is a national public research university in Singapore . It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University . The university offers degree programmes in disciplines at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in the sciences, medicine and dentistry, design and environment, law, arts and social sciences, engineering, business, computing, and music. NUS's main campus

206-459: A yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 41.8%. Of the 53% of the incoming freshman class who submitted SAT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1370–1520. Of the 36% of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted ACT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 31 and 35. Georgia Tech's freshman retention rate is 97.3%, with 92% going on to graduate within six years. In

309-515: A Fulbright Scholar in Russia 2004–2005. Women constituted 30.3% of the undergraduates and 25.3% of the graduate students enrolled in Spring 2009. In 1959, a meeting of 2,741 students voted by an overwhelming majority to endorse integration of qualified applicants, regardless of race. Three years after the meeting, and one year after the University of Georgia's violent integration , Georgia Tech became

412-670: A computer lab, a game room ("Tech Rec"), the Student Post Office, a music venue, a movie theater , the Food Court, plus meeting rooms for various clubs and organizations. Adjacent to the eastern entrance of the Student Center is the Kessler Campanile (which is referred to by students as "The Shaft"). The former Hightower Textile Engineering building was demolished in 2002 to create Yellow Jacket Park. More greenspace now occupies

515-536: A cost of $ 179 million, the district was built over run-down neighborhoods and has sparked a revitalization of the entire Midtown area. Connected by the recently renovated Fifth Street Bridge, it is a pedestrian-friendly area comprising Georgia Tech facilities and retail locations. One complex contains the College of Business Building, holding classrooms and office space for the Scheller College of Business, as well as

618-709: A depth of experience about science and the way it is carried out." The NUS Faculty of Law was first established as a Department of Law in the University of Malaya in 1956. The first law students were admitted to the Bukit Timah campus of the university the following year. In 1980, the faculty shifted to the Kent Ridge campus, but in 2006 it relocated back to the Bukit Timah site. The faculty offers LLB, LLM, JD, and PhD programmes, alongside continuing education and graduate certificate programmes. The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS

721-544: A four-year term and was reappointed in 1979, but resigned after one year to allow Koh Lip Lin to continue his post. In 1980, University of Singapore merged with Nanyang University to form NUS, resulting in overlapping posts. The NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS) was established in 2003. The principal purpose of NGS is "to promote integrative PhD research encompassing both laboratory work and coursework programmes which not only transcend traditional subject boundaries but also provides students with

824-583: A group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities to petition the governor of the Straits Settlements , Sir John Anderson , to establish a medical school in Singapore. It was noted by Anderson that there were other petitions prior which were not successful due to concerns over having a sufficient number of students and support from the local community. Tan, who was the first president of

927-682: A growing focus on advanced technological and scientific research. Under President Blake Ragsdale Van Leer 's tenure, Tech went through a significant change, expanded its campus with new facilities, added new engineering courses, and became the largest engineering institute in the South and the third largest in the US. Van Leer also admitted the first female students to regular classes in 1952 and began steps toward integration. He stood up to Georgia governor Marvin Griffin 's demand to bar Bobby Grier from participating in

1030-553: A network of one-way streets which connects West Campus to Ferst Drive, the main road of the campus. Woodruff Dining Hall, or "Woody's", was the West Campus Dining Hall, before closing after the opening of West Village. It connected the Woodruff North and Woodruff South undergraduate dorms. East Campus houses all of the fraternities and sororities as well as most of the undergraduate freshman dormitories. East Campus abuts

1133-588: A number of skyscrapers—most visibly the headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company , and Bank of America —are visible from all points on campus, the campus itself has few buildings over four stories and has a great deal of greenery. This gives it a distinctly suburban atmosphere quite different from other Atlanta campuses such as that of Georgia State University . The campus is organized into four main parts: West Campus, East Campus, Central Campus, and Technology Square. West Campus and East Campus are both occupied primarily by student living complexes, while Central Campus

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1236-563: A physical campus in Savannah, Georgia . Until 2013, Georgia Tech Savannah offered undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering in conjunction with Georgia Southern University , South Georgia College , Armstrong Atlantic State University , and Savannah State University . The university further collaborated with the National University of Singapore to set up The Logistics Institute–Asia Pacific in Singapore . The campus now serves

