Blog Archive Intimate Class Sizes in the South at Scheller College of Business and Mays Business School

Blog Archive Intimate Class Sizes in the South at Scheller College of Business and Mays Business School The  Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech  may rival MIT Sloan and Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business with respect to its focus on the direct application of Internet technology to global business problems. The school’s rather small (approximately 60â€"80 students each year) and innovation-focused program was nevertheless ranked 28th among full-time MBA programs by  Bloomberg Businessweek  in 2017. Situated in the heart of Technology Square in Midtown Atlanta, Scheller offers students numerous networking and innovation resources within the city’s high-tech business community, including the Advanced Technology Development Center business incubator. In addition, the Enterprise Innovation Institute, or EI2, bills itself as “the nation’s largest and most comprehensive university-based program of business and industry assistance, technology commercialization, and economic development” on its website and  provides students with resources for career options at the intersection of business and technology. As an indicator of the school’s overall strengths in information technology and operations management, technology was the most common pre-MBA industry among the Class of 2018, while operations/production was the most popular pre-MBA functional area of work. Meanwhile, at the  Texas AM University Mays Business School, students follow a full-time, 49-credit MBA curriculum that can be completed in just 16 months (over an 18-month period of August to December) or customized for an extended period of time. Although the core curriculum is very rigid, with foundational management courses spanning the entirety of the program, Mays also offers the option of pursuing certificates and career specializations beyond the 16-month core. What really stands out about the Mays program, however, is its dedication to maintaining a strong sense of community. Similar to Scheller, the relatively small class sizeâ€"the 2016 incoming class, for example, featured 74 studentsâ€"facilitates an intimate classroom setting and personalized attention from faculty and staff at Mays. Share ThisTweet B-Schools Outside the Top 15 Mays Business School Scheller College of Business Blog Archive Intimate Class Sizes in the South at Scheller College of Business and Mays Business School The  Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech   The  Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech  may rival MIT Sloan and Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business with respect to its focus on the direct application of Internet technology to global business problems. The school’s rather small (approximately 60â€"80 students each year) and innovation-focused program was nevertheless ranked 28th among full-time MBA programs by  Bloomberg Businessweek  in 2016. Situated in the heart of Technology Square in Midtown Atlanta, Scheller offers students numerous networking and innovation resources within the city’s high-tech business community, including the Advanced Technology Development Center business incubator. In addition, the Enterprise Innovation Institute, or EI2, bills itself as “the nation’s largest and most comprehensive university-based program of business and industry assistance, technology commercialization, and economic development” on its Web site and  provides students with resources for career options at the intersection of business and technology. As an indicator of the school’s overall strengths in information technology and operations management, technology was the most common pre-MBA industry among the Class of 2018, while operations/production was the most popular pre-MBA functional area of work. Meanwhile, at the Texas AM University Mays Business School, students follow a full-time, 49-credit MBA curriculum that can be completed in just 16 months (over an 18-month period of August to December) or customized for an extended period of time. Although the core curriculum is very rigid, with foundational management courses spanning the entirety of the program, Mays also offers the option of pursuing certificates and career specializations beyond the 16-month core. What really stands out about the Mays program, however, is its dedication to maintaining a strong sense of community. Similar to Scheller, the relatively small class sizeâ€"the 2016 incoming class, for example, featured 74 studentsâ€"facilitates an intimate classroom setting and personalized attention from faculty and staff at Mays. Share ThisTweet Mays Business School Scheller College of Business