Program Basics

• • Terry College of Business
  • 3475 Lenox Rd NE
  • Suite 300
  • Atlanta, 30326, Georgia
  • United States
  • Status:
    • Public
  • Length of program (months): 18

• Classes meet:

  • • Occasional week-long sessions
    • One weekend per month
    • Via the Internet (unscheduled)

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $72,000.00
  • Non Resident: $77,000.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

  • • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 686
  • Full-Time MBA: 102
  • Executive MBA: 299
  • PhD Program: 70
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,348
  • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other

ADMISSIONS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT Required? No
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes
  • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? previous academic records, professional expertise, pre-enrollment tutorials
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
  • Application fee: $100.00
  • Number of applications to the newest class: 47
  • Applicants accepted: 91 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 86 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 93 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • Female: 30 %
  • International: 16 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 5 %
  • Europe: 4 %
  • North America: 86 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 5 %
  • Dual citizenship: 0 %

• Entering U.S. citizens are from the following regions:

  • South: 100 %

• U.S. students in newest entering class who are:

  • African American: 5 %
  • Asian American: 3 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 92 %
• • Average months of work experience: 150

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 81
  • To: 228
• • Average age: 37

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 29
  • To: 43

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 11 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 11 %
  • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 14 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 5 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 81 %
  • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $113,755.00

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $73,066.00
  • High: $135,000.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 0 %
  • Finance/Accounting 11 %
  • General Management : 32 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 27 %
  • Management Information Systems : 16 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 11 %
  • Other: 3 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 5 %
  • Consumer Products: 8 %
  • Financial Services: 8 %
  • Government: 3 %
  • Manufacturing: 11 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
  • Non-Profit: 8 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
  • Real Estate: 3 %
  • Technology: 22 %
  • Other: 24 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • Cisco
  • McKesson
  • Anheuser-Busch InBev
  • Kimberly Clark
  • Chick-fil-A

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 74 %
  • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit, Need, Other
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 0
  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? No

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 156

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 59
  • Non-Tenured: 71

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 26

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 11
  • Non-Tenured: 32

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 10
  • Non-Tenured: 12

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 6
  • Non-Tenured: 12

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 59
  • Non-Tenured: 77

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: 12-day international residency
  • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
  • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
  • Description: Hotel during residency week only.
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? No
  • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: professional & personal development workshops
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 19

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods:

  • Case Study: 20 %
  • Distance Learning: 40 %
  • Experiential Learning: 5 %
  • Lectures: 20 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 10 %
• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 25 %
  • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 94 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 35
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 35

• Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

  • Hours per week in class: 3
  • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 17
• • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2002
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
  • Describe distance learning EMBA: While not distance learning only programs, our EMBA and Fast Track Professional MBA deliver approximately 40-50% of the program content through distance learning technologies.
  • Leading areas of study: Leadership, General Management

• Graduation Requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2002

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Upgraded instructional hardware/software platforms, faculty/staff computing, admissions appl. software, & collaboration & admin. applications. Renovated classrooms; increased bandwidth at Exec. Ed campus; new Sales Lab for video recording & critiquing of presentations; upgraded computers in classrooms & labs; added Laptop cart for “mobile lab” & checkout services; implemented “Key Serving” for software license checkout & mgmt.; replaced wired & wireless network equip.
  • Amount spent: $1,071,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 5,998
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 5
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,539.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $77,764,002.00
  • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? Yes
  • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • University alumni networking site: http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/GAU
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.terry.uga.edu/alumni/online
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

CAREER SERVICES

• • Do EMBAs have access to career services? Yes
  • Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs? No

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • Additional school comments: In addition to our EMBA, our Fast Track Professional MBA emulates the EMBA by its accelerated pace and blended delivery model. Approximately 40-50% of the Fast Track Professional MBA content is delivered through distance learning technologies. Classroom meetings are held every other week in the evenings and on select Saturdays over 23 months.

• • -My only true complaint about the program is not really a complaint. I am frustrated because the UGA EMBA program took me out of my comfortable world and has caused me to think outside the box again. Since the program started, I have taken a material role in the formation and launch of three new companies with classmates, friends, and work colleagues.
    
    -The program had a lot of focus on how to do the analytics and less on how to interpret the results. I would have preferred the reverse.
    
    -I think some realignment should occur within the finance/accounting module. Students simply get overwhelmed with the current method of teaching.
    
    -The finance and cost management courses should be completely overhauled. More real world and current business applications and case studies should be added. Reduce the textbook reading and focus more on case studies.
    
    -My only suggestion is to add even more leadership curriculum activities. Although it was integrated into each course module, I would have liked more targeted time on campus to delve further into leadership/management/leading change. This is simply my personal preference.
    
    -I would stress more in-class participation and better defined grading policies.
    
    -I would have liked to work on real-life problems from companies and provide solutions back to them.
    
    -The support that the staff provided was always top shelf. Specifically, our international residency was to have been in Tokyo one week after the earthquake/tsunami. The staff immediately thought of our safety first and completely revised our itinerary to visit Hong Kong instead. The actions from a logistics perspective were tremendous but the school's ability to schedule the full number of business visits in Hong Kong on such short notice showed the depth of the school's contacts abroad. We did not miss a beat of learning on this trip.
    
    -The online learning platform is adequate but could be improved. When you're used to Google chat/video, Skype, Facebook, etc., you become accustomed to certain ease of use and capabilities that are often lacking in any online learning interface. My understanding is that the software vendor is under review.
    
    -I fully expect The Terry College of Business EMBA degree to be a turning point in my career and future.