GTRI and Georgia Tech: A great complement, a greater synergy

GTRI and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) are complementary world-class institutions that collaborate to solve the innovation equation on behalf of clients. This combination provides unmatched expertise, capabilities and know-how in solving some of the toughest problems facing government and industry.

• GTRI is the largest employer of Georgia Tech students, hiring more than 200 each year.
• GTRI operates a number of multidisciplinary research centers that facilitate research collaboration with Georgia Tech’s academic colleges.
• Nearly 40 GTRI researchers hold joint appointments with Georgia Tech’s academic colleges.
• GTRI researchers hold top level leadership positions on the Georgia Tech Faculty Council.

When customers work with GTRI, they get much more than the world-class expertise and experience of a leading research institution. They also open the door to the vast intellectual resources of one of America’s leading research universities, Georgia Tech.

• Georgia Tech is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & World Report's listing of America's top ten public universities. The magazine also ranked Georgia Tech's College of Engineering in the nation's top five.
• Georgia Tech is second in the nation in engineering research expenditures, both overall and in federal funding.
• Georgia Tech is home to or partner in nineteen federal centers of excellence, up from six in 1997. They range from photonics to the engineering of living tissues.
• Global analysis of university biotechnology commercialization by the Milken Institute ranked Georgia Tech fourth in the number of biotechnology startup companies and eighth in patents awarded.