“At Goizueta Business School we pride ourselves on preparing principled leaders to positively impact business and society,” said Interim Dean Karen Sedatole. “As we celebrate our largest BBA program in our school’s history, we continue to attract and retain the most talented students, faculty, and staff, convening the brightest minds to solve the biggest problems with integrity, ingenuity, and grit.”

Delivering on its promise to provide world-class educational experiences and opportunities, Goizueta graduates continue to find success upon completion of their programs.

Goizueta is proud to report that 97 percent of 2021 BBA graduates received, and 96 percent accepted employment offers within three months of graduating. 

In addition to unprecedented full-time employment rates, Goizueta BBA graduates noted some of the highest salaries in the school’s history. Graduates reported an average adjusted salary of $75,794.

The Poets & Quants ranking is based on admissions standards, academic experience, and employment outcomes.

“Alumni responses carry a large weight in this ranking and provide us with important insights about the components of the BBA experience they most value,” said Andrea Hershatter, senior associate dean of undergraduate education. “Alumni reflections derived from previous ranking iterations played an important role in laying the foundations of the new BBA curriculum that will roll out in Spring 2023. Beyond enhancements to academic content, the revised curriculum provides attributes our BBA graduates seek; more freedom to choose academic pathways, additional options to build community and engage in transformational experiences, and augmented opportunities to acquire value-added personal and professional competencies.”

About Emory University’s Goizueta Business School

Business education has been an integral part of Emory University’s identity since 1919. That kind of longevity and significance does not come without a culture built on success and service. Emory University’s Goizueta Business School offers a unique, community-oriented environment paired with the academic prestige and rigor of a major research institution. Goizueta develops business leaders of today and tomorrow with an undergraduate degree program, a Two-Year Full-Time MBA, a One-Year MBA, an Evening MBA, an Executive MBA, an MS in Business Analytics, a Master of Analytical Finance, a Doctoral degree, and a portfolio of non-degree Emory Executive Education courses. Together, the Goizueta community strives to solve the world’s most pressing business problems. The school is named for the late Roberto C. Goizueta, former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company.

For more information, visit goizueta.emory.edu.

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Goizueta Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Provide Insight into Entrepreneurship, Early-Stage Investing, and Innovation

Goizueta’s 2021-23 Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) cohort are poised to help students translate vision into impact. The EiR program is housed within The Roberto C. Goizueta Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, launched in 2021 to foster entrepreneurship and innovation by offering vital support in three areas: entrepreneurship, early-stage investing, and innovation.

The EiR program plays a vital role in the Center’s efforts to support entrepreneurship, early-stage investing, and innovation. Since the creation of the program in 2017, Goizueta has selected EiRs whose backgrounds and experiences align with these priorities. Read the complete article here.

From Bean to Cup: Goizueta Balances the Scale of Financial Equity for Female Coffee Farmers

The Roberto C. Goizueta Business & Society Institute’s Grounds for Empowerment (GFE) program seeks to balance the scales in one historically imbalanced industry: coffee. “From a business school perspective, coffee represents a very important problem,” said Giselle Barrera 15MBA, GFE’s program manager for Latin America. “It’s a multibillion-dollar market where you’re not looking for consumers. You don’t find coffee; coffee finds you. And yet, if you look at the value chain, the revenue is not distributed equally.” Read the complete article here.

Full-Time MBA Ranks 18th in Nation by Businessweek 

In the recently released Bloomberg Businessweek 2021-22 Best B-schools MBA ranking, the Full-Time, Two-Year MBA at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School is ranked 18^th in the nation. The ranking evaluates Full-Time MBA programs on five key categories including compensation, networking, learning, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The diversity category is a new measure added in this year’s methodology and measures MBA programs based on race, ethnicity, and gender in their classes. Read the complete article.

Erin Lightfoot 21MBA On the Forefront of Vaccinating Georgians

Social Enterprise Fellow Erin Lightfoot 21MBA has served as a mass vaccination site operations manager at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta. The largest mass vaccination site in the southeast, Mercedes-Benz crossed the 250,000-vaccination milestone on April 30th. “It’s been a huge, orchestra-like production,” Lightfoot explained. “Multiple teams have come together to bring this whole initiative to life.” Read the complete article here.

