Georgia Institute of Technology Sports
Georgia Tech, a technology focused college with an undergraduate enrollment of 17,447 students, plays a total of 15 NCAA sports, 8 of them for men and 7 of them for women. In the 2021/2022 season, Georgia Tech had a total of 430 NCAA athletes comprising 2.5% of the total student body.
Georgia Tech is likely to have recruited many of the athletes on its NCAA sports teams through the Division 1 athlete recruitment process, enabling these recruited athletes to leapfrog the normal admissions process. It is our best estimate based on team profiles that about 50% to 75% of their teams comprise of recruited athletes while the remaining athletes are “walk-on” athletes who were admitted to Georgia Tech on merits unrelated to sports.
How Top Colleges in Division 1 Select their Athlete Recruits
The table below lists the NCAA and varsity sports played at Georgia Tech and the number of athletes in each sports team.
All data compiled from Dartmouth College athletic website.
| Georgia Institute of Technology | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division 1 | |||||
| Men's | Men's | Women's | Women's | Total | |
| Sports | Team Size | Sports | Team Size | Team Size | |
| Baseball | 41 | - | - | 41 | |
| Basketball | 17 | Basketball | 12 | 29 | |
| Cross Country | 29 | Cross Country | 27 | 56 | |
| Football | 98 | - | - | 98 | |
| Golf | 11 | - | - | 11 | |
| - | - | Softball | 24 | 24 | |
| Swimming and | 28 | Swimming and | 29 | 57 | |
| Diving | Diving | ||||
| Tennis | 7 | Tennis | 11 | 18 | |
| Track and Field | 39 | Track and Field | 44 | 83 | |
| - | - | Volleyball | 13 | 13 | |
| Total Sports Played | 8 | 7 | 15 | ||
| Total Athletes | 270 | 160 | 430 |