1339-507: A separate institution from the medical school, was established to promote education in arts and social sciences. On 8 October 1949, Raffles College was merged with King Edward VII College of Medicine to form the University of Malaya . The two institutions were merged to provide for the higher education needs of the Federation of Malaya . The growth of University of Malaya was very rapid during

1442-437: A speech about the importance of technological education. He then shook hands with every student. Georgia Tech's Evening School of Commerce began holding classes in 1912. The evening school admitted its first female student in 1917, although the state legislature did not officially authorize attendance by women until 1920. Annie T. Wise became the first female graduate in 1919 and was Georgia Tech's first female faculty member

1545-432: A tiger instead of a lion), and the emblem of the former Nanyang University, three interlocking rings but without the star used since 1955. It is blazoned : Argent a lion passant guardant proper; on a chief azure dexter an open book also proper, bound, edged and clasped Or and sinister three annulets interlaced one and two Argent. The lion represents NUS as a Singaporean university, the open book represents knowledge and

1648-652: A venue for disseminating their research and a chance to become familiar with the academic publishing process. Recent developments include a proposed graphene antenna . Georgia Tech and Emory University have a strong research partnership and jointly administer the Emory-Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute. They also, along with Peking University , administer the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering . In 2015, Georgia Tech and Emory were awarded an $ 8.3 million grant by

1751-614: A wide range of disciplines. In the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject, NUS ranked among the global top 10 for 19 subjects. In the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by Subject, NUS achieved high global ranks in several subjects, being ranked 11th in Computer Science, 9th in Engineering, 11th in Law, and 15th in Business & Economics. In all subjects, NUS held

1854-582: Is a liberal arts college in Singapore established in August 2013 as a joint project of Yale University and the National University of Singapore. It is an autonomous college within NUS, allowing it greater freedom to develop its own policies while tapping on the existing facilities and resources of the main university. Students who graduate receive a degree awarded by NUS. Pericles Lewis , a former professor at Yale,

1957-641: Is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta , Georgia , United States. Established in 1885, it is part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia and Metz, France . The school was founded as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction efforts to build an industrial economy in the Southern United States after

2060-627: Is a collaboration between NUS and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University . Singapore's first conservatory of music, YSTCM was founded as the Singapore Conservatory of Music in 2001. The School was renamed Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music after a gift was made by the family of the late Dr Yong Loo Lin in memory of his daughter. The Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health is Singapore's first and only tertiary education institution for public health. The school traces its origins to

2163-753: Is a graduate medical school in Singapore. The school was set up in April 2005 as the Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore's second medical school, after the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine , and before the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine . The Duke–NUS Medical School is a collaboration between Duke University in North Carolina, United States and the National University of Singapore. The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YSTCM)

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2266-830: Is a science and business incubator , run by the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is also headquartered in Technology Square's Centergy One complex. Other Georgia Tech-affiliated buildings in the area host the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, the Advanced Technology Development Center, VentureLab, the Georgia Electronics Design Center and

2369-752: Is highly selective and designed to cater to the most intellectually curious undergraduates from all six colleges. The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution that receives funds from the State of Georgia , tuition, fees, research grants, and alumni contributions. In 2014, the Institute's revenue amounted to about $ 1.422 billion. Fifteen percent came from state appropriations and grants while 20% originated from tuition and fees. Grants and contracts accounted for 55% of all revenue. Expenditures were about $ 1.36 billion. Forty-eight percent went to research and 19% went to instruction. The Georgia Tech Foundation runs

2472-605: Is located adjacent to the Kent Ridge subzone of Queenstown . The Duke–NUS Medical School is located at the Outram campus. The Bukit Timah campus houses the Faculty of Law and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy . NUS's affiliated faculty members and researchers include one Nobel Prize laureate, one Tang Prize laureate, and one Vautrin Lud laureate. In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led

2575-509: Is located on West Campus. West Campus was formerly home to Under the Couch , which relocated to the Student Center in the fall of 2010. Also within walking distance of West Campus are several late-night eateries. West Campus was home to a convenience store, West Side Market, which closed following the opening of West Village in the fall of 2017. Due to limited space, all auto travel proceeds via

2678-449: Is modeled after a medieval church , complete with carved columns and stained glass windows showing symbolic figures. The main road leading from East Campus to Central Campus is a steep ascending incline commonly known as "Freshman Hill" (in reference to the large number of freshman dorms near its foot). On March 8, 2007, the former Georgia State University Village apartments were transferred to Georgia Tech. Renamed North Avenue Apartments by

