EXECUTIVE MBA Profiles Publish Date 11/05/09

Emory University

Goizueta Business School

Getting In

PROGRAM BASICS

WeekendExecutive MBA Program at Emory University's Goizueta Business School

Goizueta Business School

1300 Clifton Road
Atlanta , Georgia 30322 United States

Status:

Private Institution

Length of program (months):

Classes meet:

Alternate weekends

Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

Resident: $ 92
Non Resident: $ 92

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

SCHOOL BASICS

Graduate business school enrollment:

Total: 885
Full-Time MBA: 375
Part-time MBA: 319
Executive MBA: 155
PhD Program: 36

Undergraduate business school enrollment:

673

Other graduate degree programs:

N/A

ADMISSIONS

Rolling admissions?

Yes

GMAT Required?

If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment?

The applicant's quantitative ability is reviewed by examining academic transcripts and other related documents. The Admissions Committe reserves the right to ask for a GMAT score for any candidate.

Middle 80% range of GMAT scores:

N/A

Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers?

Yes

Application fee:

$ 150

Number of applications to the newest class:

169

Applicants accepted:

89 %

Admitted applicants enrolled:

55 %

Reapplicants from prior years:

1 %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied:

Applicant interviews are:

Required

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

99 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

CLASS PROFILE

EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

Female: 22 %
International: 13 %

Entering students are from the following regions:

Africa : 0 %
Asia: 8 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 0 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 5 %
Middle East: 0 %
North America: 83 %
Oceania : 0 %
Western Europe: 4 %
Dual citizenship: 6 %

Entering North American citizens are from the following regions:

West: 1 %
Midwest: 0 %
Southwest: 1 %
South: 91 %
Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
Northeast: 4 %
Possessions and territories: 0 %
Canada: 3 %

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

African American: 13 %
Asian American: 10 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 1 %
Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0 %
Native American: 0 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 31 %
Chose not to report: 45 %

Average months of work experience:

154

Middle 80% range work experience, months:

From: 84
To: 247

Average age:

Middle 80% age range:

From: 29
To: 45

Work background:

Have advanced degrees: 19 %
Work in the nonprofit sector: 10 %
Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: n/a %
Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 5 %

EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus:

77 %

Average base salary for new EMBA entrant:

$ 117,411

Middle 80% base salary range:

Low: $ 65
High: $ 161

Students work in these functional categories:

Consulting: 16 %
Finance/Accounting: 18 %
General Management : 13 %
Human Resources: 2 %
Marketing/Sales: 21 %
Management Information Systems : 10 %
Operations/Logistics: 13 %
Other: 7 %

Students work in these industries:

Consulting: 17 %
Consumer Products: 15 %
Financial Services: 12 %
Government: 0 %
Manufacturing: 12 %
Media/Entertainment: 2 %
Non-Profit: 10 %
Petroleum/Energy: 5 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
Real Estate: 6 %
Technology: 12 %
Other: 5 %

Top organizations sending students:

CR Bard
Home Depot
Mirant
Deloitte
Accenture

FINANCIAL AID

EMBAs receiving financial aid through school:

54 %

Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months:

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality?

Yes

Maximum loan amount:

$ 50,000

Academics & Lifestyle

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 40
Non-Tenured: 40

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 19

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 9
Non-Tenured: 13

Minority Faculty:

Tenured: 12
Non-Tenured: 6

International Faculty:

Tenured: 3
Non-Tenured: 8

Faculty with PhDs:

Tenured: 40
Non-Tenured: 43

STUDENT LIFE

Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project?

Yes

Description:

Students travel to two countries outside the US as part of a capstone course on global business. The students meet with business leaders, consultants, media and local professors with a goal of learning how business is done

Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants?

Yes

Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants?

Yes

Description:

Rooms are available at the Emory Conference Center on campus but are not a part of the tuition.

Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym?

Yes

Special student/home/work/life initiatives:

Increased the number of family activities and sessions for partners and spouses.

How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles)

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods:

Case Study: 40 %
Distance Learning: 10 %
Experiential Learning: 0 %
Lectures: 30 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Projects: 10 %
Other: 5 %

Faculty also teaching in full-time program:

100 %

Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty:

53 %

Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience:

24 %

Average class size, core EMBA class:

Average class size, EMBA electives:

Elective courses:

Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

Hours per week in class: 8
Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 20

Last revision of core EMBA curriculum:

2000

Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium?

