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2026-2027

(CAP)

COMPUTING AFFILIATES PROGRAM

A Welcome from the Dean I

n the College of Computing, we pride ourselves on the rigorous cutting-edge education we provide our

students. We teach them to work hard, solve problems creatively, and focus on projects that make a difference.

Our goal is to position them in exciting, rewarding careers with employers who value them.

We deeply value the organizations who recruit our students. I would like to say welcome to our new affiliates, and welcome back to those who have worked with us for many years. We look forward to helping you identify and match with students who have the specific skills you need. And we are good at it — last year 60 percent of our students had jobs or internships waiting for them upon graduation (another 37 percent went into academia).

The College of Computing continues to rise in the rankings, placing #5 for undergraduate education and #6 for graduate education in the most recent U.S. News

moment, including over 6,000 undergraduate and

& World Report data. When you hire our students, they

graduate students on-campus and almost 26,000 in

are technically and professionally prepared to make an

our online master’s programs. We anticipate that our

immediate impact.

enrollment will grow further with the announcement

Let me share two examples of our community’s

of a new Bachelor’s program in Mathematics and

achievements within the past year. First, a team

Computer Science If you are looking for talent with

of Georgia Tech students, faculty and alumni won

a wide range of computing-related backgrounds and

a two-year DARPA grand challenge by building an

experiences, we provide an excellent pool.

autonomous AI system capable of finding and patching cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Second, Georgia Tech won a $20 million grant

Our corporate recruiting manager will help craft a strategy based on your company’s hiring objectives.

We can target students through our award-winning

from the National Science Foundation to build an

Threads curriculum, which lets each student focus on

academic supercomputer. This new machine is a

two mini-specializations. We have more than 20 clubs

national resource, and will allow scientific researchers

that nurture students with specific interests.

across the country to have access to a wide range of AI hardware with a simple unified workflow, while also

We are dedicated to helping you hire the talent you need, and we look forward to working with you. n

reserving 10 percent of its cycles for use by Georgia Tech students and faculty.

We do all of this while educating an ever larger number of students — nearly 24,000 students at the

Vivek Sarkar Dean and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair of Computing

About the College of Computing

At the Georgia Tech College of Computing, we teach, research and learn computing unlike any other program, because we are unlike any other program. We think bigger and bolder. Through the power of computation and working in partnership with all members of the GT Computing community, we enable our students, faculty, and staff to be more.

Schools & Affiliated

Our structural units work in harmony to create GT Computing that is far more than the sum of its parts.

School of Computer Science Interim Chair: Mostafa Ammar

Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) Co-directors: Hyesoon Kim and Tushar Krishna

Centers/Institutes

School of Interactive Computing Chair: Shaowen Bardzell School of Computational Science & Engineering Chair: Haesun Park School of Cybersecurity & Privacy Interim Chair: Musaque Ahmad School of Computing Instruction Interim Chair: Mary Hudachek-Buswell National AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI CARING [NSF AI Institute]) Director: Sonia Chernova, National AI Institute for Adult Learning in Online Education (AI ALOE [NSF AI Institute]) Director: Ashok Goel Algorithms & Randomness Center (ARC) Director: Will Perkins Center for Deliberate Innovation (CDI) Director: Merrick Furst Center for Machine Learning Director: Mark Riedl

Center for Advancing Responsible Computing (CARE) Co-Directors: Josiah Hester and Celine Lin Center for Artificial Intelligence in Science and Engineering (ARTISAN) Director: Suresh Marru Spark Center for Public Design & Technology Director: Carl DiSalvo Center for Scientific Software Engineering (CSSE) Director: Rich Vuduc; Associate Director: Jeffrey Young Center for 21st Century Universities Director: Rich DeMillo Constellations Center for Education in Computing Senior Director: Kamau Bobb Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) Director: David Sherrill Institute for Robotics & Intelligent Machines (IRIM) Director: Gregory Sawicki Institute for People & Technology (IPaT) Executive Director: Michael Best

Key Indicators Academic Year 2025/26 Enrollment

23,874 1,326 Total Student Enrollment

M.S. Students

497

17,752

Ph.D. Students

Online M.S. Students (CS & cybersecurity)

3,907

299

Undergraduate Computer Science

Undergraduates Computational Media

Rankings

5th

6th

overall for undergraduate CS education, U.S. News & World Report 2025 Best Colleges

overall for graduate CS education, U.S. News & World Report 2025-26 Best Graduate Schools

CS majors graduating in 2024-2025 had one or more job offers at graduation with a median starting salary of

MS CS graduates in 2024-2025 had one or more job offers at graduation with a median starting salary of

$123.5K

$134K

GT Computing Faculty (as of August 2025)

FY24 Research Funding

224

ALL FACULTY

127

ACADEMIC FACULTY

61

RESEARCH FACULTY

35

INSTRUCTIONAL FACULTY

$47,119,681 Total Research Expenditures

$38,537,149 Total New Research Awards

298 Total Proposals Submitted

World Class

Georgia Tech’s Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, based on the first-of-its-kind Thread curriculum, teaches students not only about technology but how to think about and apply technology to create real-world impact and tackle important societal problems.

