<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I was recently accepted to GT under the management degree. I was wondering if someone could offer any insight on the program.</p>
<p>I am thinking of Finance or IT as a possible concentration.</p>
<p>Would you recommend GT for business? I live in TN and GT is one of the best business schools in the southeast? </p>
<p>I was also wondering if people at GT look down upon management majors.....I have heard this is a problem.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Don’t worry about a few engineers trying to make themselves feel better by putting down MGT majors. They are jealous of how much MGT students like their classes, how nice their building is, that their building is in Tech Square, and that the MGT alumni are generally among the most successful and most generous of GT alumni. Pretty junior high-ish to need to step on someone else to make yourself feel better, no? :-)</p>
<p>Haha…so true. So what about the actual College of Management? Is is really hard and are there fun classes??</p>
<p>What are some of the sun electives and what makes GT a good place for business?</p>
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<p>The nice thing about GT is that you can do both. There are enough MGT electives in the BS degree to allow for multiple certificates. Also, you do not really have to make a decision for several years. </p>
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<p>In the Southeast, it is one of the top business schools that have undergraduate programs, along with UVA, UNC, and Emory. Tech, however, is not looked upon as highly as Emory or Duke (economics) because of lower overall ranking (which is heavily biased towards private schools). UGA likes to make some noise about their program, but it’s much less recruited than GT and relies on specialty programs (insurance, real estate) not offered at many schools to boost its rankings.</p>
<p>As far as the US goes, GT is at the bottom of the first tier, mostly behind all of the private schools that are difficult to jump. The graduate school (which is what people use to rank business programs) ranks #22 in the country, #7 among public schools, and is tied with Emory. </p>
<p>The CoM draws a large number of employers, mostly looking for technology savvy undergraduates. Students have a very good starting salary, and place well in professional and graduate schools.</p>
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<p>There’s no problem. There are a few reasons Engineers look down on business majors:</p>
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<li><p>MGT majors make fun of themselves. See:[YouTube</a> - “M-Train” Rap Music Video - The GTGs, GA Tech’s gtg491y and gtg562h](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzNKKrYHqY]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzNKKrYHqY)</p></li>
<li><p>MGT is the “drop out major”. Most students that fail out of engineering do it not because they are stupid (they were admitted to Tech, after all) but because they can’t handle the higher level math that engineering requires. So where do they go? To the other large college on campus, which still has high paying salaries but does not require higher level math: the College of Management. Over 2/3rds of BSMGT graduates last year started in engineering or CS.</p></li>
<li><p>MGT is the “athlete major”. Because MGT is large, has many electives in the program, and does not require math beyond Survey of Calculus (which is not really Calculus), the Athletic Associations puts most of the athletes in that program.</p></li>
<li><p>MGT is the “low requirement major”. A BSM degree requires 122 hours with 30 of those hours being essentially electives (MGT, non-MGT, or Free). A BSChE requires 132 hours with only 6 being free. Also, in MGT you can choose your science (including earth and atmospheric science). In engineering, you usually must take calculus-based physics (two semesters), and chemistry (two semesters). Engineering requires a large number of labs (which eat up entire evenings), while MGT does not.</p></li>
<li><p>MGT is the “fun major”. While a lecture in the college of engineering usually involves tedious math performed on a white board and a simulation involves operating and troubleshooting a mechanical piece of equipment, in MGT a lecture involves a class discussion about how to look at a problem and a simulation involves ordering beer from a distributor. </p></li>
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<p>Are these things a problem? Not really. The “fun major” aspect is probably a good thing, and comes from the foundations of business (often in intuition and not necessarily in math). The “low requirement major” is also a good thing and comes from the different requirements of AACSB and ABET-EAC. The “athlete major” and “drop out major” aspects can be troublesome, because frankly you’ll see some students in the college that have no business being there (no pun intended), but you’ll see that anywhere, and as long as you associate with overachievers (who outnumber the underachievers), you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>When you say accepted recently, did you apply by October or November deadline? I have heard some things about students’ buzzports saying that they were accepted now, before the December 16 notification…</p>
<p>Wow!!! Thanks G.P. Burdell that was a great response and I am really excited now and have no worries. I am the type of person that surrounds myself with good people and I am happy to hear that. I was a little worried about the math though, I am in Calc AB AP, but I am nothing great, but your response made me feel more secure about that aspect.Thanks again!!!</p>
<p>marsguo-I applied on the Oct. 1 deadline and was accepted.</p>