+114%
Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus are 114% above the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($102.8k vs $48.1k).
Georgia · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia. 18,260 undergraduate students. 134 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Georgia Tech
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (0.4% → 0.0%).
+25%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus rose 25% between 2021 and 2024 (51.0% → 63.6%).
+14%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus rose 13% between 2021 and 2024 (16.6k → 18.8k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Georgia
Each tile compares this institution to the Georgia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$102,772+15% · 6→10y
Georgia median $38,208$89,432
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry92.3%+17% · '97→'09
Georgia median 41.6%$20,000+141% · '97→'20
At program completion18,260+99% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS97.7%+7% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time16.5%-74% · '01→'24
latest cohort$11,764+249% · '01→'24
out-of-state $32,876SECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
2.6%Median federal debt $20,000 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $102,772 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+130%
Georgia Tech · completion · 100% rose
27.7% → 63.6%
+99%
Georgia Tech · undergrad enrollment rose
9,453 → 18,785
+249%
Georgia Tech · in-state tuition rose
$3,454 → $12,058
+179%
Georgia Tech · out-of-state tuition rose
$12,350 → $34,484
+141%
Georgia Tech · median debt rose
$9,005 → $21,672
-100%
Georgia Tech · cohort default rate fell
2.0% → 0.0%
+44%
Georgia Tech · earnings_median_10yr rose
$71,400 → $102,772
+49%
Georgia Tech · earnings_median_8yr rose
$63,700 → $94,647
+62%
Georgia Tech · earnings_median_6yr rose
$55,300 → $89,432
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
Computer and Information Sciences, General.$191,919Business Administration, Management and Operations.$170,061Computer and Information Sciences, General.$155,126Computer Science.$149,706Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$147,708Computer Engineering.$131,153Architectural Sciences and Technology.$125,345Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.$122,569Industrial Engineering.$118,425Mechanical Engineering.$116,793Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$109,110Biomedical/Medical Engineering.$102,958Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.$101,967Chemical Engineering.$101,692Nuclear Engineering.$98,613Mechanical Engineering.$98,607Business Administration, Management and Operations.$96,355Civil Engineering.$94,138Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.$91,748Civil Engineering.$91,461Design and Applied Arts.$91,029Materials Engineering$89,572Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.$86,952Physics.$81,584
Showing top 24 of 31 ranked programs.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
31 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
Mechanical Engineering.$98,607Industrial Engineering.$118,425Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$147,708Biomedical/Medical Engineering.$102,958Mechanical Engineering.$116,793Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.$101,967Chemical Engineering.$101,692Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$109,110Computer Engineering.$131,153Civil Engineering.$91,461Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.$122,569Civil Engineering.$94,138Materials Engineering$89,572Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.$86,952Nuclear Engineering.$98,613
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
PHYSICAL SCIENCES · CIP 40
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
ARCHITECTURE · CIP 04
COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM · CIP 09
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Georgia Tech
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
$2,793,882
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 6
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $13,349
- HS-only baseline · GA
- $35,800
- Years to complete
- 6
- CIP family
- 11
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Georgia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Georgia Tech graduates earn $X” — not “Georgia Tech makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Georgia Tech caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.