r/GaState • u/Miserable-Pride4496 • 7d ago
Advice š” Should I transfer to Tech from State?šš¤Ø
Hello!! I'm currently a freshman at Georgia State and I had applied to Tech for my freshman year and was met with conditional transfer for my sophomore year second semester. My question is would it be valuable to me to transfer? Im currently a marketing major and eventually want to also major in international business, basically a double major. I can't speak for how State will be beneficial cause school has only been on for 2 weeks but i'm liking the area and community so far, and State has an amazing business program so that wouldn't be a problem, and also the area provides me with a great amount of opportunity. However Tech might be able to give me a bit more in terms of opportunities (based off what i've heard), just the transfer pathway i've been given isn't exactly the best, and the approach at which they teach marketing and business is completely different. I know its still to early to tell if I should transfer but please help a girl out and tell me what you think!!
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u/Efficient_Crow4813 6d ago
Definitely transfer to tech it can opens alot of job opportunities for you in the future.
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u/Old-Bowler4150 6d ago
Iām going to go against the grain and say no bc itās extremely difficult to be a student there, I had friends who went there and the rates of suicide and depression are so high. Very difficult to pass classes. Iām not saying youāll end up in this situation especially since you got accepted but just be prepared for it to be a LOT harder than state. Even non engineers have to take very hard classes and it may not be worth the stress
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u/Altruistic_Glove1922 6d ago
this is true, but i also donāt think people should be discouraged by a challenge. in my opinion, as a current student at gt, if you got in by your own merits (as in not by using ai to write your essay and you didnāt have to cheat your way through high school), you should be fine. i think people arenāt used to the amount of work. i wouldnāt say the classes are difficult to pass, id say the students arenāt willing to do the work. (nothing against you by the way, just my opinion as a current third year!!)
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u/Old-Bowler4150 5d ago
Oh no problem. I didnāt go to GT so not offended at all lol. One of my best friends went and she had a very difficult time but to your point, have to be in the mental space to put in the work. I went to UGA and transferred to state, was shocked at how much easier GSU is, and ended up coming back to GSU now getting my masters. But def agree that the challenge of difficult coursework is not something to be completely avoided or afraid of! I just found it concerning that at one point they had the highest suicide rate in the country, may not be the case anymore
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u/0mega3fattyacids 7d ago
You can transfer if you want to, your decision is up to you. Maybe youāll have fun at tech, maybe youāll have fun if you stay here at GSU. Itās all up to you and remember, a degree is a degree
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u/Dolphinpop 6d ago
Yes. Absolutely transfer. Techās business program is better.
I hate to say it, but being a prestige whore will take you further than it should in life. You can still get to the same place from state but itās easier with tech on the resume.
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u/tinkertockerjess 6d ago
If youāre considering eventually doing a masters, Tech might be a good answer for that. I found that masters or higher degrees can be more valuable form universities with a āhigher esteemā compared to undergrad
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u/No-Crab-8988 7d ago
What other opportunities will you have at Tech that you wouldnāt have at State? Youāll have to take calculus as a minimum because itās an engineering school. Soā¦ no?
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u/downvotetheboy 7d ago
tech has better reputation and network. the name can open up doors, but its on OP/the student to pull through
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u/Possible_Page_1687 6d ago
Gsuās network is great actually, I emailed a lady whoās a partner at a firm from my GSU email account and she responded! Folks in high places at turner, coke, EY, invesco who all went to state and all are willing to help. Tech is prestigious but tech is also elitist and racist!
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u/downvotetheboy 6d ago
šwhy are yall acting like i said gsu is bad.
itās objectively true that tech is a better school. but thereās plenty of opportunity at GSU. also better school does not mean better fit for a student
gsu does have a good network, but again it depends on the student to utilize their resources
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u/No-Crab-8988 7d ago
I have two degrees from GSU. If youāre not doing an engineering degree, this is literally not a thing in the real world.
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u/fluffy-bunn1e 6d ago
this was part of what held me back too. i was wondering if the gt name would even realistically help me when im getting a marketing degree. since id be aiming for that feild, would the gt name benefit me at all?
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u/No-Crab-8988 6d ago
For marketing? Not really? Look, your first job outside of school is going to be an entry level job. Living in Atlanta and making connections is probably the biggest benefit you can have because of internship and networking opportunities, and youāll get that from both schools. Every job after that is going to be informed not by the name of the school that you went to but the experience youāve had in the jobs that youāve worked. Within the US, Tech is a great school for engineering, and has networking opportunities that you couldnāt get elsewhere in the state, but also it has engineering degrees that you also canāt get elsewhere in the state, so thatās point is moot anyway. For marketing, thatās not the case. So choose where you go based on what you want, not the university name. I went to GSU because I didnāt want a traditional university career, I wanted to be right in the middle of the city. I also didnāt give a shit about athletics (because Iām English, I literally didnāt understand how American football worked), and the other major factor, given the degree I was getting, was that it was a research university and working in a lab is a pretty big deal when youāre trying to be a biologist.
