Outcomes
What it pays
Former students earn a median $102,772 ten years after enrolling, more than at 99% of colleges; 93% graduate within six years. Four years of net price is about 1.1 years of that salary.
Earnings
Earnings climb with time
Staying and finishing
Retention
come back for year two
Graduation
graduate within six years
National median graduation rate: 59%
What graduates owe
$21.7K
According to Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus's most recent Common Data Set, 27% of its Class of 2025 graduates (4,372 students) borrowed from any source: federal, institutional, state, or private, averaging $25,348 among those who did.
Counts students who started here as first-time students and earned a bachelor's; the federal median counts federal loans only, including students who left without a degree.
Everyone who starts here, 8 years later
Students who entered in fall 2016, including and part-time students. The graduation rate counts only first-time, full-time students and treats a transfer out as not finishing.
93 of 100 students who start here earn a degree or certificate here within 8 years; 5 more are enrolled at another college. (3,785 students)
All entering students, by whether they had a Pell Grant.
62 of 100 finish within 4 years, 92 within 6, and 93 within 8.
| Earned a credential within | 4 yrs | 6 yrs | 8 yrs |
|---|---|---|---|
| All students | 62% | 92% | 93% |
| Started in college here | 56% | 92% | 93% |
| Transferred in | 83% | 90% | 90% |
Transfer students' clock starts when they arrive here, not when they first started college.
National median: 60% of all entering students earn a credential at the college they started at within 8 years.
Do lower-income students finish?
Pell Grant recipients: 86%, 9 points below students with no need-based federal aid (95%). First-time, full-time students who finished within 6 years; entered fall 2018.
- Pell Grant recipients324 students
86% · 9 points below students with neither
- Subsidized loan, no Pell Grant288 students
92% · 3 points below students with neither
- Neither Pell nor subsidized loan2,497 students
95% · comparison group
By race and ethnicity
First-time, full-time students who finished within 6 years, from the College Scorecard's most recent release. Groups under 30 students aren't shown.
- White1,424 students
94% · the same as all students
- Asian724 students
97% · 3 points above all students
- Hispanic/Latino222 students
93% · 1 point below all students
- Black210 students
82% · 12 points below all students
- Two or more races129 students
94% · the same as all students
- International366 students
95% · 1 point above all students
- American Indian/Alaska Native1 students
Not shown: under 30 students
Cost vs. earnings
The 300 most-applied-to colleges plus Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus. Top-left is lower cost and higher earnings.
↑ Median earnings 10 years after entry (higher = more)
Sources:College Scorecard, most recent release;Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Common Data Set 2025–26, Entered fall 2024;IPEDS Outcome Measures survey, Students entering fall 2016;IPEDS Graduation Rates survey (Pell Grant and subsidized loan recipients), Entered fall 2018;IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey, 2023–24;IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey, 2023–24;Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Common Data Set 2025–26, Class of 2025About the data(retrieved 2026-10-12)