Corporate Social Responsibility Builds Investor Trust

Goizueta faculty research delves deep into critical issues for business leaders around the world. In her latest research, Assistant Professor of Accounting Suhas A. Sridharan notes, “Earnings announcements are among the most salient and recurring areas of corporate disclosure, and managers and investors pay very close attention to them.”  She goes on to say, “We know that these types of announcements are lengthy and dense; they take time to process. So, the intuition here is that when your firm plants a flag on responsibility and accountability, investors are more likely to take your disclosures at face value – they’re more likely to trust what you’re saying.” Read the complete article.

Goizueta MBA Students Deliver Impact to Mentoring Program for Rural Georgia Teens

The Goizueta IMPACT program puts theory into practice to build career readiness. In the process, all MBA students are offered the opportunity to affect countless lives by sharing forward-looking expertise and feedback with community organizations, corporations, and nonprofits. To date, this unique MBA experiential learning program has provided action plans for local, national, and international organizations.

About 75 miles east of Goizueta Business School, Dave Thillen began realizing in 2020 that his deeply rooted, effective, volunteer mentoring program could benefit from professional consulting. For decades he had loved the frontline work of supporting hundreds of rural teenagers to set individualized life goals and begin to achieve them. Read the complete article here.

New SPAC IPOs Inspire Happy Investors to Sign Blank Checks

The current SPAC frenzy has led to predictions that the SPAC market is a bubble ready to burst, but Klaas Baks, professor in the practice of finance and executive director, Emory Center for Alternative Investments, doesn’t see it that way. He points to financial practices such as leveraged buyouts and securitization, both considered suspect in their heyday, but that are mainstream today. “We’re in the first inning of SPACs,” said Baks. Read the complete article here.

A Million-Dollar Student-Run Venture Capital Fund Focused on Empowering Underrepresented Founders

Venture capital shaped Miguel Vergara 22MBA’s path to Goizueta Business School’s full-time MBA program, where he is eager to participate in a new venture fund run by himself and other students. These students are carrying on the legacy of recent MBA graduates who sought to take action against systemic racial inequalities in business. The result is the Peachtree Minority Venture Fund of The Roberto C. Goizueta Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, the first student-run fund in the United States focused on empowering underrepresented founders. Read the complete article here.

Goizueta Faculty Recognized with Awards for Excellence, Dedication over Past Year

Each year, Goizueta Business School honors faculty members for their dedication to and leadership in academic excellence in teaching, content development, experiential learning, scholarly inquisition, and commitment. We are proud to present this year’s 14 recipients.

Several Goizueta faculty were recently recognized by Emory University for their accomplishments over the past year, including Assistant Professor in the Practice of Accounting Allison Kays and Associate Professor in the Practice of Marketing Omar Rodríguez-Vilá. Read the complete article here.

Mercedes-Benz USA Gains Goizueta Student Gen Z Insight in Business Communication Strategy Case Competition

Each year, BBA students at Goizueta participate in the “BComm” course designed to strengthen their communications techniques and introduce them to the skills required to prepare for and deliver client presentations.

The defining moment of the BBA program’s Business Communication Strategy or “BComm” course is the end-of-semester Professional Communications Strategy Case Competition. This past spring, executives from Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) asked three-dozen BComm student teams how they would introduce Mercedes-EQA, the automaker’s new, all-electric crossover SUV, to Gen Z consumers (those born between 1995 and 2010). Read the complete article here.

Goizueta Celebrates 2021 Undergraduate and MBA Business Grads for Record-Breaking Employment Rates, Top Salaries

With principled leadership in the forefront, Goizueta is proud to report that 97 percent of 2021 BBA graduates received, and 96 percent accepted employment offers within three months of graduating. Read the complete article here. Touting the best employment rates in the school’s history, Goizueta full-time MBA graduates entered the job market in full force. Within three months of graduating, 99 percent of students received and accepted offers for a full-time job. Furthermore, at graduation, 91 percent of the class received a full-time offer, representing an 8 percent increase over the previous year. Read the complete article here.

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Graduates Dominate in Consulting, Tech, and Financial Services

Goizueta 2021 full-time MBA graduates celebrated record highs for employment rates and salaries, bringing their skills and expertise into new industries and markets across the world. “We are so proud of our 2021 graduates and can’t wait to see all the ways these principled leaders impact business and society,” said Maureen Manion-Leone, associate dean and executive director of Goizueta Business School’s Graduate Career Management Center.

