The J. Mack Robinson College of Business was ranked amongst the top 25 business schools for its part-time MBA programs in the biennial rankings by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Georgia State’s College of Business is the largest business school in the South, the sixth largest business school in the nation and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. It has over 8,000 students, 200 faculty members, programs on five different continents and about 80,000 alumni.
According to the Robinson website, students ranked the Robinson College of Business with “As” for teaching qualities, the character levels of fellow classmates and curriculum.
The magazine bases its part-time MBA ratings on student surveys, academic qualities and post-MBA outcomes.
The part-time MBA was ranked among the best by Aspen Institute and U.S. News & World Report. The executive MBA is on the Financial Times list of the world’s premier programs.
Toby McChesney, assistant dean of graduate recruiting and student services at Georgia State, thinks the MBA program offered by the J. Mack Robinson College of Business was great for students.
Georgia State offers its MBA program in two different formats: the professional MBA group program, which lasts 24 months and the flexible MBA program, which allows individuals to earn their degrees within a two-to-five-year timespan.
According to an analysis of Standard & Poor’s data provided on Bloomberg’s website, the Robinson College of Business has produced more top Georgia executives with graduate degrees when compared to other schools in the Southeast.
Robinson annually surveys its graduating classes from December, May and August about their career statuses zero to six months after graduation. The following salary results were reported in 2012:
This 2012 survey also reported an average of 26 percent post-degree salary increase for all graduate students.
David Olszesky is a senior marketing major with a minor in psychology and a senior resident assistant in Piedmont North B-Hall.
When he first heard the news about Robinson being ranked within the nation’s top 25 and saw the statistical salary information provided on the website he said, “It makes me feel more secure about my future, because I feel as if I am more likely to get a job once I graduate if I am coming from a prestigious business university.”
The application to apply to Robinson for the fall 2014 is currently open. Students considering the option of joining the Robinson community should take the following things into consideration.
Freshman students who have never been enrolled in a regionally-accredited college or university before are only eligible to be a part of the Robinson College of Business if they have a GPA of a 3.2 and above, an SAT score of 970 and above or a composite ACT score of 21 and above.
Transfer students considering Robinson must have a 2.5 GPA and have completed 30 transferable semester credit hours or 45 quarter-hours of college-level academic coursework. If said transfer students have fewer than 30 transferable credit hours, they must meet all of the freshman requirements.
International transfer and freshman students must submit a completed application along with a $60 non-refundable application fee, as well as proof of English proficiency, transcripts, ACT and SAT scores, photocopies of immigration documents and submit the international applicant immigration form.
If current Georgia State students are considering Robinson, they must fill out a change of major/college form and send the request to Robinson Office of Undergraduate Academic Assistance.
