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Transferring to Georgia Tech: your chances, deadlines and credits

2027 application cycle. Last updated . By The founders of Stairly

Georgia Tech transfer acceptance rate

Georgia Tech's transfer acceptance rate for fall 2025 was 20%. 663 transfer students enrolled. The first-year rate the same year was 13.3%.

Source: Official school data report, section D, 2025-2026

Transfer applicants, fall 2025
  • Applied3,939
  • Admitted789
  • Enrolled663
Share admitted, same year
  • Transfer applicants20%
  • First-year applicants13.3%

The Common Data Set is the official data report colleges publish each year.

Transfer and first-year applicants are different groups. Use the first-year rate as context only.

This rate covers everyone who applied. Your major can move it a lot, and the report does not split it by major.

The odds figure counts fall 2025 transfers only. Georgia Tech also lets transfers start in spring and summer, and the data report does not count those terms here.

Source: Georgia Tech Common Data Set, section D, 2025-2026

Georgia Tech says it enrolls about 1,400 transfer students each year. Those are all terms and all pathways. We do not know how the fall count in the data report lines up with that number.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer pathway programs, undated page

Some transfer applicants are first-year applicants Georgia Tech did not admit. The Arts and Sciences, Atlanta Public Schools, Conditional, First-Generation and Talent Initiative pathways invite them to apply as transfers. Dual Degree and the Regents' Engineering Pathway are separate. We do not know how the report counts any of these groups.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer pathway programs, undated page

Transfer requirements

Georgia Tech requires a minimum number of college credits.

  • Minimum credits before you applyRequired

    You need at least 30 semester or 45 quarter credit hours.

    Source, 2026-2027

Every major needs English Composition 1101 and 1102 (six semester hours) and Calculus 1 (MATH 1551). All course requirements must transfer with a C or better. TOEFL and IELTS do not replace the two English courses.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer course requirements by major, undated page; Georgia Tech transfer application requirements, undated page

Dual enrollment and AP or IB credit count toward the 30 semester hours for the regular route. They do not count for pathway applicants, who need 30 semester or 45 quarter hours earned after high school graduation.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application requirements, undated page

Architecture and Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies applicants upload a portfolio. Music Technology applicants send 2 to 4 work samples by URL.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer course requirements by major, undated page

You must send an official transcript from every previous college. Georgia Tech will not waive or exclude prior college credit or enrollment. The fee is $75, or $85 for international applicants.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application requirements, undated page; Georgia Tech transfer deadlines and fees, undated page

Our read: The course chart on the page is an image, and the text version does not show which course sits in which column. Open the chart itself and check your major before you register for next term.

Transfer deadlines for fall 2027

For fall 2027 entry, the application deadline is March 1, 2027.

Source: Georgia Institute of Technology transfer information, 2026-2027

  • You send or do something
  • The school answers
  1. March

    March 1, 2027

    Application deadline

    Source, 2026-2027
  2. April

    April 16

    Fall decisions, Dual Degree (no year printed)

    Source, undated page
  3. May

    May 14

    Fall decisions, regular transfer, REPP and Veterans (no year printed)

    Source, undated page

  4. May 30

    Fall course requirements deadline (the page prints no year)

    Source, undated page
  5. June

    June 11

    Fall decisions, APS, Arts and Sciences, Conditional and Talent Initiative (no year printed)

    Source, undated page
  6. July

    July 1

    Fall deposit deadline (no year printed)

    Source, undated page

There are two clocks for fall. The application and documents close in March. Then a separate course requirements deadline of May 30 applies. You can be admitted and still have to finish required courses by that date.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer deadlines and fees, undated page

Architecture is open to fall applicants only.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer deadlines and fees, undated page; Georgia Tech transfer course requirements by major, undated page

Decision dates differ by group. Dual Degree hears first. Regular transfer, REPP and Veterans hear in May. The APS, Arts and Sciences, Conditional and Talent Initiative pathways hear in June.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer deadlines and fees, undated page

Other terms and dates

What GPA do you need?