2781-551: Is now considered "West Campus" for Tech to serve as the Olympic Village , and significantly gentrifying Midtown Atlanta . The Undergraduate Living Center, Fourth Street Apartments, Sixth Street Apartments, Eighth Street Apartments , Hemphill Apartments, and Center Street Apartments housed athletes and journalists. The Georgia Tech Aquatic Center was built for swimming events, and the Alexander Memorial Coliseum

2884-502: Is organizationally under the Executive Vice President for Research, Stephen E. Cross , who reports directly to the institute president. Nine "interdisciplinary research institutes" report to him, with all research centers, laboratories and interdisciplinary research activities at Georgia Tech reporting through one of those institutes. The oldest of those research institutes is a nonprofit research organization referred to as

2987-672: Is provided by part-time student employees. Georgia Tech's undergraduate and graduate programs are divided into six colleges. Georgia Tech has sought to expand its undergraduate and graduate offerings in less technical fields, primarily those under the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts , which saw a 20% increase in admissions in 2008. Also, even in the Ivan Allen College, the Institute does not offer Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees, only Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. Georgia Tech's honors program

3090-437: Is reserved primarily for teaching and research buildings. West Campus is occupied primarily by apartments and coed undergraduate dormitories. Apartments include Crecine , Center Street , 6th Street, Maulding, Graduate Living Center (GLC), and Eighth Street Apartments, while dorms include Freeman , Montag , Fitten , Folk , Caldwell , Armstrong, Hefner, Fulmer , and Woodruff Suites. The Campus Recreation Center (formerly

3193-656: The Advanced Technology Development Center and VentureLab ready to assist Georgia Tech's researchers and entrepreneurs in organization and commercialization. The Georgia Tech Research Corporation serves as Georgia Tech's contract and technology licensing agency. Georgia Tech is ranked fourth for startup companies, eighth in patents, and eleventh in technology transfer by the Milken Institute . Georgia Tech and GTRI devote 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m ) of space to research purposes, including

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3296-465: The Civil War . Initially, it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. By 1901, its curriculum had expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineering. In 1948, the school changed its name to reflect its evolution from a trade school to a technical institute and research university . Georgia Tech is organized into six colleges with about 31 departments and academic units. It emphasizes

3399-511: The College of Computing , the College of Sciences , and the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy, and International Affairs. Crecine never asked for input regarding the changes and, consequently, many faculty members disliked his top-down management style; despite this, the changes passed by a slim margin. Crecine was also instrumental in securing the 1996 Summer Olympics for Atlanta. A large amount of construction occurred, creating most of what

3502-567: The Downtown Connector , granting residences quick access to Midtown and its businesses (for example, The Varsity ) via a number of bridges over the highway. Georgia Tech football's home, Bobby Dodd Stadium is located on East Campus, as well as Georgia Tech basketball's home, McCamish Pavilion (formerly Alexander Memorial Coliseum). Brittain Dining Hall and North Ave Dining Hall are the main dining halls for East Campus. Britain Dining Hall

3605-529: The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar, electro-optics, and materials engineering. Around 40% (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research, especially government-funded classified work, is conducted through this counterpart organization. GTRI employs around 3,000 people and had $ 941 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023. The other institutes include:

3708-432: The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and returned the College of Management to "College" status (Crecine, the previous president, had demoted Management from "College" to "School" status as part of a controversial 1990 reorganization plan). His tenure focused on a dramatic expansion of the institute, a revamped Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the creation of an International Plan. On March 15, 2008, he

3811-613: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a National Exposure Assessment Laboratory. In July 2015, Georgia Tech, Emory, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta were awarded a four-year, $ 1.8 million grant by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in order to expand the Atlanta Cystic Fibrosis Research and Development Program. In 2015, the two universities received a five-year, $ 2.9 million grant from

3914-667: The National Science Foundation (NSF) to create new bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs and concentrations in healthcare robotics , which will be the first program of its kind in the Southeastern United States. The Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation & Research Center is an initiative between the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering , the Ecuador National Secretariat of Science and Technology , and

4017-866: The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience , the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute, the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, the Institute of Paper Science and Technology , Institute for Materials and the Institute for People and Technology. Many startup companies are produced through research conducted at Georgia Tech, with