Academics

The 9 Threads — ­­ 36 Possible Degrees Each thread is associated with a set of introductory and specialized courses from computing and other fields. Students select at least two threads to weave together a custom degree reflecting their own interests and real-world opportunities.

Theory: Defining the fundamental powers and limitations of computing, the theory and mathematics that underlie all of computer science.

Artificial Intelligence: Designing and implementing artifacts that exhibit various levels of intelligence, as well as understanding and modeling natural cognitive agents such as humans, ants or bees.

Information Internetworks: Capturing, representing, organizing, transforming, managing and presenting information securely and efficiently.

Systems and Architecture: Creating and evaluating computer architectures, systems and languages across a variety of paradigms and approaches.

People: The theoretical and computational foundations for designing, building and evaluating systems that treat the human as a central component.

Media: Understanding and developing the technical and computational capabilities of systems in order to exploit their abilities to provide creative outlets.

Modeling and Simulation: Expressing, specifying, creating, understanding and exploiting computational models that represent cognitive and physical processes.

Devices: Creating and evaluating computational artifacts that are embedded in physical objects and interact in the physical world, typically in real time.

Shaping the Future of Digital Media Computational Media (CM) prepares you to participate in shaping the future of digital media for our society. Offered jointly by the College of Computing, the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), and the School of Music, this degree gives you multiple perspectives on the digital revolution.

Computer engineering (CompE) covers a broad set of areas, ranging from design of microprocessors to cloud computing and everything in between. Courses throughout the program, especially those in the junior and senior years, emphasize an open-ended, design-oriented approach to solving engineering problems.

The Computing Threads Media: Understanding and developing the technical and computational capabilities of systems in order to exploit their abilities to provide creative outlets.

People: The theoretical and computational foundations for designing, building and evaluating systems that treat the human as a central component.

Intelligence: Designing and implementing artifacts that exhibit various levels of intelligence as well as understanding and modeling natural cognitive agents such as humans, ants or bees.

The LMC Threads

New Thread: Cybersecurity & Privacy The Cybersecurity & Privacy thread is where computing meets malicious actors who exploit it for nefarious purposes. This thread deals with securing computing systems against various kinds of threats. It instills a security mindset that focuses on

Interaction Design: Building and critically

threats people and systems may face, how their vulnerabilities

analyzing interactive systems for commerce, education, entertainment, social media and personal expression.

may be exploited, and how to detect, prevent or mitigate attacks that target information systems. Students also learn

Film and Media: Studying the history and creating new forms of cinema, electronic media and performance art.

Games: Building and critically analyzing the broad and growing variety of videogame genres—everything from mainstream role-playing games to casual games, independent games, serious games and art games.

Music Technology Thread Music Technology: Use technology to create and perform music; create new algorithms for music generation and analysis; conduct scientific experiments in music perception; and design and develop transformative music products.

how cybersecurity and privacy impact people, organizations and society. The student who pursues the Cybersecurity thread can combine it with other threads as follows: n I nformation & Internetwork, to build and manage

real-world networked systems that enable access to sensitive information securely. It can be combined with n S ystems & Architecture, to develop secure systems that

resist, detect and mitigate attacks and respond to them. n P eople, to build human-facing systems that function

securely.

College of Computing Student

Organizations

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AI Safety – 70 active members The AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech is a group of technical and policy researchers focused on mitigating catastrophic threats from advanced artificial intelligence. As such, we focus on topics including: Interpretability: “How can we make AI decision-making processes transparent?”

Alignment: “How do we robustly align AI systems to human values & intentions?” Robustness: “How do we ensure AI systems remain resilient when facing adversarial attacks, novel inputs, or changing environments?” Our members have worked with labs like Anthropic, DeepMind, METR, and RAND. More information about our research can be found at aisi.dev Anime O-Tekku – 70 active members Anime O-Tekku has been Georgia Tech’s anime club since 1995, when a group of fans put together a student organization that provided a venue in which to watch anime from Japan regularly. The club grew through a huge mailing list, word-of-mouth, and Georgia Tech community support. Anime O-Tekku is now one of the oldest still-surviving anime clubs in the state and welcomes new members from Georgia Tech and the surrounding community.