“The Goizueta MBA is the only top-ranked MBA offering world-class academics and small-by-design classes delivered in a dynamic, global city,” she adds. “We are thrilled to continue to see our program pay off in lucrative, fulfilling careers for our graduates.”

Graduates Employed at Record-Breaking Numbers and Highest Salaries

Touting the best employment rates in the school’s history, Goizueta full-time MBA graduates entered the job market in full force. Within three months of graduating, 99 percent of students received and accepted offers for a full-time job. Furthermore, at graduation, 91 percent of the class received a full-time offer, representing an 8 percent increase over the previous year.  

In addition to unprecedented employment rates, Goizueta MBA graduates garnered the highest salaries in the school’s history. Graduates reported an average mean salary of $134,700, an increase of nearly $14,000 over the past four years. The class saw a bump in signing bonuses as well, on average securing $29,151 in 2021 vs. $28,076 in 2020.

MBA Graduates Increase Leadership in Consulting, Financial Services, and Tech

While Goizueta MBA graduates continue to lead across industries, the class realized sizable bumps in several important industries, including consulting, financial services, and technology.

Representing the largest industry, 37 percent of 2021 graduates entered consulting, a three percent increase over 2021, with the class of 2021 graduates entering this industry securing a mean salary of $148,007.

Coming in second, graduates entered financial services in high numbers with 23 percent of graduates targeting this field – a 5 percent bump over the previous year.

Capitalizing on the momentum of the tech industry, graduates also seized leadership roles within this industry, representing 20 percent of the class, a 4 percent increase over the prior year.

MBA Graduates Enter Top Global Companies; Expand Presence in West, South, and Northeast

Goizueta Full-Time MBA graduates continue to be sought after across industries, with the top consulting firms (Bain, BCG, McKinsey, and Deloitte), big-name tech firms (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Salesforce), and financial services giants (Bank of America, JP Morgan, Capital One, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Truist, and Wells Fargo) hiring Goizueta graduates.

With 75% of Fortune 1000 firms having a presence in Atlanta paired with its low cost of living, most Goizueta graduates continue to choose the South (53%) over other regions, taking advantage of its thriving entrepreneurial landscape and hot tech industry. However, Goizueta continues to see growth in other regions as well with 30% of graduates accepting jobs in the Northeast and on the West Coast.

Read the complete report on full-time one-year MBA career and employment data here.

Read the complete report on full-time two-year MBA career and employment data here.

Read the complete report on full-time two-year MBA career internships here.

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Goizueta Business School’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program released its employment report for the class of 2018, the first graduating class of the program. One hundred percent of graduates were employed within six months.

“To launch a program with 37 students in a highly rigorous quantitative field at a school that’s better known for strategy and finance and have 100 percent placement says that the Goizueta community values innovation and isn’t afraid to take risk,” said Ramnath Chellappa, associate dean and academic director of the MSBA program and associate professor of information systems and operations at Goizueta.

Chellappa attributes the success of the program to the unique manner in which it is run, with everyone involved in the input and the output. “We’re careful in who we select and are faithful to finding individuals who have the capacity to speak the languages of business, data and technology. When you do proper selection, have great curriculum taught by world-class faculty, infused with high-quality experiential learning through a real-world capstone project, the structure is there for outstanding placement,” Chellappa said.

Equally important are co-curricular activities designed specifically for students’ professional development, according to Chellappa. “It’s important that each MSBA student enter the workplace with all the polish that is Goizueta and find their fit in the business data science ecosystem.”

Lancy Mao 18MSBA was hired as an analyst for American Airlines after graduating from the program. Mao had a strong interest in data and had taken several analytics-related internships while studying for her undergraduate degree, so she chose to pursue an MSBA at Goizueta to equip herself with advanced knowledge and techniques. Although the American Airlines position ultimately relocated her to Texas, Mao was attracted to Atlanta for graduate studies because of its large market of job opportunities.

Mao said the position with American Airlines is a great fit for her, not only because of her passion for traveling but because it requires solid analytic skills and cross-functional communication. “I can really utilize the knowledge I gained [in the MSBA program] as well as continue to learn. And I can influence decision-making with data analytics in this position, which gives me a great sense of accomplishment,” Mao said.

