On the eve of his fourth anniversary on the job, Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera delivered the annual Institute Address to a gathered crowd inside the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons and over 1,000 viewers online.  

Celebrating “another banner year at Tech,” the president highlighted the Institute’s ever-growing impact in the state and around the globe. “We committed in our strategic plan to amplify our impact, and I can proudly say that our impact has never been greater,” he said. “And at a place like Tech, that’s really saying something. What we have done together is remarkable.” 

Reaching New Heights 

The 3,800 members of the Class of 2027 include record numbers of first-generation students, women, and other traditionally underrepresented students, and brought the undergraduate population over 19,000 for the first time in the Institute’s history –– further cementing Tech’s place as the fastest-growing public university in the country over the last decade, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac.  

Praised for its value to students, Tech earned a five-star ranking from Money magazine and the top spot on the Princeton Review’s list of Best Value Colleges for 2023.  

“Our students pay less here than they would at most other leading research universities,” Cabrera said. “They graduate at one of the highest rates among public universities, and they land some of the best-paying jobs in the nation. The result is one of the highest returns on investment anywhere.”  

With continued growth in the student population comes the need for faculty growth. Prioritizing instruction, the Institute saw a record number of new faculty hires, with 80 in the past year — a 5% growth of overall academic faculty.  

Tech faculty won a historic $1.45 billion…