Big Data Big Impact – 110 active members Big Data Big Impact @ GT is a student-led College of Computing organization dedicated to solving real-world problems using big data and machine learning. We support members through technical workshops that build full-stack development skills, project teams that apply those skills to impactful, real-world challenges, and corporate events that connect students with computing professionals.

Big O Theory Club – 40 active members, 350 total members Big O Theory Club is a place for students interested in theoretical CS topics to learn more and meet other students with similar interests.

Most of our officers are involved with research in a variety of CS disciplines, and we hope to encourage more students to get involved as well.

Typical meetings consist of a lecture or problem session, with past topics including cryptography, combinatorics, probability, game theory, randomized algorithms, and more.

The Black Student Computing Org (BSCO) – 53 active members BSCO is a community to students of AfricanDescent, pursuing Computer Science, Computational Media, Computer Engineering,

and additional computing concentrations. Rooted in the pillars of Academic Support, Corporate Enrichment, and Community Security. The students of BSCO aim to equip, embolden, and uphold each other as they journey through the computing experience at Georgia Tech.

Competitive Programming @ Tech – 50 active members We are Georgia Tech’s competitive programming club. Competitive programming is a mind sport involving participants writing code to solve algorithmic problems in a short time span.

The club hosts weekly meetings consisting of lectures on algorithms and practice contests, and members compete in online competitions hosted by platforms such as Codeforces and LeetCode. The club also competes at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the premiere intercollegiate team-based programming competition that happens annually. dependently-typed – 15 active members dependently-typed is the programming languages and compilers club at Georgia Tech.

We host weekly meetings during which we discuss topics spanning the theory and practice of PL design. Here be dragons!

Design Club – 35 active members Design Club is a student-run organization engaging in the practical, theoretical, and cultural usages of design to improve user experiences (UX).

GITMAD – 29 active members Georgia Institute of Technology Mastering Android Development (GITMAD) is an organization that empowers students to become app developers for both android and cross-platform applications. We teach all the fundamentals from basic app development to advanced industry practices and build apps in our project groups.

GOURD Visual Arts – 20 active members GOURD is a community of art lovers and artists of all skill levels at Georgia Tech. GOURD hosts weekly meetings and campus-wide art events in its mission to provide GT students with a space to express themselves and connect with others.

panels, guest speakers, talks about HPC, and technical workshops. We welcome all students who are interested in supercomputing, regardless of experience level.

Supercomputing has an amazing breadth of applied disciplines—scientific modeling and simulations, machine learning, trading and financial technology, big data, etc. It has technical depth—computer architecture & engineering, software optimizations, parallel algorithms, GPU programming, networking systems, and more.

Our mission is to expose students to the field.

iOS Club – 70 active members The iOS Club supports its members through a strong curriculum spanning iOS development and design by building apps in small teams.

Our members routinely go on to work at top tech companies in the industry, publish top-ranked apps on the iOS App Store, and also go on to start their own companies. Spring 2022 projects ranged from an app to teach sign language to parents of children that are deaf or hard-of-hearing to scheduling, social media, and music apps.

Quantum Computing – 25 active members A student-led organization dedicated to fostering a community, educating students, and offering resources for students who are interested in quantum computing and quantum information at Georgia Tech.

RoboGrads – 125 active PhD, 94 active MS members We are a graduate student organization that represents the interests of graduate students involved in research labs in the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). We also organize a variety of academic, social, and outreach events, shown on the calendar below along with robotics-related talks, proposals, and defenses.

RoboJackets – 335 active members RoboJackets is a student-run organization dedicated to the promotion, education, and advancement of the field of robotics through competition and outreach initiatives. Our five competitive teams combine the talents of students from a spectrum of majors to represent Georgia Tech at competitions around the world.

Student Organization for Latinos in Computing (SOLC) - 30 actived members Georgia Tech’s new Student Organization for Latinos in Computing aims to foster a community for Latinos who are interested in the field of computing. SOLC provides opportunities to disadvantaged students in the field of computing to network and connect with company partners. Additionally, we provide guidance and mentorship opportunities for Latino students in computing and technology.

