Program Basics

• • Georgia Tech MBA Program
  • College of Management
  • 800 West Peachtree St. NW
  • GA
  • Atanta, 30308, Georgia
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://mgt.gatech.edu/mba
  • Status: Public
  • Program e-mail address: mba@mgt.gatech.edu
  • Graduate business school is accredited by:
    • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 760
  • Full-Time MBA: 129
  • Part-Time MBA: 422
  • Executive MBA: 150
  • PhD Program: 59
• • Executive MBA is Management of Technology; Global Executive MBA

PROGRAM COSTS

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

  • Resident: $54,112.00
  • Nonresident: $77,232.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $40,600.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $52,160.00

PROGRAM LENGTH

• • Full-time program (months): 22

ADMISSIONS

• Application Deadlines

  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Jan 15, 2012
  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Mar 15, 2012
  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: May 1, 2012
• • Does the program have rolling admissions? Yes
  • 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?

  • • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 600

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  • GMAT Score: Very 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: 362
  • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 26 %
  • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 61 %
  • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 35 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

APPLICANT POOL

• • International applications received: 47 %
  • Applications from women received: 33 %

CLASS PROFILE

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

  • Female: 26 %
  • International: 19 %

• Students from following regions:

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 14 %
  • Europe: 2 %
  • North America: 80 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
  • Oceania: 2 %
  • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

  • African American: 4 %
  • Asian American: 13 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 7 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 76 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 0 %

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

  • Northeast: 7 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 7 %
  • South: 71 %
  • Southwest: 4 %
  • Midwest: 4 %
  • West: 7 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %
• • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 60
  • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 48

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

  • From: 26
  • To: 98
• • Median age of entering class: 27
  • 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: 58 %
  • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 54 %
  • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $23,448.00
  • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $20,550.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
    • academic merit
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? As part of the admissions application
  • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $3,563.00
  • 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
  • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $32,570.00

GMAT

• • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 10th Percentile 510
  • 50th Percentile (median) 650
  • 25th Percentile 590
  • 75th Percentile 690
  • Average GMAT Score 629
  • 90th Percentile 720

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 10th Percentile 620
  • 25th Percentile 640
  • 75th Percentile 710
  • 50th Percentile (median) 670
  • 90th Percentile 720
  • Average GMAT Score 674

CLASS OFFERINGS

• • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 62
  • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 24
  • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 56

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

  • Teamwork-Organizations
  • Management for Healthcare Enterprise
  • Digital Marketing
  • Authentic Leadership Development

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

  • • Finance
    • Management Information Systems
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Marketing
    • Real Estate
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Accounting
    • Operations Management
    • Strategy
    • Organizational Behavior
    • International Business
    • Technology
• • 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:

  • • Technology
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Management Information Systems
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Operations Management

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 102

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 44
  • Non-Tenured: 37

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 21

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 7
  • Non-Tenured: 15

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 11
  • Non-Tenured: 21

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 44
  • Non-Tenured: 37

STUDENT LIFE

• Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

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

• Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Black MBA Association
    • Women in MBA
    • Other

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods used:

  • Case Study: 20 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 20 %
  • Lectures: 35 %
  • Simulations: 0 %
  • Team Projects: 25 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Requirements for graduation:

  • • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Implemented Talisma CRM system Acquired additional data analysis SW and tools Acquired high capacity MFP copiers Upgraded digital signage system and client software Upgraded classroom projectors Deployed Tegrity presentation recording system Transitioned servers from HW to virtual Acquired new academic computer systems Acquired high performance server for virtualized computing Replaced two thirds of user PCs Upgrade all PhD candidates to laptops Added Three Bloomberg terminals
  • Amount spent: $1,201,626.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 2,848
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 17 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,186.00
  • 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: $38,579,799.00
  • 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://gtalumni.org/pages/networks
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
  • Does the B-SCHOOL offer career services for alumni? No
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

CAREER SERVICES

• • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 87 %
  • Graduates not seeking employment: 13 %
  • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

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

  • Destination: NBMBAA Conference
  • Month: September
  • Amount Paid By School: 0
  • Destination: NSHMBA
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: 0
  • Destination: NAWMBA
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: 0
  • Destination: Reaching Out MBA Conference
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: 0
  • Destination: MBA Veterans Conference
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: 0

• Primary source of job offer:

  • School-facilitated activities: 83 %
  • Graduate-facilitated activities: 17 %
  • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

• Job Offers for 2011 graduates

  • Received first job offer by graduation: 89 %
  • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 6 %
  • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
  • Did not report having received a job offer: 5 %
  • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 89 %
  • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 6 %
  • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
  • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 5 %

• Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

  • Bank of America 5
  • North Highland 4
  • KPMG 3
  • IBM 2
  • Capgemini 2
  • The Home Depot 2
  • Procter & Gamble 2
  • Ericsson 2
  • Worldpay 2
  • Coca Cola Refreshments 1
  • Texas Instruments 1
  • Oracle 1
  • Infosys 1
  • Deloitte Consulting 1
  • Emerson 1
• • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 58 %

