Athens, Ga. – The Executive MBA program at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business is ranked as one of the best in the world, according to a new survey by the Financial Times.
In the Times’global ranking for 2010, the Terry EMBA ranked 60th in the world and 23rd in the United States. Among public business schools on the list, the Terry program is a top 10 school.
Terry’s Executive MBA is an 18-month degree program geared toward mid- to senior-level professionals, with weekend classes taught at the college’s Executive Education Center in Buckhead.
The average salary reported by graduates three years after completing the program was $165,042, which ranks 18th among EMBA programs in the United States. That salary figure also represents a 47 percent increase in average alumni salary, based on survey answers provided by graduates of the Terry EMBA program from 2007 who were asked to compare their current compensation with their pre-EMBA salaries.
“The MBA programs that we offer in Atlanta are designed to provide students with personal attention so that they can enhance their careers,” said Robert Sumichrast, dean of the Terry College. “The nearly 50 percent increase in salary measured by the Financial Times is another testament to the quality of the Terry MBA experience.”
Within the ranking, the Terry EMBA program rated 13th among U.S. business schools for a measure the Financial Times calls “aims achieved.” It quantifies the extent to which EMBA graduates reported fulfilling their most important goals for pursuing an MBA degree.
According to the Financial Times, two sets of online surveys were used to compile the results. The first survey was completed by the business schools that met the Times’ criteria for inclusion, and the second was completed by alumni who graduated three years ago.
The information gathered from the business schools includes such criteria as diversity of faculty and students, international reach of the program, languages spoken by students and the productivity of faculty publishing articles in major academic and practitioner journals. The Terry College’s faculty research ranking in the survey was 17th among U.S. business schools.
The Terry Executive MBA program is one of three EMBA programs in Georgia that are ranked in the Financial Times’ top 100. The other two are Emory’s Goizueta Business School (41st in the world, 13th in the U.S.) and Georgia State’s Robinson College of Business (78th in the world, 31st in the U.S.).
To read about the Financial Times’ rankings, see rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/. For more information about the Executive MBA program in the Terry College of Business, go to http://mba.terry.uga.edu/.
