I am a prospective student at Scheller at Georgia Tech. I am an instate resident, so going to GT will provide cheap for my parents. I wanted to ask how math and science oriented the school itself is. To be completely honest, math and science are not my strongest points, but I do know that I have to get through my core classes. I am a hard working student but wanted to know, besides the lab science and calculus classes I must take, is the business component of the school difficult too?
Emory was actually my first choice, but I was recently waitlisted. My other 2 options are NYU and Boston College, both that I will pay around 22k per year to attend.
For the money I would go with Tech. My D is there and although she is not in the business school, many of her friends are and they love it. Tons of opportunities and they all have jobs upon graduation with companies like Goldman Sachs etc. Save the money and use it to get an MBA at another university.
Use this as an idea (deflate some because I imagine graduate grades are included). I think Emory’s average is pretty similar for the business school where the median is like a B+ for most courses at most and the mean is maybe more like B/B+ (3.15-3.2) and has curved distributions with the A bracket having upwards to 35% at most and most people getting between B/B+ and a certain percentage of C’s (20% in cores).
@Beckley : Ummmm…more diverse job placement prospects. It actually makes sense as a Tech school or any school with really talented students would have a more interesting environment. Perhaps you can get more than what the typical business education offers as there is also a huge scene of innovation and invention to get involved in. In addition, I think Tech’s b-school also ranks higher according to business week if you buy into that sort of thing. I would imagine it has its advantages especially when you’re as selective as Tech.
@Beckley - my D goes to Tech -not an engineering major. She has people question her a lot -it is really irritating. I suppose it is a reasonable question -but people seem to ask it with a judgmental vibe.
It was Free (Zell Miller) 2) Likes Atlanta 3) Likes smart kids and diverse population 4) Felt UGA wasn’t a good fit
-did I mention it was Tuition Free??
She is doing really well. Has gotten to know her professors. There is a Technology slant to everything which she feels will give her a leg up and she enjoys it. Has internship opportunities.
DH works downtown close to GT. The company he works for hires GT grads including business majors. A business degree from GT is well respected. I do not agree with @Beckley that UGA is a better choice.
@MichiganGeorgia : That’s because it isn’t, there is no debate about that unless they are being facetious or shallow in suggesting that perhaps UGA business is easy and a business degree should be easy/ the stereotype one associateds with a business degree at other schools. What is interesting, is that while bloomberg rankings doesn’t rank UGA too far behind Tech (37 vs 48, GT and UGA respectively) is that the UGA academic ranking for UGA is 115 and Tech’s is 41. I imagine a decent amount comes from the selectivity, but 1248 is honestly solid…so it seems that they suffer from much larger classes (Tech does much better here, and in fact does better than Emory in this category). Tech also offers substantially more electives, but that could be in part because of Tech being a 4 year program. Nonetheless, UGA offers less electives than other 2 year programs that are viewed as far better than average. Other metrics that play into the academic rating are number of students participating in internships and number of hours of work done outside of class per week (as reported by students). My guess is honestly that UGA is lacking in one of those 2 areas more so than anything else, because the selectivity isn’t bad and other things are fairly normal to the point where you wouldn’t end up that much lower than their actual rank. It suggests that students perhaps do not pursue internships as aggressively as they should or that they are flat out admitting in surveys that they do not work that hard. Something is up with that category (the other metrics, they do okay in). What is interesting is that UGA students are apparently more satisfied than Tech students, but it could be because that is partially related to the academic environment of the school if they are indeed deserving of that academic ranking. Like on ratemyprofessor, we know that instructors with tougher mindsets are more likely to be punished in likability and that this gets conflated with “quality”.
One thing UGA beats the pants off of Tech and Emory at is “employee opinion”: However, the following statement about this ranking makes me wonder about that: “The more undergraduate business majors an employer hired, the more its ranking points counted for schools…”
So if UGA students are not being hired by the same firms/companies as Tech students (which they aren’t as Tech students are consulting heavy), then they are really not being compared side by side. Tech students are likely working alongside other graduates.