University Of Georgia

Program Basics

• • Terry College of Business
  • 3475 Lenox Rd, NE, Suite 300
  • University of Georgia
  • 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: $69,000.00
  • Non Resident: $74,000.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

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

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 632
  • Full-Time MBA: 90
  • Executive MBA: 295
  • PhD Program: 68
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,392
  • Other graduate degree programs: other, Master of Accounting

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT Required? No
  • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? Previous academic record and performance on pre-enrollment subject matter tutorials.
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
  • Application fee: $100.00
  • Number of applications to the newest class: 42
  • Applicants accepted: 93 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 87 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 100 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 93 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • Female: 26 %
  • International: 0 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 0 %
  • Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
  • Middle East: 0 %
  • North America: 100 %
  • Oceania : 0 %
  • Western Europe: 0 %
  • Dual citizenship: 0 %

• Entering North American citizens are from the following regions:

  • South: 100 %

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

  • African American: 21 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 79 %
• • Average months of work experience: 184

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 72
  • To: 288
• • Average age: 39

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 29
  • To: 46

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 12 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 12 %
  • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 24 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 0 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 82 %

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $60,000.00
  • High: $190,000.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Finance/Accounting 15 %
  • General Management : 9 %
  • Human Resources: 3 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 44 %
  • Management Information Systems : 6 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 15 %
  • Other: 5 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consumer Products: 9 %
  • Government: 9 %
  • Manufacturing: 12 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 6 %
  • Non-Profit: 3 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 9 %
  • Real Estate: 3 %
  • Technology: 0 %
  • Other: 34 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • Turner Broadcasting System, Inc
  • Coca-Cola
  • Wendy's/Arby's Group
  • AT&T;
  • Cox Communications

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 73 %
  • 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: 151

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 53
  • Non-Tenured: 65

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 33

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 9
  • Non-Tenured: 31

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 8
  • Non-Tenured: 12

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 5
  • Non-Tenured: 11

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 53
  • Non-Tenured: 78

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 seminars and workshops, family-oriented events
  • 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: 40
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 40

• 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? Yes

• 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
    • Other
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  • Attend 12-day international residency

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Two classrooms renovated. Replaced Data Center UPS. Upgraded data storage & network equipment and the learning mgt. system. Replaced server architecture, wireless network & network security systems. Upgrades in the following technology areas: instructional technology hardware & software platforms, faculty & staff computing, admissions application software, & collaboration and administrative applications. Installed Sales Lab for video recording & critiquing class sales presentations.
  • Amount spent: $828,245.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 5,810
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
  • Business school endowment $66,707,364.00
  • 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
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

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 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.

• • UGA's focus on leadership, the Friday/Saturday structure, and Atlanta location made the program very competitive and supported the work-school-family balance that is required.
    
    
    
    
    They have a very structured program designed for the full-time worker to be able to take on an MBA program and successfully complete it on time. [There was an] excellent staff and highly qualified instructors.
    
    
    
    
    I felt that Terry College of Business eMBA had the exact right mix of classroom and distance study. The international residency was serious learning and the two weeks on campus were great for team building and feeling connected to the college. The level of service provided by the eMBA program was "Nordstrom's" like. I have a number of colleagues and direct reports in MBA programs. By comparison I felt I received a high quality business education with a better work-school-life balance.
    
    
    
    
    The program provided an in-depth study of business concepts and related business theory to the current economic environment [with an] excellent mixture of in-class and distance learning. The interaction between students and faculty was key in my learning experience.
    
    
    
    
    The Terry College of Business offers a convenient class location in Atlanta, organized class structure, easy and welcoming access to instructors, individualized tutoring, team assignments and activities, individualized course work, challenging assignments and testing, and residencies including a trip to Tokyo and Beijing. This learning environment offers a complete, rewarding, and top-notch EMBA experience through The Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia.
    
    
    
    
    UGA was the perfect fit for my schedule. The mix of people from different backgrounds and industries was very helpful, which I have heard was not the case at other Atlanta-area EMBA programs.
    
    
    
    
    The EMBA program at Terry is incredible. The staff goes out of its way to make the student feel like a customer, not a student. The program was also flexible and could be tailored to the individual's interests.
    
    
    
    
    UGA offered an excellent program, however, during the program I met other students in different EMBA programs, and I was interested in more entrepreunial courses and I was interested in the financial prerequiste courses that those programs offered since I came from an Information Technology background. The finance courses were a struggle for me and the university did not offer tutoring sessions. In my current role, I am seeing how valuable the finance courses are.
    
    
    
    
    Because the school was focused on growing the program, I believe they were a little loose with the admissions standards. We had a fairly high attrition rate. In the end, I was satisfied with my cohorts in the program. However, it was a bit of a struggle through the initial stages because of some weaker students.
    
    
    
    
    The UGA EMBA program is clearly designed to facilitate and generate not only learnings from the classroom, but learnings from all the knowledge the students bring to the program.