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

  • Mean base salary: $90,326.00
  • Median base salary: $90,000.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $12,343.00
  • Median signing bonus: $10,000.00
  • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $12,522.00
  • Median other guaranteed compensation: $10,700.00

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

  • Consulting: 27 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 16 %
  • General Management: 6 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 26 %
  • Management Information Systems: 5 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 18 %
  • Other: 2 %

• Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Government: 0 %
  • Consulting: 26 %
  • Consumer Products: 15 %
  • Financial Services: 15 %
  • Manufacturing: 7 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 3 %
  • Non-Profit: 2 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 4 %
  • Real Estate: 2 %
  • Technology: 18 %
  • Other: 5 %

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

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 3 %
  • Europe: 2 %
  • North America: 95 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

  • Northeast: 4 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
  • South: 83 %
  • Southwest: 5 %
  • Midwest: 4 %
  • West: 4 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

  • AT&T 6
  • Bank of America 5
  • Delta Airlines 4
  • The Home Depot 3
  • Newell Rubbermaid 2
  • North Highland 2
  • PwC 2
  • Nestle Purina 2
  • Walmart 2
  • Verizon 2
  • Deloitte Consulting 2
  • Autotrader.com 2
  • Emerson 2
  • J&J 1
  • Qualcomm 1
• • Internships awarded that are paid: 100 %

• Weekly internship compensation:

  • Mean: $1,659.00
  • Median: $1,250.00
• • Average internship length in weeks: 12

• • -Georgia Tech offers a fantastic program for both education and professional growth as a student. As an engineering undergrad student, the students and faculty here did a fantastic job of providing a foundation of business knowledge for me to succeed. At the same time, they were able to foster strong critical thinking skills to effectively enable me to perform strategic analyses of a wide variety of business situations.
    
    -There are multiple things making GA Tech MBA program unique and very satisfactory: 1. Class size: 75 person, perfect number! Big enough to have multiple cultures, backgrounds, personalities; Small enough that allows us to feel like a big family. 2. Friendly administration: Students thoughts are valued. We all know that doors are open and we can share our thoughts and needs about class schedules, contents, and we all know that our demands are taken into account. 3. Quality professors: In all areas, GA Tech MBA program has outstanding professors.
    
    -The smaller size of GT's program is a big selling point in my mind. You have easy access to professors and a very collaborative, close-knit group of students in each class. The students, facilities, and professors are top-notch. Although there are a good number of former engineers (myself included), the program has plenty of diversity with regard to student backgrounds. Finally, it would also depend on what concentration an interested person wanted to pursue, as I would recommend GT for just about every concentration except for finance.
    
    -Georgia Tech's MBA is very good at certain specialties and not that strong in others. If a friend wanted to get into investment banking on wall street I would probably not recommend Georgia Tech.
    
    -The close bonds with our cohort and with alumni (due to our small size) provides a great networking experience. In addition, Georgia Tech has a very technologically and technically focused program, which is incredibly valuable in the marketplace. I was able to greatly increase my salary, change career fields, and make excellent contacts while paying the lowest tuition of any top school. The cost/benefit ratio for Georgia Tech was excellent.
    
    -This program can be described as "you get what you pay for". The quality of education was appropriate for the tuition level (close to the bottom for MBA programs) but the school doubled tuition rates starting in Fall 2010 which makes the "return on investment" unworthy of recommendation. Further, the Job Placement office was not very helpful and treated each student as a number. The emphasis was on finding any job and meeting their placement numbers, not finding the right job for each individual. There is also a definite sense of "favoritism" for those students who attended Georgia Tech as an undergrad which sours the experience for those who took on the new challenge of attending a new university.
    
    -The quality of education and opportunities for leadership within this program allow for personal development in a variety of areas. The program provides a solid core curriculum and the ability to tailor the program to meet your needs, and I think all students have benefited from this program structure.
    
    -For the money, students receive a stellar education, in a fabulous city, along-side a small, elite group of peers. Corporate hiring is broad and deep, with plenty of local high tech startups to wet the pallet of entrepreneurs. Faculty is top notch, facilities are modern (and maintained that way). I leave with a job at a top pharma outfit with zero debt.
    
    -I enjoyed everything about my experience at Georgia Tech - faculty, administration, fellow classmates, career services, and alumni. I had a lot of opportunities to take leadership on projects, work with executives from local and national companies, and improve my skills so that I was set up for success in my current post-graduation position. If I had the chance to re-do my MBA experience, I would not change a thing.
    
    -The MBA Career Services office is absolutely outstanding. Each student has an adviser that acts as his or her personal coach throughout the recruiting and acceptance process, to the extent that close, personal relationships are formed. They will go to any length to help a student land his or her "dream job."