Yes

Description:

We offer a second format of the program built around 9 week long residencies. This format is 70% face to face and 30% distance. Student's start and finish classes face to face with distance work in between. The total number of instructor lead learning hours is the same as our traditional alternative weekend program that is being reported on in this survey.

Group work done via the Internet:

30 %

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

Domestic partnerships or in-house EMBA programs:

N/A

In-house EMBA programs provided for companies:

Recent changes to EMBA program:

Leadership and career skills have been expanded significantly and two senior career consultants have been added to work with our 2 professors who deliver the leadership content. They are senior people in their fields and both are partners.

TECHNOLOGY

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

Advanced presentation technology exists in all classrooms, breakout rooms & meeting spaces. Completed infrastructure for new building with $1.9 mil investment in AV & network technology. One network supports both buildings with 2700 wired connects. Seamless wireless exists within Goizueta buildings & campus-wide. New broadcast video studio, behavioral research lab, multimedia development center & video capture services. Recently added LCD panels throughout & flexible hands-on teaching classroom.

Amount spent:

$ 3,650,000

Alumni Affairs & Careers

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

7,852

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

20 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 524

Median gift from MBA alumni:

$ 150

Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year?

Business school endowment

$ 83,929,386

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.alumni.emory.edu

Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

http://www.goizueta.emory.edu/alumni

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Does the school offer EMBA students access to the career services office?

Yes

Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs?

Yes

What is the school's policy concerning recruiters targeting EMBA students for full-time jobs?

If a student has the permission of their company or is not sponsored by a company recruiters may meet our students.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

Additional school comments:

1) We have a GMAT waiver policy. Qualified applicants can apply for a waiver.

Graduate Comments

The program attracted strong leaders in a wide range of industries that elevated learnings both in class and out. The group structure allowed individuals to demonstrate their abilities by providing expert knowledge in their own areas. For example, as an operational management consultant I was able to provide my team key insights in our operations course. Conversely, in course such as accounting I was paired with a controller who could help explain the concepts we covered in class.

Instructors were challenged to find the appropriate level to teach subject matter because knowledge and skills of class varied tremendously. Admissions standards need to be raised to weed out those who just don't cut it.

Providing discount rates and a near by hotel would have been a great improvement. Like many students I needed lodging and though there are many hotels in the area I was unable to take advantage of an Emory University discount rate.

I feel that being from out of town I missed out on some of the benefits of the school including speaking events and certain electives. Perhaps more could be done to include out of town students, or recommend the modular instead of weekend program.

Our graduating class had a tough time due to the economic situation and a lot of students lost jobs during the program. The school was able to address this very quickly including adding two full time career counselors for our class only, professors organizing networking events with executives, and professors personally helping place students in jobs. I think this is above and beyond for an Executive MBA and I was extremely impressed at how quickly they made these things happen.

Emory implements a generalized curriculum; however specialization is achievable through taking additional evening classes through Emory's evening MBA program. The catalog of these courses was quite diverse and supplemented the general EMBA curriculum well. It allowed me to achieve a concentration in finance as well as take several great classes that I might have otherwise missed if not for the generalized curriculum.

The instructors in finance and organization management/leadership were very strong with good professional and academic backgrounds. They did an excellent job of connecting to not only their own areas but the other disciplines taught in the program. The marketing professors, however, were relatively less qualified and could have done better to make their courses more relevant and connected to the other classes in the program.

The core faculty has been there for quite a while. They are well known in their fields and all have been published many times. In each instance that I needed to meet with a professor, they graciously made time in their schedules. I would also say that each professor I had took the time to get to know me personally and tried to gain an understanding of my goals.

The only thing I wish is that we would have had an opportunity to take additional electives. We had electives, but not in every term.

The support staff is incredible, thinking of every detail and providing more than what was expected in a proactive and advanced manner. The community at Emory is very strong, not just in the EMBA program, but in the Atlanta community. Furthermore, world-wide networks, visiting guest speakers on an almost daily basis made it feel like a global community. Additionally the international component was an experience of a lifetime professionally, academically, and personally.

Efforts are made by the EMBA dean and administrators to review current performance, identify opportunities, and take responsibility and action to improve. Changes are seen daily, weekly, monthly and annually depending on the scope. My expectations were high at the onset and were far exceeded during and after the program.

The professors that teach at Emory have excellent academic and business resumes. Many were called on by local and national news channels to weigh in on news topics (especially in the area of economics). However, the program sometimes relies more heavily on academia than real world.