Georgia Tech calls transfer review holistic. The factors it lists are academic preparation, course requirements by major, GPA, personal essays, contribution to community, major selection and institutional fit.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application review, undated page

The minimum GPA is 3.3 on a 4.0 scale for the College of Computing and the College of Engineering. It is 3.0 for Design, Sciences, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Scheller College of Business. The page calls the process selective and competitive.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application requirements, undated page

Our read: A minimum is a floor, not a target. Georgia Tech names three outcomes: admit, waitlist and deny. A waitlist means it wanted to admit you but had no room. Meeting the GPA line only gets your file read.

Reviewers use the GPA from all your previous colleges, including international ones. A separate math and lab science GPA is calculated only for select pathway groups: Regents Engineering, Dual Degree Engineering, Veterans and Atlanta Bridge. Computer science and engineering courses are not counted as lab science. A repeat is excluded unless the first attempt was not passing, and a D or F stays in the GPA even if the grading scale is pass/fail.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer GPA requirements, undated page

Arts and Sciences, Conditional, First-Generation, Talent Initiative and Atlanta Public Schools pathway applicants need a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher and B grades or higher in all college coursework.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer GPA requirements, undated page

What Georgia Tech looks for

Our read: Your major decides which column you compete in. A 3.3 in a major that wants Calc II and two lab sciences is judged on that math and science record, not on your gen ed grades. Pick the major first, then plan courses.

Georgia Tech says your chosen major and your evidence of interest in it show how you would fit in the incoming class. It says it wants innovative thinkers and problem solvers.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application review, undated page

Transfer essays and supplements

Personal essays are one of the factors Georgia Tech lists for transfer review. We could not open a page with the transfer prompts or word limits.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application review, undated page

Our read: Tie the essay to your major, since the review lists major selection and institutional fit as separate factors. Say why that major, what you have done in it since starting college, and what the Georgia Tech version gives you that your current school does not.

Our read: If you came through a pathway after a first-year denial, do not argue about that decision. Show what changed in your coursework.

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Will your credits transfer?

Georgia Tech does not review your courses before it offers you a seat. Admitted students get an official evaluation before FASET orientation.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer credit requirements, undated page

Courses need a C or better and must match Georgia Tech courses in time and content. A course not on the transfer equivalency table goes to faculty review after admission. Syllabi must show a course description, weekly schedule, topics and textbook. Computer Science may ask for sample assignments. Incomplete syllabi are not reviewed.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer credit requirements, undated page

The data report says transfers finish at least 36 semester credits at Georgia Tech for a bachelor's degree.

Source: Georgia Tech Common Data Set, section D, 2025-2026

Our read: Save a full syllabus for every course now. Credit by exam is awarded only if it is on your transcript at the time of admission, so check how your current school lists AP or CLEP credit.

If it does not work out

Questions students ask

How many credits do I need to apply?

At least 30 semester or 45 quarter hours, and you must be a high school graduate before the application window opens. Pathway applicants must earn that many after graduating from high school.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application requirements, undated page

Is there a transfer GPA minimum?

Yes. 3.3 on a 4.0 scale for Computing and Engineering, and 3.0 for the other colleges. Pathway applicants should check their pathway page.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer application requirements, undated page

What is the Dual Degree path?

You attend a participating school for three years, then enroll in the College of Engineering. You earn a degree from your home school and one from Georgia Tech.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer pathway programs, undated page

Can I enroll in spring or summer?

Yes. Georgia Tech runs separate spring and summer application windows with their own deadlines. Architecture is fall only.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer deadlines and fees, undated page

What does waitlist mean?

Georgia Tech says waitlisted students are ones it would like to admit but has no space for. It does not promise an offer later.

Source: Georgia Tech transfer decision outcomes, undated page

Sources

Numbers come from official reports, read by our tools and checked. Notes were drafted with AI tools from the official pages linked beside them. A person has not reviewed this guide yet. Admission decisions belong to each college, and no one can promise one.

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