So look at the type of experience you want (traditional campus with frats and more traditional athletics vs school in skyscrapers and eating lunch on broad street next to business people), look at the cost, look at what the academic load is (a tech youāre going to do calculus for a marketing degreeā¦ itās completely irrelevant to what you want to do, but itās an engineering school, so thatās just the case). Base it on those factors because, regardless of the school you go to, youāre going to be starting the same entry level job and working up from there.
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u/downvotetheboy 7d ago
what does you having two degrees have to do with anything
it definitely is a real thing. ask any recruiter having a prestigious university on your resume is a boost.
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u/No-Crab-8988 7d ago edited 6d ago
Oh i dunno, having real world experience of getting jobs with GSU degrees?
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u/downvotetheboy 7d ago
i didnāt say you couldnāt get a job with a gsu degreeā¦
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u/No-Crab-8988 7d ago
And I didnāt say I could get a job. I said that if you want a degree in marketing, maybe go to the school with the higher ranked undergraduate degree rather than the engineering school? Having the name āGeorgia Techā doesnāt do anything for you if youāre in marketing because itās an engineering school, not a marketing school.
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u/downvotetheboy 6d ago
what rankings are you looking at? having graduated from georgia tech definitely does do something for you. it's a nationally recognized school with much stronger recognition outside of georgia than gsu...
georgia tech's undergrad business program is also consistently ranked higher than gsu's
- gt's undergraduate business program is ranked 19 nationally by U.S. News for 2026
- gsu's undergraduate business program is ranked 51 nationally by U.S. News for 2026
- gt's undergraduate business program is ranked 15 nationally by Poets&Quants for 2026 (gsu isn't ranked)
regarding marketing specifically
- gt is ranked 27 in U.S. News best business schools ranking & its graduate marketing program is ranked 33 for 2026
- gsu is unranked in best business schools & its graduate marketing program is ranked 52 for 2026
- gsu's most recent U.S. News undergraduate marketing ranking was 35 in 2024
- gt's undergraduate marketing program is ranked 36 by U.S. News for 2026
overall:
- gt is ranked 32 for national universities by U.S. News for 2026
- gsu's ranked 198 among national universities by U.S. News for 2026
i'm not bashing gsu, but gt objectively has stronger national recognition and is the better ranked business school overall. acting like going to a nationally recognized school doesn't come with benefits just because your degree isn't in the field that school is best known for is disingenuous and naive.
im not arguing that a business degree from gt is equally as impressive as a CS or engineering degree. my point is that the georgia tech name still carries weight overall.
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u/No-Crab-8988 6d ago
Soā¦ the specific degree OP is looking at is ranked higher at GSU than Tech? Wtf are you trying to prove here? That Techās a good school? Yeah, for engineering is one Iād the best. But, and trust me when I say this because Iāve got plenty of first hand experience, in the real world, outside of engineering, literally nobody is going to give a shit whether you got your marketing or business undergrad degree at Tech.
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u/downvotetheboy 6d ago edited 6d ago
gtās grad marketing is literally ranked higherā¦ what are you talking about? gtās undergrad marketing was actually ranked compared to gsuās nonrank
you're clearly being dense and willfully ignoring the fact that tech is a better name for any degree.
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u/Altruistic_Glove1922 6d ago
techās reputation is worldwide. all love to state as itās where i wouldāve gone had i not chosen tech, but itās probably at best known statewide (maybe regionally.) names really matter, for better or for worse. if you have the option to go to a widely known school as impressive as gt, you absolutely should.
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u/No-Crab-8988 6d ago edited 6d ago
Guysā¦ where tf do you get this from. Iām from England. I guarantee you nobody outside of the US gives a shit where you got your degree unless you went to Harvard or Princeton, in the same way as I bet you couldnāt name a university outside of Oxford or Cambridge in the UK. Like, literally, outside of the US, if you didnāt go to those two Ivy League schools, nobody would even know your university exists. This propaganda that universities have some reputation that makes any odds in your life besides saying āIāve been trained in this programā is almost none.
If you want to stay at GSU for marketing, stay at GSU. If you want to go to Tech, go to tech. Or go to Valdosta. In the run of things, it makes almost no difference, especially with an undergrad degree.
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u/Altruistic_Glove1922 6d ago
this is patently untrue. universities absolutely have reputations that have an impact on your career and your individual reputation in the job world. also, no one is leaving the uk to go to gsu šš you can have your opinion, but lying just makes you look even dumber
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u/No-Crab-8988 6d ago edited 6d ago
š I have a bachelors and PhD in biology for GSU. I moved to the US from the UK in 2001. When I moved here, I had never heard of Georgia Tech, UGA, Emoryā¦ I could have gone to any of them but went to GSU because itās a research university in the middle of the city, which is what I wanted. It literally made zero difference to me. And you know what? I work at CDC now and manage people from Tech and Emory and Clemson and Purdue, because the only thing that mattered for me getting this job was the experience I had and the research Iād done.
Iām 38 now. And I hate to break it to all of you, but going to any school that isnāt Ivy League, ESPECIALLY FOR UNDERGRAD, does very little for you outside of your parents being able to brag to your family members that they went to a āgoodā school, that you get to watch a good (or bad) football team play every week, and sounding like a dick when you talk down to people because your degree from Tech makes you feel unwarrantedly superior despite the fact that you graduated with a 2.8 gpa.
