Program Basics

• • Full-time MBA
  • Terry College of Business
  • 310 Herty Drive
  • 350 Brooks Hall
  • Athens, 30602, Georgia
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://mba.terry.uga.edu/fulltime/
  • Status: Public
  • Program e-mail address: terrymba@uga.edu
  • 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
• • Other graduate degree programs:
    • Master of Accounting
    • Other
  • Master of Marketing Research; Master of Internet Technology: Master of Economics

PROGRAM COSTS

• Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

  • Resident: $27,568.00
  • Nonresident: $62,308.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $30,284.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $47,654.00

PROGRAM LENGTH

• • Full-time program (months): 22

ADMISSIONS

• Application Deadlines

  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Oct 17, 2011
  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Dec 1, 2011
  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Jan 18, 2012
  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Mar 1, 2012
• • Does the program have rolling admissions? No
  • Is proficiency in English required for admission? Yes
  • Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required? Yes

• Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

  • • IELTS
    • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 647

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  • GMAT Score: Important
  • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
  • Application Essays: Important
  • Interviews: Very Important
  • Recommendations: Important
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Important

APPLICANTS

• • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 219
  • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 41 %
  • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 57 %
  • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 1 %
  • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 100 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 16
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 3
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 53 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

APPLICANT POOL

• • International applications received: 48 %
  • Applications from women received: 35 %
  • Mean base salary forgone: $45,009.00
  • Median base salary forgone: $45,000.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Full-time students in newest entering class (2010-2011) that are:

  • Female: 22 %
  • International: 18 %
  • Married: 26 %

• Students from following regions:

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 14 %
  • Europe: 2 %
  • North America: 82 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Dual citizenship: 0 %

• Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class that are:

  • African American: 7 %
  • Asian American: 2 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 3 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 86 %
  • Chose not to report: 2 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class who are from the following regions:

  • Northeast: 2 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 5 %
  • South: 74 %
  • Southwest: 7 %
  • Midwest: 5 %
  • West: 7 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %
• • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 53
  • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 53

• Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

  • From: 14
  • To: 81
• • Median age of entering class: 28
  • Mean age of entering class: 28

FINANCIAL AID

• • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
  • Full-time MBAs who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 100 %
  • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 96 %
  • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $26,907.00
  • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $28,914.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
    • academic merit
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? all candidates are considered for scholarship
  • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $7,264.00
  • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 100 %
  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? No

GMAT

• • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 10th Percentile 530
  • 75th Percentile 670
  • 25th Percentile 590
  • 90th Percentile 700
  • Average GMAT Score 617
  • 50th Percentile (median) 630

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 25th Percentile 600
  • 75th Percentile 700
  • 50th Percentile (median) 640
  • 10th Percentile 590
  • 90th Percentile 710
  • Average GMAT Score 643

CLASS OFFERINGS

• • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 51
  • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 24
  • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 34

• Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2010:

  • Marketing Strategy

• Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

  • • Finance
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Marketing
    • Real Estate
    • Operations Management
    • Insurance

• Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

  • • MBA/JD (Law)
• • Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program? No

• The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:

  • • Marketing
    • Leadership
    • Real Estate
    • Operations Management
    • Insurance

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

• Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Consulting
    • Other
    • Finance
    • Marketing

• Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Partners/Family
    • Women in MBA
    • Volunteer

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods used:

  • Case Study: 20 %
  • Experiential Learning: 25 %
  • Lectures: 25 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 25 %

• Requirements for graduation:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Other
  • 45 hrs per year of volunteer community service

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 excess 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

• • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 88 %
  • Graduates not seeking employment: 12 %
  • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

• Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

  • Destination: Los Angeles, CA - National Black MBA Association Conference & Career Expo
  • Month: September
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: Chicago, IL - National Society of Hispanic MBAs Conference & Career Expo
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: Louisville, KY - National Association of Women MBAs Conference
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: Nashville, TN - Health Care Business Alliance Conference
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: Jacksonville, FL - Company vists
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial

• Primary source of job offer:

  • School-facilitated activities: 62 %
  • Graduate-facilitated activities: 38 %
  • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

• Job Offers for 2011 graduates

  • Received first job offer by graduation: 57 %
  • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 19 %
  • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 19 %
  • Did not report having received a job offer: 5 %
  • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 49 %
  • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 22 %
  • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 24 %
  • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 5 %

• Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

  • Ernst & Young 2
  • SunTrust Robinson Humphrey 2
  • KPMG 2
• • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 46 %

• Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

  • Mean base salary: $85,442.00
  • Median base salary: $87,500.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $19,682.00
  • Median signing bonus: $20,000.00
  • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $6,148.00
  • Median other guaranteed compensation: $6,063.00

• Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 27 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 35 %
  • General Management: 4 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 15 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 11 %
  • Other: 8 %

• Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Government: 4 %
  • Consulting: 27 %
  • Consumer Products: 15 %
  • Financial Services: 19 %
  • Non-Profit: 4 %
  • Real Estate: 8 %
  • Technology: 12 %
  • Other: 11 %

• Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

  • North America: 100 %

• Within the U.S., graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

  • Northeast: 15 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 4 %
  • South: 50 %
  • Southwest: 12 %
  • Midwest: 15 %
  • West: 4 %

• Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

  • SunTrust Robinson Humphrey 2
  • Premier, Inc. 2
  • Lowe's Companies, Inc. 2
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • School Comments: Although only one full scholarship is offered per year, approximately the top 50% of each incoming class is selected to receive a graduate assistantship. An assistantship award covers all tuition (with the exception of a $25 enrollment charge per semester) and provides an $8,000 stipend per year.”

• • -Terry is blessed with great faculty and small size program that avail student the opportunity to fraternize with themselves as well as with the faculty. Also, the available graduate assistantship is unmatched by any other school.
    
    -If you are willing to put in the effort the program is worth the money. However the name alone will not get you the job you want. You have to work for it.
    
    -I believe I received a top-tier education for about half the cost as a comparable institution. I can also count on using each and every professor as a reference.
    
    -As a career changer, the MBA was very important to me. However, I was a little disappointed by my program. It's currently in a transition phase and there is some confusion regarding the future direction of the program. Also, we have a relatively small class size, which made it difficult to get the attention of larger firms.
    
    -The University of Georgia offered many opportunities that other programs do not. First, the financial aid packages are not rivaled by any other program. Although the program is considered small by some standards, the size presents an amazing opportunity to become deeply involved in many organizations and activities. I was able to lead multiple projects, organizations and events. I doubt such an opportunity would have occurred at larger programs.
    
    -Faculty prefer to teach in the undergrad program and therefore MBA faculty are of a lower caliber. A new curriculum is being implemented, which may help to solve this problem, but in my experience the courses feel very disjointed and little effort is made to teach holistically.
    
    -I learned a great deal. I feel like I have improved in terms of understanding of many concepts. I feel more comfortable in teams, and in leadership roles. I also enjoyed many extra curricular activities. Great diversity. Met great friends from Germany, California, Africa, Minnesota. My only drawback is the career management center. The school has very few connections for individuals searching for marketing careers.
    
    -UGA is not for everyone. I have a background in investment banking with a well known bulge bracket firm, I knew reentering the investment banking scene would be easier for me than others. I relied on career management to make initial informal introductions to alumni in Charlotte and then networked my way to a position from there. I made more calls, visited more people, and worked harder than your average MBA student (at any business school) making sure I kept myself a visible candidate at multiple firms. If a student wants to focus solely on classroom activity and interviews arranged by the career center, they will have a harder time finding a position in investment banking. However, these comments are not applicable to my classmates pursuing careers in Real Estate and Consulting - they can sit back and know they have plenty of interviewing opportunities.
    
    -The MBA program at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business is particularly great for joint JD/MBA students. The Director of Student Services does everything in her power to make sure we understand the requirements of both graduate programs. The administrators are also very flexible if we JD/MBAs feel core MBA requirements overlap too much with our JD classes.