How Your Philanthropy Shapes Georgia Tech
At Georgia Tech, progress happens because of you. Since 1885, supporters like you have helped Georgia Tech advance ideas, expand access to a world-class education, and solve real-world problems. Today, your investment continues to open doors for students, empower faculty, and accelerate solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges.
Here's what your investment makes possible:
OPENING DOORS FOR STUDENTS
Each year, Georgia Tech admits more talented students than can afford to attend.
Take Kolby Roberts, a first-year student from Wrightsville, a small town in central Georgia. With the help of the Lawton M. “Mac” Nease Family Promise Scholarship, he can study mechanical engineering at his dream school. Without that scholarship support, attending Tech would not have been an option. Your gift makes stories like Roberts’ possible.
Programs like the G. Wayne Clough Georgia Tech Promise Scholarship and the Invest in the Best Scholarship Matching Challenge, which generated $100 million in endowed funding, have expanded access for thousands of students. Even so, significant financial need remains.
Your investment ensures that at Georgia Tech, potential — not cost — determines who can learn, grow, innovate, and lead.
STRENGTHENING WORLD-CLASS FACULTY
The impact of a Georgia Tech education starts with its faculty. Endowed chairs and professorships allow Georgia Tech to attract leading scholars whose teaching and research shape the future. Faculty members such as Omer Inan mentor students like Roberts and lead breakthroughs that improve patient care and health outcomes. Inan is the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair and a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering who designs medical devices and systems and translates them from the lab to patient care applications.
Your support provides vital resources for the faculty who make Georgia Tech exceptional.
ACCELERATING RESEARCH WITH REAL-WORLD IMPACT
At Georgia Tech, research is designed to move quickly from idea to application. In Fiscal Year 2025, our research enterprise reached $1.43 billion, reflecting both the scale and urgency of the work underway. From medical innovation to emerging fields like AI, researchers are addressing challenges that affect millions of lives.
Philanthropy provides the flexibility to pursue new ideas, fund early-stage discoveries, and accelerate solutions when timing matters most. Your investment helps bring meaningful innovations into the world faster.
BUILDING A CAMPUS THAT POWERS GEORGIA’S ECONOMY
Walk across Georgia Tech’s campus, and you can see philanthropy at work — from Tech Tower (officially named the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Administration Building for one of Georgia Tech's most generous benefactors) to advanced research labs, makerspaces, and innovation districts. These are more than buildings. They are where Georgia’s future workforce is trained, where lifesaving solutions are developed, and where ideas become companies.
Students gain hands-on experience in fields that drive the state’s economy, while faculty and industry partners work side by side to develop new technologies. Companies come to campus to collaborate, recruit talent, and invest — enhancing Atlanta’s position as a hub for innovation.
The impact is clear: Your generosity prepares Georgia Tech graduates to contribute, advances research that fuels business growth, and strengthens partnerships that bring jobs and investment to the state. Every investment in Georgia Tech improves Georgia’s competitiveness, driving economic growth and expanding opportunity statewide.
WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER
Demand for a Georgia Tech education continues to grow — along with the need for scholarships, fellowships, faculty support, and research investment. At the same time, new opportunities are emerging and moving quickly. Breakthroughs in health, technology, and manufacturing require resources that can be deployed without delay. Students are ready. Faculty are leading. Research is advancing. Your support determines how far and how fast we can go.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Support that is given today can immediately fund scholarships, enhance faculty leadership, and accelerate research already in motion. A gift to Georgia Tech is an investment in people, ideas, and solutions that extend far beyond campus. Make your gift today and help drive what comes next.