Overview of Minors and Certificates

Georgia Tech offers over 40 minors and over 50 certificate options. A minor consists of a minimum of 15 credit hours in an area outside of your major.  A minor will appear on your transcript.  A certificate consists of a minimum of 12 semester hours in an area outside of your major.  A certificate will not appear on your transcript, but you will receive a certificate indicating that you have completed the program.

• Current List of Minors
• Current List of Certificates
• How to Declare/Remove a Minor
• How to Declare a Certificate
• How Minor and Certificate Classes can be Used (for ME/NRE Students)
• Minors and Certificates in the Woodruff School
• Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Minor
• Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Certificate
• We do not offer a certificate or minor in Mechanical Engineering.

Declaring Minors

• Declaring a Minor
• Declare a Minor - Minors are declared by filling out a minor declaration form.  Your ME/NRE advisor and the advisor in the department offering the minor must both sign it. To obtain the ME, NRE or UEC signature, drop the form off at the front desk in MRDC room 3112, building 135 on the campus map.  You can pick it up the following business day from our office.  Click here for our office hours. The form will be signed up uploaded in GradesFirst within 48 business hours of when you email the form.  You can down it from GradesFirst, under the reports tab.
• After obtaining all signatures, turn the signed form into the registrar’s office in the or email it to the registrar's office.
• Minor Program of Study - When students apply to graduate, they must turn in a Minor Form (Minor Program of Study) to the Registrar's Office. Your ME/NRE academic advisor and the advisor in the department offering the minor must both sign it.
• Removing a Minor
• Minors can be removed by also filling out the minor declaration form.  our ME/NRE advisor and the advisor in the department offering the minor must both sign it. To obtain the ME, NRE or UEC signature, drop the form off at the front desk in MRDC room 3112, building 135 on the campus map.  You can pick it up the following business day from our office.  Click here for our office hours. The form will be signed up uploaded in GradesFirst within 48 business hours of when you email the form.  You can down it from GradesFirst, under the reports tab.
• After obtaining all signature, turn the signed form into the registrar’s office in the or email it to the registrar's office.
• Students who previously declared a minor and did not finish it, must remove the minor when they apply to graduate.  The minor can be removed by filling out the minor declaration form.

Declaring Certificates

• Declaring a Certificate
• The semester that you graduate, fill out the Certificate Form and turn it in to the department offering the certificate. You will need to talk to the department offering the certificate to find the form.  Once your certificate is approved the department offering the certificate will mail it to you.
• Certificates are not officially declared with a form.  Students need to work directly with the department offering the certificate to take the classes.

How Minor & Certificate Classes Can be Used in your Curriculum

• Minor Rules and Regulations
• A student can receive a maximum of two minors.
• Minor classes cannot be double counted as minor classes and humanities or social science electives.
• ME Students:  Minor classes can be used to satisfy Free Electives if the classes meets the requirements for as a free elective. Minor classes can be used as an ME elective only if the class is cross-listed with an approved ME elective.
• NRE Students:  Minor classes can be used to satisfy Free Electives, Technical Electives, Math/Science Elective or Engineering Electives if the classes meet the requirements for that particular class.
• Click here for additional minor rules.
• Certificate Rules and Regulations
• There is no limit to the number of certificates that a student can earn.
• Certificate classes can be double counted as certificate classes and humanities and/or social science electives as long as it is approved by the department offering the certificate.
• ME Students:  Certificate classes can be used to satisfy Free Electives if the class meets the free elective requirements.  Certificate classes can be used as an ME elective only if the class is cross-listed with an approved ME elective.
• NRE Students:  Certificate classes can be used to satisfy Free Electives, Technical Electives, Math/Science Elective or Engineering Electives if the classes meet the requirements for that particular class.
• Click here for additional certificate rules.