TheGeorgia Institute of Technology is a publicuniversity (school for after high school) inAtlanta,Georgia. It is also known asGeorgia Tech.
It focuses primarily onengineering,science andcomputer science,[1] but also has schools ofmanagement,architecture, andliberal arts.
When it opened in 1885, the school's main focus was on practical experience (learning things by doing them); students spent half of their time in class, and half in the shop.
It first admitted women in 1952.
In 1961, it was the first university in theSouth to integrate (let people of different races go to school together) without a court order.
The school's colors arewhite and old gold (mustard yellow). Their mascot isBuzz, aYellow Jacket (a kind of bee-like wasp).
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