(08-19-2015 04:39 PM)DawggoneEagle Wrote:  I don't think Tech merging with anyone makes any sense. They are what they are, a damn fine engineering school. To merge GT with anyone would lower their stature. I don't say this as a matter of insult, but Georgia State isn't in Georgia Tech's league institutionally, and the only thing they share in common is Atlanta,GA.

Merging with State would lower the reputation until they brought them up to par. I don't think merging with Emory would lower anything. And they could in short order do serious biomedical, biochemistry, and biomechanical research. Not many people know it, but lil ole Wake Forest does *serious* bio research right now. They are printing and growing functional organs.