Georgia Tech's employees, Institute spending and student spending together generate — in total economic output across all 12 of Georgia's economic development regions.
Georgia Tech's economic footprint reaches all 12 of Georgia's economic development regions — through the employees who live and spend in local communities, through the Institute's own spending with suppliers and vendors, and through the off-campus spending of its students. Use the impact layer switch to explore each, toggle gross / net, and click any region for its FY25 numbers.
Impact basis:
Net state appropriationsNet removes the share of revenue funded by state appropriations.
Total economic impact direct + indirect + induced
Impact layer:
What's included. These figures cover Georgia Tech employees' local impact, the impact of Institute spending (including the Georgia Tech Athletic Association's purchasing), and the impact of student spending. Use the impact layer switch on the map to explore each; the headline totals above combine all three.
Student spending. Direct employment in the headline totals includes both Georgia Tech's own employees and the jobs created in Georgia businesses by the off-campus living spending of in-person students (AY2025). The student layer also shows where Georgia Tech's Georgia-resident students live.
Gross vs. net. Figures default to gross impact. Switch to net to remove the share of employee and Institute-spending impact funded by state appropriations. Student spending is not funded by state appropriations, so it is unchanged under either basis.
These figures represent the "traditional" upstream economic impact. Downstream measures — the impact of Georgia Tech's research, innovation, and entrepreneurship — are being developed to provide a comprehensive view of the Institute's total impact.
Select a region on the map to view its Georgia Tech employee economic impact for FY25.
Compare the 12 regions
Total economic output by region, FY25 — click a bar to select a region
Full impact table
Direct · Indirect · Induced · Total▸
Georgia Tech's total FY25 statewide economic impact, including student spending, decomposed by impact type. Direct employment combines Georgia Tech employees with the direct jobs generated by student spending. These rows sum to the total.
Definitions & Methodology
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Types of Impact
Direct Impacts
The initial economic activity that results from changes in production or expenditures by producers and/or consumers.
Indirect Impacts
The economic activity that results from local industries buying goods and services from other local industries. This cycle of spending continues until all the money leaks out from the regional economy.
Induced Impacts
The economic activity that results from the spending of employees' labor income. This cycle of household spending continues until all the money leaks out from the regional economy.
Key Measures
Economic Output / Final Demand
Final value of industry production. For manufacturing companies, output is sales plus/minus changes in inventory. For service sectors, output is equal to sales. For retail and wholesale trade companies, output equals gross margin, not gross sales.
Value Added
The difference between an industry's output and the cost of its intermediate inputs. This includes employee compensation, taxes on production, and gross operating surplus. This is the measure of the contribution to GDP made by the industry.
Wages / Income
All forms of employment income, including employee compensation and proprietor income. Employee compensation is the total payroll cost paid by the employer including wages and salary, all benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and employer-paid payroll taxes (social security, unemployment, etc.).
Gross, Net & Sources of Impact
Gross vs. Net Impact
Gross impact is Georgia Tech's total economic footprint. Net impact removes the portion of employee and Institute-spending impact funded by state appropriations to isolate the activity attributable to the Institute's other (non-state) funding. The student-spending impact is not adjusted.
Employee Impact
The compensation Georgia Tech pays to the 21,606 employees who live in Georgia, plus the additional (induced) income and jobs created when those employees spend their pay in local economies.
Student-Spending Impact
The off-campus living spending of Georgia Tech's 30,555 in-person students (AY2025) — housing, food, books, transportation and personal expenses — estimated from the Institute's published cost-of-attendance budgets by student level, residency and housing status. Tuition, fees and online students are excluded. Direct jobs and output are the activity in the Georgia businesses students buy from; indirect and induced effects are the supplier and household activity that spending supports across the state.
Student Enrollment Geography
AY2025 enrollment (64,820 students) classified by county of residence from Georgia Tech Institutional Research. Georgia residents (21,305) are mapped to the 12 Regional Commissions defined by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Students with no county reported (15,205, mostly online graduate students) are shown separately and not assigned a location.
Institute-Spending Impact
The activity generated by Georgia Tech's own spending, including the Georgia Tech Athletic Association: supplier and vendor purchases (indirect) and the household spending those support (induced). Direct on-campus operations are largely centralized and reported in the statewide totals.
How to read this: The headline figures combine Georgia Tech's total statewide economic impact — direct operations, payroll and student spending, supplier purchases (indirect), and the household spending they support (induced). The map explores three layers: where Georgia Tech's 21,606 Georgia employees live and spend, where the Institute's spending generates supplier and household activity, and where student spending supports jobs and where those students come from. "Net" figures remove the share of FY25 revenue funded by state appropriations from the employee and Institute-spending impact; student spending is not adjusted. Source: Georgia Tech Center for Economic Development Research.
Downstream impact captures what Georgia Tech sets in motion beyond campus — the patents, licensed technologies, startups, and federal innovation funding that flow from Institute research into the economy. It is built on a tiered certainty framework: hard, annually-auditable counts are reported separately from broader modeled estimates, each labeled with its level of confidence, so a direct count is never blended with an estimate.
Tier 1 · Counted
Directly counted, standardized, refreshed annually. High certainty. Pairs one-for-one with the upstream impact.
Tier 2 · Matched
Built from matched administrative data with stated assumptions. Medium certainty. First figures published as preliminary.
Tier 3 · Modeled
Modeled or survey-based diffusion effects, run as a periodic deep-dive study. Directional.
Books with a Georgia Tech author indexed in OpenAlex · calendar years
Books by field
Primary field of each book
Tier 1 · Scorecard families the full annual picture
Tier 2 · Venture growth matched data · preliminary
Preliminary — companies with a documented Georgia Tech program relationship.
These are companies that licensed Georgia Tech technology through the Office of Technology
Licensing, or that were members of ATDC, the Institute’s technology incubator. Every
company was matched to an administrative record; none entered through founder biographies.
Activity is reported as it stands at these companies, not as a Georgia Tech-attributed total.
Figures are lower bounds — see the notes below the charts.
Preliminary — alumni-founded companies.
These figures cover companies founded by Georgia Tech alumni. They are not
Georgia Tech spin-outs, and no causal claim is made: this is activity at
alumni-founded firms, reported separately from the Institute’s own output.
Companies that also hold a Georgia Tech licence or an ATDC relationship are counted here
only, not repeated in Tier 2. Figures are lower bounds and will be restated — see the notes below the charts.
Equity capital raised per year
Georgia-headquartered alumni-founded companies · equity rounds only