4120-831: The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2024, #26 in the USNWR 2022–2023 Best Global Universities Rankings, #71 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2023, #29 in the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2020, and #26 in the Informatics Institute/ METU 's University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) 2022–2023. NUS was the 27th best-ranked university worldwide in terms of aggregate performance across THE, QS, and ARWU, as reported by ARTU 2023. QS has ranked NUS among

4223-406: The 1956 Sugar Bowl game between Georgia Tech and Grier's University of Pittsburgh . After Van Leer's death, his wife Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer bought a house on campus and opened it to female students to support their success. She also set up the first sorority on campus along with a Society of Women Engineers chapter. In 1968 women could enroll in all programs at Tech. Industrial Management

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4326-709: The 1980s, with the setting up of the Centre for Management of Innovation and Technopreneurship in 1988. In 2001, this was renamed the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre (NEC), and became a division of NUS Enterprise. NEC is currently headed by Wong Poh Kam and its activities are organised into four areas, including a business incubator, experiential education, entrepreneurship development and entrepreneurship research. NUS has 17 faculties and schools across three campus locations in Singapore – Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram. NUS also collaborates with many other Universities around

4429-778: The 2020–2021 academic year, 95 freshman students were National Merit Scholars which was the highest in Georgia. The institute is need-blind for domestic applicants. In 2017, Georgia Tech announced valedictorians and salutatorians from Georgia's accredited public and private high schools with 50 or more graduates will be the only students offered automatic undergraduate admission via its Georgia Tech Scholars Program. In 2021 U.S. News & World Report named Georgia Tech 3rd worldwide for both its Bachelor's in Analytics and Master of Science in Business Analytics degree programs. Also in

4532-1005: The 2021 Times Higher Education subject rankings, Georgia Tech ranked 12th for engineering and 13th for computer science in the world. Tech's undergraduate engineering program was ranked 4th in the United States and its graduate engineering program ranked 8th by U.S. News & World Report for 2021. Tech's graduate engineering program rankings are aerospace (4th), biomedical/bioengineering (2nd), chemical (tied for 5th), civil (tied for 3rd), computer (tied for 6th), electrical (tied for 6th), environmental (tied for 5th), industrial (1st), materials (9th), mechanical (tied for 5th), and nuclear (9th). Tech's undergraduate computer science program ranked 5th and its graduate computer science program ranked 8th. Other graduate computer science program rankings are artificial intelligence (7th), theory (9th), systems (10th), and programming language (16th) Also for 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Tech 13th in

4635-539: The American Civil War. The surrender of the city took place in 1864 on what is today the southwestern boundary of the Georgia Tech campus. The Georgia School of Technology opened in the fall of 1888 with two buildings. One building (now Tech Tower , an administrative headquarters) had classrooms to teach students; The second building featured a shop and had a foundry , forge , boiler room , and engine room. It

4738-567: The Built Environment; and the Division of Industrial Design. The Faculty of Engineering was established in 1968. It is the largest faculty in the university, and consists of several departments spanning diverse engineering fields. The interdisciplinary College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS) was established in 2020. It comprises the two largest faculties, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and

4841-689: The Bursar's Office, are also located on the Central Campus, in the recently renovated Georgia Tech Historic District. The campus library , the John Lewis Student Center (formerly the Fred B. Wenn Building), and the Student Services Building ("Flag Building") are also located on Central Campus. The Student Center provides a variety of recreational and social functions for students including:

4944-432: The College of Computing has a similar program with the Barcelona School of Informatics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain . There are additional programs in Athlone, Ireland , Shanghai, China , and Singapore . Georgia Tech was supposed to have set up two campuses for research and graduate education in the cities of Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad, Telangana , India by 2010, but it appeared

5047-426: The Engineering Experiment Station (later known as the Georgia Tech Research Institute ) was founded by W. Harry Vaughan with an initial budget of $ 5,000 (equivalent to $ 113,881 in 2023) and 13 part-time faculty. In the mid to late 40s, President Blake Van Leer had a focus on making Georgia Tech the " MIT of the South." Van Leer lobbied government and business for funds for new facilities. The Research Building

5150-417: The Faculty of Science, though both faculties are still branded independently, unlike CDE. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has roots in Raffles College. Initially offering just four subjects: English, History, Geography and Economics, the Faculty now offers majors, minors and special programmes across 16 Departments. This includes the Centre for Language Studies, which teaches 13 different languages, and

