Priorities & Needs: Merit-Based Scholarships
Merit scholarships provide Georgia Tech with a competitive advantage to help us recruit the best and the brightest young scholars from within Georgia and across the nation. These highly recruited young minds serve to attract other top-notch students and draw the attention of eminent faculty; they also have a history of providing extraordinary leadership on the campus and within the community.
Georgia Tech’s most prestigious scholarship program, the President’s Scholarship Program, identifies, invests in, and develops students who have demonstrated distinction in both leadership and academics. Each year, Georgia Tech enrolls approximately 75 of the brightest and most promising incoming freshman as President's Scholars. Nearly half of the President's Scholarship alumni go on to post-graduate education, earning prestigious national and international awards such as the Rhodes Scholarship and Truman Scholarship, among others. Other President's Scholarship alumni have gone on to prominent positions in industry and public service. While they are on campus, they are among our top student leaders, often serving in Student Government or creating new organizations to enhance the quality of campus life for all students.
Gifts and commitments to support merit-based scholarships and the President's Scholarship Program may be made in the form of permanent endowment from $25,000 or for current operations.
For more information on providing support for merit-based scholarships and the President's Scholarship Program, contact Barrett H. Carson, Vice President for Development.
