What is the difference between the liberal arts program at Georgia Tech and liberal arts programs at other colleges and universities?
The liberal arts programs at Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College include the basic strengths of any good liberal arts program, but it offers Bachelor of Science degrees, not the Bachelor of Arts. This distinction is significant because Ivan Allen College students study topics relating not only to humanities and social sciences, but also science, technology, and computing, and their impacts on society, culture, and public issues. Ivan Allen College is in many ways a small liberal arts college located in the midst of a major technological university, so students acquire both the technical expertise characteristic of the institute’s graduates on top of the education found in a “traditional” liberal arts education. This has proven to give our students an advantage in many job markets and in graduate school programs. To see how competitive we are please visit our Comparisons and Statistics page.