Supercomputing @ GT – 80 active members Supercomputing @ GT seeks to increase student involvement in supercomputing, aka high-performance computing (HPC), by creating a welcoming community and series of events where students can learn and get exposure to GT supercomputing research, industry, and resources. We host weekly meetings, faculty

VGDev – 120 active members We’re Georgia Tech’s video game development club. We help young game developers in all disciplines of the field learn their craft and hone their skills through semester-long, student-led games. We also strive to provide opportunities for those seeking careers in game development to explore their options and build connections.

WebDev @ GT – 175 active members In the Georgia Tech Web Development Club, or GT WebDev, we aim to foster students’ learning of web development technologies and techniques. We have project teams that create interactive web applications; some past examples include a web-based video conference platform, a 3D map of Georgia Tech’s campus, and a protest organization website. We also hold various hackathons, workshops, social gatherings, and company speaker events for any GT student to participate in.

W@CC – 105 active members Women at the College of Computing is an organization that empowers the female and non-binary identifying students of Georgia Tech studying Computer Science, Computational Media, and other computing disciplines by providing a space to meet other like-minded students and learn valuable professional development.

College of Computing profiles

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oday’s job market is highly competitive. Our students want to design mobile apps and video games; develop software for major corporations; create interactive designs and marketing campaigns; use machine learning and data analytics to address real world challenges; start their own businesses; and much more.

Muskan (Third Year) “I’m president of Women at the College of Computing(W@CC), and we’ve had a wonderful experience with our CAP partners. They are so intentional – hosting engaging socials, workshops, and resume review sprints. CAP truly serves as a bridge between W@ CC and life-changing professional opportunities.”

Parth (Third Year) “Through mentorship and panel discussions from corporate partners, I’ve bridged the gap between classroom instruction and real-world implementation. Now, as president of the Big Data Big Impact club, I’ve worked with CAP to create opportunities for my peers to connect with industry professionals.”

These students work in healthcare, sports, finance, retail, entertainment and countless other industries. Each student’s career path looks different and Career Services is along for the journey. As we provide guidance and resources for early career seekers, these students continue to seek out opportunities to engage beyond the classroom to enhance their professional toolkits including internships, co-ops, and fellowship programs.

Alexandra (Third Year) “CAP has been pivotal in my professional development. I made connections at company recruiting events and alumni networking opportunities that have already aided me in landing further professional opportunities. Thanks to CAP, I feel very equipped going into industry.”

Our mission in Career Services at the College of Computing is to open doors for student opportunities in diverse fields and industries. The possibilities are endless as we look at research and technical knowledge weave into every fiber of the workforce.

Ekta (Fall 2026 graduate) “I am an international student, graduating one year early this semester, and the CAP program played a significant role in making this possible. CAP helped me secure interviews, clarify my trajectory, and build lasting professional connections.

I am deeply grateful.”

Areas of

The Computing Affiliates Program directly supports students as they explore career pathways, gain exposure to industry, and prepare for life beyond the classroom.

These efforts come to life through four areas of engagement:

Engagement T

he program reinvests a significant portion of its funding into students by connecting them with employers, expanding access to experiential learning opportunities and providing mentorship and professional development resources that support their career goals.

In recognition of a company’s generosity and shared commitment to advancing student success and career outcomes, organizations are invited to engage with students through the following opportunities.

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Professional Development

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Ramblin’ Wreck $11K

Buzz $5K

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Talent Engagement

Industry Connection & Campus Presence

Experiential Learning & Innovation

Professional Development & Mentorship

Opportunities & Recruiting Students connect with organizations through career fairs, informal conversations, and targeted outreach efforts that create pathways to meaningful opportunities.

These interactions provide organizations with opportunities to share insights about their work and inspire future technologists, while helping students gain greater clarity around career pathways and the skills needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving industry.

Campus visibility fosters awareness and sparks curiosity among students about the innovations shaping the world. Through storytelling, hosted talks, and participation in campus events, organizations contribute to a vibrant learning environment that encourages exploration and strengthens connections between academic knowledge and real-world applications.

Students collaborate with organizations on projects and challenges that apply classroom concepts to real-world problems. These experiences cultivate creativity, teamwork, and technical depth while demonstrating how computing drives solutions across industries. Through authentic learning experiences, organizations help shape the next generation of problemsolvers.

Guidance from experienced professionals helps students build confidence and develop practical skills beyond the classroom. Through résumé reviews, interview preparation, and candid conversations, students gain valuable tools to navigate their career journeys.

These engagements foster a culture of mentorship that strengthens the computing community and prepares graduates to lead with impact.

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