Program Basics

• • Weekend Executive MBA Program
  • Goizueta Business School
  • 1300 Clifton Road
  • GA
  • Atlanta, 30322, Georgia
  • United States
  • Status:
    • Private
  • Length of program (months): 16

• Classes meet:

  • • Alternate weekends

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $95,600.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

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

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 764
  • Full-Time MBA: 312
  • Part-Time MBA: 273
  • Executive MBA: 142
  • PhD Program: 37
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 634

ADMISSIONS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT Required? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 25th Percentile 600
  • 90th Percentile 710
  • 10th Percentile 510
  • 50th Percentile (median) 530
  • Average GMAT Score 599
  • 75th Percentile 675

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • Average GMAT Score 600
  • 50th Percentile (median) 560
  • 25th Percentile 530
  • 10th Percentile 510
  • 75th Percentile 675
  • 90th Percentile 696
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
  • Application fee: $150.00
  • Number of applications to the newest class: 133
  • Applicants accepted: 90 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 58 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 2
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 100 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • Female: 25 %
  • International: 16 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Asia: 7 %
  • Europe: 4 %
  • North America: 85 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 4 %

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

  • Southwest: 2 %
  • South: 98 %

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

  • African American: 17 %
  • Asian American: 17 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 9 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 28 %
  • Chose not to report: 29 %
• • Average months of work experience: 151

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 80
  • To: 243
• • Average age: 36

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 29
  • To: 43

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 28 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 9 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 14 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 91 %
  • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $141,160.00

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $60,000.00
  • High: $153,000.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 10 %
  • Finance/Accounting 12 %
  • General Management : 22 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 26 %
  • Management Information Systems : 4 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 22 %
  • Other: 4 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 7 %
  • Consumer Products: 12 %
  • Financial Services: 9 %
  • Government: 3 %
  • Manufacturing: 17 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
  • Non-Profit: 7 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 10 %
  • Real Estate: 7 %
  • Technology: 14 %
  • Other: 14 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • GE
  • Coca Cola
  • IBM
  • SunTrust
  • Home Depot

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 26 %
  • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit
  • 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: 96

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 39
  • Non-Tenured: 40

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 17

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 9
  • Non-Tenured: 12

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 12
  • Non-Tenured: 10

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 4
  • Non-Tenured: 11

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 39
  • Non-Tenured: 43

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: Students travel to 2 countries outside of the United States
  • 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 available at the Emory Conference Center Hotel
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
  • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Partners' Cohort
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 15

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods:

  • Case Study: 40 %
  • Distance Learning: 5 %
  • Experiential Learning: 5 %
  • Lectures: 30 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 10 %
  • Other: 5 %
• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 100 %
  • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 47 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 38
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 30
  • Elective courses: 96

• 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: 2002
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? Yes
  • Describe distance learning EMBA: Modular EMBA is a HYBRID format of 70% face to face contact hours with faculty and 30% distance. Students start and finish classes face to face with distance learning in between.
  • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MD (Medicine), Other, MBA/MHSA (Health Services Administration)
  • Leading areas of study: Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, 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
  • Completed Global Business Practice and International Colloquium required projects
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2002

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Advanced presentation technology in classrooms & meeting spaces. Network upgrades-seamless use across campus: uplift wired network to 1GB and wireless to 802.11n. Broadcast studio & auditorium upgrade to professional HD systems. Computing Ctr added high-speed, multi-function printers. “Going green” through efficiency, virtualization & cloud computing. Leveraging collaboration technologies & an array of operating systems, tablets & mobile devices to create anytime/anywhere experience.
  • Amount spent: $1,800,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 8,608
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 23
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 16
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 15
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $304.00
  • 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 $100,015,534.00
  • 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.alumni.emory.edu
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.alumniconnections.com
  • 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? Yes
  • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: Sponsored students must have the permission of their company.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • Additional school comments: The Goizueta Business School has one of the oldest Executive MBA programs. GBS graduated its first class 33 years ago.

• • -I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with the Goizueta Modular EMBA program. My professors were engaging and brilliant, and my classmates enriched the experience in a way I could only have hoped. One of the best investments of time and money I have made.
    
    -The admissions process should have better screened applicants. The majority of my issues with the classroom experience were the result of questions that slowed down the rest of the class. These comments or questions always came from the same few students who, in my opinion, never should have been accepted into the program.
    
    -Emory's EMBA program gives the white glove treatment for its EMBAs. The student quality at Emory is perhaps underrated, these guys and girls are very smart and accomplished individuals. Combine that with a top-notch faculty, great administrative and career coaching/services support and you have the ingredients for a top business school. The school is clearly well funded and the facilities are of the highest quality. I'd do the program again in a heartbeat.
    
    -I’d like to see more direct involvement and follow through from the career services department.
    
    -Emory was a great experience. I grew personally and professionally and was exposed to new ideas, real business world issues and challenges that were current and relevant. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to explore themselves deeper and advance their professional career.
    
    -I had an incredible experience at Emory. It was worth the time and money and I would do it again with out question. There is a great sense of community at Emory as well as a focus on leadership and has a global perspective.
    
    -The school should use more case studies focusing on topics that address women interests (the HBS case studies were all male focused). They should also use case studies on minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
    
    -Most of the professors are world-class thought leaders. The university strongly stresses community, ethics and leadership. Finance and Strategy coursework were challenging and relevant taught by fantastic teachers.
    
    -The marketing faculty needs to be improved. They are past their prime and their programs weren't well thought out and integrated with the rest of the program.
    
    -It would have been helpful to have more opportunities to integrate assignments that required application to our own business environments, followed by review and feedback by the professors. The opportunities we did receive for this kind of application were extremely valuable.
    
    -The entrepreneurial course should have been the flagship course offered during the last two to three modules with the international colloquium offered during the middle of the program; this way, a lot of the learning could be geared toward and applied to a final entrepreneurial idea or project.
    
    -I’d like to see more emphasis on team building. As an example, include an overall "grade" for team participation. The grade should be derived primarily from the students, perhaps with input from the OB/Leadership professors.
    
    -Our trip to Vietnam, Hong Kong and Mainland China at the end of the program was an amazing experience. It allowed us to reinforce all our learnings for the duration of the program.