The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) offers a joint doctorate degree program between the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and the Politecnico di Milano (PdM).

Politecnico di Milano is a highly ranked technical university located in one of the most industrialized regions of Italy Lombardy. It has close ties with industry at the national, European, and international levels; it shares similar strategic goals as those of Georgia Tech; it has complimentary resources that fully support students and faculty; and it participates in a number of important academic and economic projects within Europe and abroad.

This joint Ph.D. program will afford graduate students from each university the opportunity to: study and conduct research at an international peer engineering, science and computer research institution; gain confidence in working as a member of an international team; and live and study in an environment outside of their home country.