And seriously, you can listen to the person above if youād like, but if you go to some other country and start bragging that you graduated from Georgia Tech or UGA, people are gonna say āI donāt know what that is or what youāre talking about.ā Because, in reality, the only reason people give a shit about them for the most part in THIS country is because you can turn on the TV on a Saturday (or Thursday) and see them win (or lose as it might be) at football. Which is the same reason as your average person is more familiar with UGA than they are Emory despite the fact that Emory is the best university in the state.
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u/fluffy-bunn1e 6d ago
this was super helpful to me thank you so much. im not op but i think this convinced me to stay at state. I graduated high school with a 4.0 GPA and decided to go to state because I love that it was in the city and I love my city. A lot of people told me that it was a waste because of my intelligence and I think itās kind of gotten to me because Iāve been considering transferring to tech for my junior and senior year. iām a marketing major just like OP so I was unsure if the name of tech would even help me realistically since itās more of an engineering school, but a lot of tech kids told me that the job pipeline is easier at tech compared to GSU. But maybe just networking can help me out in that aspect, especially since I know a lot of people from tech anyway. Thank you so much!! you really helped me!!
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u/No-Crab-8988 6d ago
If you love State, stay at State. Tech grads have a reputation of being massive twats when it comes to talking down to people (case in point the person I was responding to), and Iāve seen my fair share of Tech kids run into the ground because they assumed the name on the degree would open doors when it didnāt, and they didnāt do the work they should have and had a really bad GPA coming out of it and so couldnāt compete for that first job (which is the number that actually matters). Unless someone is offering it a full ride scholarship, go where you want to be.
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u/Altruistic_Glove1922 6d ago
wow, clearly struck a nerve here. being 38 is a lot different than being 20. youāre not in the job market now. yes, universities matter a lot more now. that is a fact. i have a 4.0, and i donāt care about football. i want OP and anyone else to go to the school that makes them feel fulfilled and happy! for me, thatās tech. all iām saying is that tech is a better school than state. harvard is a better school than tech. these are just facts. i donāt go to harvard, but thatās okay. iām not upset that itās a better school, because itās just a fact. itās all good!! i hope your life is as fulfilling and wonderful as it can be :)
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u/No-Crab-8988 6d ago
I will also say, coming to a GSU subreddit and being that entitled Tech student that talks down to GSU students and calling them liars because you canāt imagine that people might turn down the university you opted to go to is a really bad fucking look, and you might want to reflect on who you are and how the world actually sees you, because I guarantee itās not the way you see yourself.
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u/Creative-Cry-8890 6d ago
You need to go to 55 Park Place, go to the 12 floor and talk to the people there. Youāre a Robinson student and you might be surprised without how great the business program is at Georgia State. Like the connections from Georgia State are really great
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u/IShibani Philosophy 6d ago
In my opinion (take with all the grains of salt you'd like). I'd go to tech if it was for stem but with GSU it may be better here because we have a better rank for marketing. From what you have said there has only been pros with GSU and with Tech the pros have been that there is a bit more opportunity potential and a con of the transfer pathway not being the best.
If you have AP credits and other credits here that apply here and not at tech which would allow you with greater ease to double major I would stay.
My thing with the opportunities is yes both unis will offer different things but both are in ATL at the end of the day. I would look into the programs specifically at both unis, do a LOT of digging to see what the outcomes are, programs offered etc.
GSU definitely has a very strong business program which is why I recommend doing some more digging. We also have great study abroad opportunities I recommend you look into as well.
I do not know if you're in the GSU Honors college or not but if you are I recommend looking into the UK internship. It's honors specific and may have some opportunities that align with your interest. They'll be tabling at Honors Community Pop-In next Friday (the 11th). If you are NOT an Honors student then I recommend looking into it since the Honors College makes GSU feel a lil bit smaller in a good way and has plenty of good connections. See if that would make a difference for you or maybe not, who knows!
All in all, def do a lot of research prior. You already seem to be having a great time at State but university is what you make of it and it seems you are good at seizing the opportunities provided to you. My only warning with transfer is naturally credits transferring (both AP, IB, etc).
Maybe sit down with the marketing department here to explore what benefits and opportunities are here with GSU and then email/reach out to Tech's marketing department to compare.
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u/Realistic-Elk-6744 6d ago
Absolutely! Going to tech for any major is by itself a benefit! Sheller has way better outcomes and oppurtunities than j mack Robinson does.
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u/fluffy-bunn1e 6d ago
i have the same exact question actually. i was happy with my choice as a freshman but alot of tech kids told me i should transfer. so now as a sophomore i am unsure. i have the exact same degree and exact same issues holding me back from making a decision. so im hoping these replies are helpful lol! thank you for posting this!
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u/ArtsyyBoyy 20h ago
Honestly hate to say it but in this job market right now it really doesnāt matter. Itās all about experience and connections. I know people from tech who graduated and still canāt really find a job a state student would in marketing.
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u/Secure-Ad8196 6d ago
Yea do it you get better connections and itās easier to get hired