PhD Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Programme overview

The PhD in Aerospace Engineering is a research degree requiring 42 hours of letter-grade coursework beyond the BS, up to 30 of which may come from relevant graduate work at an accredited university. MS courses count toward the total.

Faculty: College of Engineering | Department: Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering | Study mode: full-time | Location: Atlanta, GA, United States

What you will study

Coursework includes at least 9 hours of mathematics (which also satisfies the Institute PhD minor), at least 18 hours of Georgia Tech aerospace coursework, no more than 6 hours at the 4xxx level and no more than 6 hours of relevant non-technical courses. Research areas are aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, flight mechanics and control, propulsion and combustion, structural mechanics and materials behavior, and system design and optimization.

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Application information

Entry requirements

International applicants (Georgia Tech graduate admissions): TOEFL iBT overall 4.5 with Reading, Listening and Writing at least 4 and Speaking at least 3.5 under the scoring used from January 2026 (earlier scale: 90 overall, 19 per section), or IELTS Academic 7 overall with at least 6.5 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 5.5 in Writing; scores are valid for two years, Duolingo is not accepted, and applicants with a degree from a regionally accredited US institution or an English-medium or approved-country degree can be exempt; individual programmes may set higher scores.

Requirements published at faculty level.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Graduate applications use one online graduate application (gradapp.gatech.edu) for all programmes and campuses; deadlines vary by programme and are published on each programme page.

Apply through the official page: https://grad.gatech.edu/

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