its graduate computer science program ranked tied for 7th.
Also for 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Tech 13th in the United States for most innovative university.
== Research ==
=== Facilities and classification ===
Georgia Tech is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The National Science Foundation ranked Georgia Tech 20th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $1.11 billion. Much of this research is funded by large corporations or governmental organizations. Research is organizationally under the Executive Vice President for Research, Stephen E. Cross, who reports directly to the institute president. Nine "interdisciplinary research institutes" report to him, with all research centers, laboratories and interdisciplinary research activities at Georgia Tech reporting through one of those institutes.
The oldest of those research institutes is a nonprofit research organization referred to as the Georgia Tech Research …
