School Profile & Rankings

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology is consistently ranked as one of the nation's most prominent programs of its kind in both graduate and undergraduate education. The School was originally established in 1898, and it has become the second largest civil and environmental engineering program in the country, offering a broad range of academic opportunities and strategic research initiatives within the field. 

CEE has sixty tenure-track faculty members who are leading experts in their respective disciplines. Our faculty are grouped by areas of affinity, based on their expertise.  CEE's affinity groups include:  Construction Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources; Geosystems Engineering; Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials; and Transportation Systems Engineering.

CEE faculty and students collaborate within and across the affinity groups as well as with other faculty and students across campus. This cross-disciplinary approach to research enables us to address the complex challenges of the 21st Century.  Some of the critical areas in which our faculty work include disaster-resilient infrastructure systems, water and air quality, energy production and carbon management, safety of structures, bridges and transportation systems, and sustainable materials, to name a few.

CEE at Georgia Tech is a very diverse learning environment that is committed to leading the transformation of education to solve problems critical to improving quality of life. As our School Vision states "People are our priority, and the world is our laboratory."

Quick Facts

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CEE offers 7 DEGREES:

  • Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
  • Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering
  • Master of Science
  • Master of Science in Civil Engineering
  • Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
  • Master of Science in Engineering Science and Mechanics
  • Doctor of Philosophy

ENROLLMENT (as of Fall 2012):  786 UNDERGRADUATE students and 350 GRADUATE students

54 full-time FACULTY members

STUDENT/FACULTY ratio: 15 to 1

26 LABORATORIES

$16M in SPONSORED RESEARCH

HIGHEST JOB PLACEMENT RATE on campus for CEE undergraduates

CEE GRADUATED more than 200 undergraduates in 2011-2012

CEE’s STUDENT ADVISING PROGRAM ranks the highest within GT's College of Engineering

National Rankings

Georgia Tech is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & World Report's listing of America's top ten public universities. Year after year, CEE and the College of Engineering have ranked in the nation's top five by U.S. News. In terms of producing African American engineering graduates, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education ranks Tech No. 1 at the doctoral level and No. 2 at the bachelor's level for the 2008-09 academic year. These impressive national rankings reflect the academic prestige long associated with the Georgia Tech curriculum.

U.S. News & World Report

2013 Rankings

  • No. 4 public university in the country
  • No. 4 graduate engineering college
  • No. 3 undergraduate engineering college
  • No. 3 undergraduate civil engineering program
  • No. 3 undergraduate environmental engineering program
  • No. 3 graduate civil engineering program
  • No. 6 graduate environmental engineering program
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bachelor's (2010)

  • No. 2 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to African American students
  • No. 2 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to all categories of minority students
  • No. 3 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to Asian American students

Master's (2010)

  • No. 4 in engineering master's degrees awarded to African American students
  • No. 4 in physical sciences master's degrees awarded to African American students
  • No. 4 in engineering master's degrees awarded to Hispanic students
  • No. 5 in engineering master's degrees awarded to all minority students
  • No. 10 in physical sciences master's degrees awarded to all minority students

Doctoral (2010)

  • No. 1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to African American students
  • No. 1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Hispanic students
  • No. 1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to Asian American students
  • No. 1 in engineering doctoral degrees awarded to all minority students