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Emory University, Goizueta Business School
There is good news and bad news.
The good news: If you get accepted into Emory University, you have an 80% shot of landing a spot in Goizueta Business School.
The bad news: Just 17% of applicants ever get into Emory – and the average SAT is 1470.
Those are tall odds, but Goizueta is worth it. It helps to think of Goizueta like an MBA program: it is a high touch, student-centric program. Look no further than P&Q’s 2018 alumni survey, where Goizueta ranked 5th for availability of faculty and among the top 10 business schools for academic advising, alumni contact, and overall alumni support. Thanks to a moderate 400 student class size, a class will develop a close-knit community. This is a dynamic that happens by design. To kick off the program, business majors are broken into teams during an off-site orientation. Here, they complete activities like rope courses and team challenges to build an esprit de corps. Later on, many class members will join an annual three day ski trip that further deepens their bonds.
“Falling down and laughing with friends can be transformative,” says Andrea Hershatter, the senior associate dean and director of the BBA Program. “The tone we would like to set is that we are interdependent, team-oriented, and there to support each other, which can sometimes get lost in the competitiveness of job search recruiting, or even just doing their best in classes.”
Alas, Goizueta is a bit of a throwback: a business school centered in a liberal arts university, par excellence. In fact, students can’t enter the business program until their junior years, though they can join all clubs and extracurricular activities long before then. The programming even includes unique concentrations tied to the liberal arts, including Film & Media Management and Art Management. For Hershatter, the liberal arts are foundational to the lessons and expectations inherent to the Goizueta experience.
“Our students start their college careers by thinking analytically and learning to express themselves effectively through their liberal arts education, and then the business school builds on it by creating multi-dimensional thinkers who are adept in problem-solving in our increasingly complex world.”
This gives Goizueta graduates certain inherent advantages when they enter the work world, adds Jane Hershman, who heads the business school’s career management center. “Our students have great critical thinking skills and they’re great presenters,” she tells P&Q in a 2018 interview. “We get that feedback a lot. They’re also strong writers because they have to be…We have a very collaborative culture. Our students are very good at understanding — even in an environment that’s supposed to be competitive — that you collaborate and help your classmates.”
That’s not the only advantage that business majors enjoy, either. The program is based smack dab in Atlanta, home to 15 Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, Delta Airlines, and Sun Trust. As a result, it isn’t hard to bring experts and projects into the classroom. Such riches translate into a 95% internship rate for the Class of 2018 (and an enviable $66,297 in average base pay), along with a top 5 ranking in return on investment.
Just don’t expect Goizueta to rest on its laurels. In recent years, the program has introduced a quantitative science (QSS) track, beefed up data analytics programming, and added Entrepreneurship and Health Innovation concentrations. That doesn’t even count a hackathon and co-working space for startup ventures. Most recently, the school has conducted an intensive curriculum review, where leadership is asking the tough questions and proposing the unimaginable. That means you’ll probably find Goizueta making headlines in the coming year.
“This is first time in a very long time faculty has spent an entire concrete effort tearing apart the curriculum,” says Hershatter.