5253-404: The Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2022. NUS also offers MBA double degrees in collaboration with overseas universities such as Peking University , HEC Paris , and Yale University . The School of Computing established in 1998, has two departments: Computer Science; and Information Systems and Analytics. The Faculty of Dentistry traces its origins in 1929 as a Department of Dentistry within

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5356-483: The Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center and the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. Another part of Tech Square, the privately owned Centergy One complex, contains the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB), holding faculty and graduate student offices for the College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , as well as the GVU Center , a multidisciplinary technology research center. The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)

5459-458: The King Edward VII College of Medicine. The faculty conducts a four-year dental course leading to a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree. The interdisciplinary College of Design and Engineering (CDE) was established in 2021, bringing together two pre-existing faculties, the School of Design and Environment (SDE) and the Faculty of Engineering (FoE). The School of Design and Environment has three departments: Department of Architecture; Department of

5562-493: The Northeast to learn how technology schools worked. They were impressed by the polytechnic educational models developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science (now Worcester Polytechnic Institute ). The committee recommended adapting the Worcester model, which stressed a combination of "theory and practice", the "practice" component including student employment and production of consumer items to generate revenue for

5665-402: The Office of Programmes, which houses multidisciplinary fields and minor programmes. The South Asian Studies Programme is not officially classified as a department, but as a departmental entity. The Faculty of Science comprises multiple departments, spanning across natural and applied sciences. The first female Dean of the Faculty of Science was Gloria Lim , who was appointed in 1973. She served

5768-411: The President's Undergraduate Research Awards, take the form of student salaries or help cover travel expenses when students present their work at professional meetings. Additionally, undergraduates may participate in research and write a thesis to earn a "Research Option" credit on their transcripts . An undergraduate research journal, The Tower , was established in 2007 to provide undergraduates with

5871-423: The QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022. NUS has a semester-based modular system for conducting undergraduate courses. It adopts features of the British system, such as small group teaching ( tutorials ) on top of regular two-hour lectures, and the American system ( course credits ). NUS has 17 faculties and schools across three campuses, including a music conservatory. The University Scholars Programme (USP)

5974-447: The School of Mathematics and the School of Literature, Media and Culture; the D. M. Smith Building, which houses the School of Public Policy; and the Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building. In 2005, the School of Modern Languages returned to the Swann Building, a 100-year-old former dormitory that now houses some of the most technology-equipped classrooms on campus. Tech's administrative buildings, such as Tech Tower, and

6077-436: The Straits Chinese British Association, managed to raise 87,077 Straits dollars from the community, including a personal donation of $ 12,000. On 3 July 1905, the medical school was founded and was known as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School . At Anderson's directions, the school was hosted temporarily at a recently emptied block at a Government-run asylum in Pasir Panjang while providing

6180-427: The Student Athletic Complex); a volleyball court; a large, low natural green area known as the Burger Bowl ; and a flat artificial green area known as the CRC (formerly SAC) Fields are all located on the western side of the campus. In 2017, West Village, a multipurpose facility featuring dining options, meeting space, School of Music classrooms, and offices to West Campus, opened. The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum

6283-403: The United States for most innovative university. Georgia Tech is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The National Science Foundation ranked Georgia Tech 20th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $ 1.11 billion. Much of this research is funded by large corporations or governmental organizations. Research

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6386-706: The United States, the term "national university" connotes the highest institutional level in education, differing in meaning from a "federally-chartered university." In the US, "national university" denotes regionally-outstanding institutions with at least a national admissions strategy, receipt of largescale grants, international research activity, endowments above $ 350 million, and regional excellence with respective prestige. Some prominent American public national universities include UVA , UF , and Indiana ; while some prominent American private national universities include Penn , WUSTL , Cornell , and MIT . The concept of national American universities arguably has its origins in

6489-418: The University of Malaya's Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, formed in 1948. The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was established in 2004 as an autonomous graduate school of NUS. Although the School was formally launched in 2004, it inherited NUS's Public Policy Programme, which was established in 1992 in partnership with Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. The Yale-NUS College

6592-568: The academic fields of science and technology. Georgia Tech fields eight men's and seven women's sports teams; these compete in NCAA Division I athletics and have won five national championships. The university is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference . The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in

6695-442: The area around the Kessler Campanile for a more aesthetically pleasing look, in accordance with the official Campus Master Plan. In August 2011, the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons opened next to the library and occupies part of the Yellow Jacket Park area. Technology Square , also known as "Tech Square", is located across the Downtown Connector and embedded in the city east of East Campus. Opened in August 2003 at

