impact for fiscal year 2024 led all public institutions in the state.
Georgia Tech fields eight men's and seven women's sports teams; these compete in NCAA Division I athletics and have won five national championships. The university is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. It is among the most prestigious engineering schools in the US, and in the world.
== History ==
=== Establishment ===
The idea of a technology school in Georgia was introduced in 1865 during the Reconstruction period. Two former Confederate officers, Major John Fletcher Hanson (an industrialist) and Nathaniel Edwin Harris (a politician and eventually Governor of Georgia), who had become prominent citizens in the town of Macon, Georgia, after the Civil War, believed that the South needed to improve its technology to compete with the North's industrialization. Because the American South of that era was mainly populated by agricultural workers and few technical developments were occurring, they proposed to establish a technology school.
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