The Kectil Program is greatly pleased to announce that the July 2019 Global Youth Leadership Conference was held on the beautiful campus of Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech” or “GA Tech”) in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech is ranked as one of the top ten public universities in Atlanta. Georgia Tech is ranked #4 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, with all of the Institute’s undergraduate engineering programs ranking in the top 5. All of Tech’s graduate engineering program rank in the top 10. (Source: U.S. News & World Report)

Georgia Tech, a private university founded in 1885, the university is a well-recognized center for STEM education and innovation. Georgia Tech provides a technologically focused education to more than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students in fields ranging from engineering, computing, and sciences, to business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech has many nationally recognized programs, all top-ranked by peers and publications alike, and is ranked in the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report.

Georgia Tech is proud of its innovation and entrepreneurship programs and is ranked as #4 in Most Innovative Schools by U.S. News & World Report.  The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) is recognized by Forbes magazine as one of 12 incubators “changing the world.” Founded in 1980, ATDC is the oldest technology incubator in the U.S. with more than $2 billion raised by 150 graduates.

The university is very diverse and is consistently rated among the top universities in the nation for graduation of underrepresented minorities in engineering, physical sciences, and architecture and planning.