6798-400: The birth of the Association of American Universities , however this association does not encapsulate all national universities in the United States. Some of the US's federally-chartered places of higher education include: Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech and GT or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or the Institute )

6901-419: The divisions into that of a national university. Legislation was passed in 1961, establishing the former Kuala Lumpur division as the University of Malaya, while the Singapore division was renamed the University of Singapore on 1 January 1962. The National University of Singapore (NUS) was formed with the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University on 6 August 1980. This was done in part due to

7004-463: The exception of a few computer labs maintained by individual colleges , OIT is responsible for most of the computing facilities on campus. Student, faculty, and staff e-mail accounts are among its services. Georgia Tech's ResNet provides free technical support to all students and guests living in Georgia Tech's on-campus housing (excluding fraternities and sororities). ResNet is responsible for network, telephone, and television service, and most support

7107-409: The first decade of its establishment and resulted in the setting up of two autonomous divisions in 1959, one located in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur . In 1955, Nanyang University (abbreviated Nan-tah, 南大) was established on the backdrop of the Chinese community in Singapore. In 1960, the governments of then Federation of Malaya and Singapore indicated their desire to change the status of

7210-443: The first university in the Deep South to desegregate without a court order. In the 1967–68 academic year 28 students out of 7,526 were black. In 1968, William Peace became the first black instructor and Marle Carter became the first black member of the homecoming court. In 1964, Dr. Calvin Huey became the first black player to play at Grant Field when he took the field for Navy . The first black person to play for Georgia Tech

7313-409: The following year. In 1931, the Board of Regents transferred control of the Evening School of Commerce to the University of Georgia (UGA) and moved the civil and electrical engineering courses at UGA to Tech. Tech replaced the commerce school with what later became the College of Business . The commerce school would later split from UGA and eventually become Georgia State University . In 1934,

7416-537: The government of Panama that aims to enhance Panama's logistics capabilities and performance through a number of research and education initiatives. The center is creating models of country level logistics capabilities that will support the decision-making process for future investments and trade opportunities in the growing region and has established dual degree programs in the University of Panama and other Panamanian universities with Georgia Tech. A similar center in Singapore, The Centre for Next Generation Logistics,

7519-496: The government's desire to pool the two institutions' resources into a single, stronger entity and promote English as Singapore's main language of education. The original crest of Nanyang University with three intertwined rings was incorporated into the new coat-of-arms of NUS. Most departments of the university were situated at the Bukit Timah campus, with the gradual shift to the Kent Ridge site starting in 1969 and completed in 1986. NUS began its entrepreneurial education endeavours in

7622-568: The institute are the same as those in Atlanta. In September 2024, Georgia Tech announced that it was ending its partnership with Tianjin University following U.S. congressional scrutiny of potential ties to the People's Liberation Army . The College of Design (formerly College of Architecture) maintains a small permanent presence in Paris in affiliation with the École d'architecture de Paris-La Villette and

7725-992: The institute's hub for professional and continuing education and is home to the regional offices of the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, the Savannah Advanced Technology Development Center , and the Georgia Logistics Innovation Center. Georgia Tech also operates a campus in Metz , in northeastern France, known as Georgia Tech Europe (GTE). Opened in October 1990, it offers master's-level courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering , Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. coursework in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Georgia Tech Europe

7828-702: The institute, they began housing students in the fall semester of 2007. Central Campus is home to the majority of the academic, research, and administrative buildings. The Central Campus includes, among others: the Howey Physics Building; the Boggs Chemistry Building; the College of Computing Building; the Klaus Advanced Computing Building ; the College of Design Building; the Skiles Classroom Building, which houses

7931-506: The new CODA (mixed-use development) . Technology Square also hosts a variety of restaurants and businesses, including the headquarters of notable consulting companies like Accenture and also including the official Institute bookstore, a Barnes & Noble bookstore, and a Georgia Tech-themed Waffle House . In 1999, Georgia Tech began offering local degree programs to engineering students in Southeast Georgia, and in 2003 established

8034-553: The new $ 90 million Marcus Nanotechnology Building , one of the largest nanotechnology research facilities in the Southeastern United States with over 30,000 square feet (2,800 m ) of clean room space. Georgia Tech encourages undergraduates to participate in research alongside graduate students and faculty. The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program awards scholarships each semester to undergraduates who pursue research activities. These scholarships, called

