Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute, Tianjin University (GTSI) is a Joint Institute between Georgia Tech and Tianjin University and is located in Shenzhen, often dubbed the “Silicon Valley of China”. GTSI has received approval from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and the Chinese Ministry of Education to offer Georgia Tech’s existing Master’s degree programs in Electrical and C
omputer Engineering (ECE), Analytics, Computer Science, Environmental Engineering, and Industrial Design, as well as the PhD degree in ECE . Georgia Tech is fully responsible for Georgia Tech academic programming at GTSI, which enrolls qualified students from China, the USA, and other countries around the world. Situated next to Hong Kong, Shenzhen has the fourth largest GDP in China and the highest GDP per capita among large- and medium-sized cities in mainland China. It is a clean, green, vibrant and very tech-oriented metropolis with a young and diverse population.