Success stories like Mao’s are no accident. “We are intentional and systematic with every aspect of our program,” said Ginger Baxter, senior director of career services and employer relations for the MSBA program.

According to Baxter, ensuring the students have a transformative experience during the program sometimes means holding them back from applying for jobs. “I realize this might be counterintuitive for the career services lead to say, yet until our students can speak the languages of business, data and technology and articulate the business data science value proposition, we don’t want them on the market.”

Robin Liu 18MSBA did not spend much time on the job market after completing the program: He was hired by Georgia-Pacific as a full-time advanced analyst with their Decision Analytics team shortly after taking an internship with the company. Liu explained that he was immediately able to deliver on projects and received positive feedback from clients.

“The MSBA program prepared me very well in modeling, problem solving and presentation skills,” Liu said. “These are the essential skills our Decision Analytics team was looking for, and I couldn’t have performed well without any one of them.”

As the MSBA program gains in reputation, Chellappa noted that students will arrive with broader expectations. This means the program will need to continue to innovate and grow its footprint. “It’s true, we placed students in every geographic region of the country, and to reach more high-tech employers, we will be embarking on a West Coast trek with 19 members from our MSBA Class of 2019. They will pioneer our Silicon Valley strategy, much in the same way that MSBA 2018 pioneered our startup strategy,” Chellappa said.

Baxter affirmed the continued need to optimize the program. “Since we’re numbers people, we track our professional and career development activities closely to determine which ones add the most value and possibly shorten the hiring timeline,” she said.

For Baxter, the employment rate is a testament to Goizueta’s community, including students, staff and alumni. “It’s also a direct result of our students understanding that the whole is stronger than the sum of our parts. We all win if every student finds her fit. Working cooperatively and pulling each other up was the only way we achieved the 100% benchmark in our inaugural year. Our students believed in us, and we believed in them. We lived our MSBA guiding principles of curiosity, grit and humility daily — sometimes hourly — as we felt our students’ pain when an employer didn’t see their brilliance, and we celebrated minutes later when another employer did!”

Learn more about the MSBA program at https://goizueta.emory.edu/degree/msba/index.html

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For the third-straight year, at least 98 percent of Goizueta graduates received job offers within 90 days of graduation. This according to the recently-released employment report created by the school’s Career Management Center.

Goizueta’s CMC partners with students early in the course of their MBA experience, starting even before they arrive on campus. This, combined with a program that allows students to complete core classes in the first semester, allows for maximum opportunity to tailor progress toward post-graduation goals.

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As reported by Poets & Quants, “For the second consecutive year, Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business boasted the best MBA placement record of any U.S. business school in the Top 30, with 98.1% of the Class of 2013 reporting job offers three months after graduation.”

“Our career success is due, in large part, to our high caliber student population. We are pleased that Goizueta MBAs continue to be sought after by the world’s best companies,” says Wendy Tsung, associate dean & executive director of Goizueta’s MBA Career Management Center (CMC).

Goizueta’s CMC partners with students early in the course of their MBA experience, starting even before they arrive on campus. The team is staffed by a director, four full-time career coaches, and two employer relations staffers, an office manager and recruiting coordinator. Their dedication to offer students access to top companies is matched by a commitment to prepare students for every stage of the job search process.

“Since the school revamped its curriculum so that the core is taught in the first semester, students with full-time offers at the end of their internships have more than doubled. The early start, the one-semester core, the early outreach by the career staff along with their close follow-up has made a huge difference in the school’s outcomes,” reports Poets & Quants.

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The Career Management Center at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School announced employment numbers for the recently-graduated MBA Class of 2011 this week.

The results show continued strength in a tough job market.

“We are proud to share that our FTMBA students achieved extraordinary success with career opportunities this year, with 85 percent of the Class of 2011 receiving job offers by graduation,” said Wendy Tsung, associate dean and executive director of MBA Career Service. “Additionally, 95 percent of graduates received offers within three months of graduation.

“These figures place us among the best in the country for MBA career employment and are a testament to our commitment of educating, supporting and empowering our students to succeed.”

In 2010, 93 percent of students received offers within three months of graduation.  The average base salary also increased by 9 percent to $100,682 per year in 2011.

Data is in compliance with the MBA Career Services Council board requirements for dissemination and publication to various ranking surveys. A detailed employment report is expected in the coming weeks and will be posted on the Goizueta website.

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