8137-496: The option for advanced credits with a MicroMasters in collaboration with edX . On January 7, 2019, President G.P. Bud Peterson announced his intention to retire. Angel Cabrera , former President of George Mason University and Georgia Tech alum, was named his successor on June 13, 2019. Cabrera took office on September 3, 2019. The Georgia Tech campus is located in Midtown, an area slightly north of downtown Atlanta . Although

8240-451: The plans had been set on hold as of 2011 . Georgia Tech Cable Network , or GTCN, is the college's branded cable source. Most non-original programming is obtained from Dish Network . GTCN currently has 100  standard-definition channels and 23  high-definition channels. The Office of Information Technology, or OIT, manages most of the Institute's computing resources (and some related services such as campus telephones). With

8343-404: The school. On October 13, 1885, Georgia Governor Henry D. McDaniel signed the bill to create and fund the new school. In 1887, Atlanta pioneer Richard Peters donated to the state 4 acres (1.6 ha) of the site of a failed garden suburb called Peters Park . The site was bounded on the south by North Avenue , and on the west by Cherry Street. He then sold five adjoining acres of land to

8446-492: The staff required to run the school. In 1912, the medical school received an endowment of $ 120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Fund, started by physician Lim Boon Keng . Subsequently, on 18 November 1913, the name of the school was changed to King Edward VII Medical School . In 1921, it was again changed to King Edward VII College of Medicine to reflect its academic status. In 1928, Raffles College,

8549-515: The state for US$ 10,000, (equivalent to $ 340,000 in 2023). This land was near Atlanta's northern city limits at the time of its founding, although the city has since expanded several miles beyond it. A historical marker on the large hill in Central Campus says that the site occupied by the school's first buildings once held fortifications to protect Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign of

8652-561: The three rings represents the university's role in creating, imparting and applying knowledge, as well as creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. The National University of Singapore is one of two public universities in Singapore to adopt its coat of arms, alongside the Nanyang Technological University , with which it has relations. Globally, NUS was #8 in the QS World University Rankings 2025, #19 in

8755-573: The top 50. In 2015, the university received a $ 30 million grant from Atlanta philanthropist Diana Blank to build the "most environmentally-sound building ever constructed in the Southeast ." The 2022 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report categorizes Georgia Institute of Technology as "most selective." For the Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), Georgia Tech received 45,388 applications and accepted 8,308 (18.3%). Of those accepted, 3,471 enrolled,

8858-614: The top spot nationally. In the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, NUS exhibited strong global standing, being ranked among the global top 30 in 22 subjects. In most subjects, NUS achieved a national rank of 1. NUS's performance in the Business School Rankings by Financial Times: NUS graduates ranked 8th worldwide in the Times Higher Education's Global University Employability Ranking 2022, and 17th worldwide in

8961-604: The town of Macon, Georgia , after the Civil War , believed that the South needed to improve its technology to compete with the North's industrialization . Because the American South of that era was mainly populated by agricultural workers and few technical developments were occurring, they proposed to establish a technology school. In 1882, the Georgia State Legislature authorized a committee, led by Harris, to visit

9064-488: The university's endowment and was incorporated in 1932. It includes several wholly owned subsidiaries that own land on campus or in Midtown and lease the land back to the Georgia Board of Regents and other companies and organizations. Assets totaled $ 1.882 billion and liabilities totaled $ 0.478 billion in 2014. As of 2007, Georgia Tech had the most generous alumni donor base, percentage wise, of any public university ranked in

9167-563: The university's honors college, with a more rigorous application and a focus on global citizenship. The NUS College program notably involves foreign, service-based exchange around South-East Asia, guided by their core ideal that "Learning is a contact sport." The NUS Business School was founded as the Department of Business Administration in 1965. The NUS Business School ranks 6th in the Forbes "The Best International MBAs: Two-Year Programs" and 21st in

9270-545: The world's top 15 since 2016. THE has ranked NUS among the world's top 30 since 2013. The joint THE–QS World University Rankings from 2004 to 2009 ranked NUS globally 18th (2004), 22nd (2005), 19th (2006), 33rd (2007), 30th (2008 and 2009). NUS was 19th in the THE World Reputation Rankings 2022, and was named the world's 10th most international university by THE in 2023. The World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University features numerous NUS researchers from

9373-479: The world, such as the Georgia Institute of Technology . The coat of arms of the National University of Singapore was adopted in 1980 and modernised in 2001. It is the combination of the coat of arms of the former University of Singapore used since 1962 (consisting of an open book and a lion, which itself was derived from the former coat of arms of the University of Malaya used from 1949 until 1962, which featured

9476-676: Was Eddie McAshan in 1970. Similarly, there was little student reaction at Georgia Tech to the Vietnam War and United States involvement in the Cambodian Civil War . The student council defeated a resolution supporting the Vietnam Moratorium , and the extent of the Tech community's response to the Kent State shooting was limited to a student-organized memorial service, though the institute

9579-651: Was an undergraduate academic programme established in 2001 in NUS, which comprised a compulsory general education programme. USP admitted 240 undergraduates annually. USP students resided in Cinnamon College at the NUS University Town. This programme has since merged with Yale-NUS to become the NUS College. A modernized version of the University Scholars Programme, the NUS College today serves as

9682-612: Was appointed as the founding president in 2012. In August 2021, NUS announced that it was going to merge Yale-NUS College with the University Scholars Programme to form a new honours college, NUS College, by 2025. The merger marks the dissolution of NUS's partnership with Yale University. The last class of Yale-NUS College students were those admitted in 2021, following which Yale-NUS would operate for several years until all of its students have graduated. National university Central Universities of India Among dozens of public universities, including six research universities: In

9785-480: Was appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution , effective July 1, 2008. Dr. Gary Schuster , Tech's provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, was named interim president, effective July 1, 2008. On April 1, 2009, G. P. "Bud" Peterson , previously the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder , became the 11th president of Georgia Tech. On April 20, 2010, Georgia Tech

9888-431: Was designed for students to work and produce goods to sell and fund the school. The two buildings were equal in size to show the importance of teaching both the mind and the hands, though, at the time, there was some disagreement to whether the machine shop should have been used to turn a profit. On October 20, 1905, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt visited Georgia Tech. On the steps of Tech Tower, Roosevelt delivered

9991-422: Was expanded, and a $ 300,000 (equivalent to $ 4,000,000 in 2023) Westinghouse A-C network calculator was given to Georgia Tech by Georgia Power in 1947. A new $ 2,000,000 library was completed, new Textile and Architecture buildings completed and at the time the most modern gymnasium in the world was built. Founded as the Georgia School of Technology, Georgia Tech assumed its present name in 1948 to reflect

10094-689: Was first established as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905. The School uses the British undergraduate medical system, offering a full-time undergraduate programme leading to a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). For Nursing, the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) conducted by the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies is offered. The department also offers postgraduate programmes in nursing, medicine, and medical science. The Duke–NUS Medical School (Duke–NUS)

10197-524: Was invited to join the Association of American Universities , the first new member institution in nine years. In 2014, Georgia Tech launched the first "massive online open degree" in computer science by partnering with Udacity and AT&T; a complete degree through that program costs students $ 7,000. It eventually expanded this program with its online masters in analytics in January 2017, as well as providing

10300-403: Was ordered closed for two days, along with all other University System of Georgia schools. In 1988, President John Patrick Crecine pushed through a restructuring of the university. The institute at that point had three colleges: the College of Engineering , the College of Management , and the catch-all COSALS, the College of Sciences and Liberal Arts. Crecine reorganized the latter two into

10403-417: Was renovated. The institute also erected the Kessler Campanile and fountain to serve as a landmark and symbol of the university on television broadcasts. In 1994, G. Wayne Clough became the first Georgia Tech alumnus to serve as the president of institution; he was in office during the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 1998, he separated the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy, and International Affairs into

10506-626: Was the defendant in a lawsuit pertaining to the language used in advertisements, which was a violation of the Toubon Law . Georgia Tech and Tianjin University cooperatively operated a campus in Shenzhen , Guangdong , China — Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute, Tianjin University . Launched in 2014, the institute offered undergraduate and graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering, analytics, computer science, environmental engineering, and industrial design. Admission and degree requirements at

10609-536: Was the last program to open to women. The first women's dorm, Fulmer Hall, opened in 1969. Rena Faye Smith, appointed as a research assistant in the School of Physics in 1969 by Dr. Ray Young, in X-Ray Diffraction, became the first female faculty member (research) in the School of Physics. She went on to earn a Ph.D. at Georgia State University and taught physics and instructional technology at Black Hills State University – 1997–2005 as Rena Faye Norby. She served as

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