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TERRY COLLEGE of BUSINESS - MBA

Founded in 1912, Terry College of Business is the oldest business school in Georgia and one of the oldest in the United States. Specializing in risk management/insurance and real estate, the school, recently announced the replacement of its evening MBA program with an exhilarating and exciting new course – a professional MBA program. Terry College has proposed to accelerate the schedule and focus on personal leadership development. The fully-equipped teaching facilities in Atlanta, Griffin and Gwinnet County are in addition to the invigorating Athens campus right in the heart of the Mediterranean.  The Insurance/Risk Management department is ranked as second in the United States while Real Estate occupies #3. Labeled as a “Best Buy” program by The Financial Times of London, it is undoubtedly, one of the best in the world.

 

The Curriculum-

 

The full time Masters in Business Administration curriculum abides by the traditional business school model in which the first year is usually fraught with essential classes like developing leadership skills, accounting , economics, business statistics, management information systems to name a few. Minimum requirement for completing the first year include 25.5 credit hours of the given curriculum in addition to 3 credit hours of elective subjects. Focus on leadership skills development is what makes a MBA degree from Terry College unique.

 

In the second year, a student is free to focus on his or her specialty area. Students are provided a choice of 12 elective subjects such as Entrepreneurship, Real Estate, Risk management and Insurance, Marketing Management and Investments. The “tips and tricks” provided in the MBA P.L.U.S seminars, which detail the nitty-gritty aspects of being an excellent manager, are simply overwhelming. Every elective has a state of art institute dedicated to it which provides students with a unique pedagogical experience.

 

In addition to the two mainstream programs, Terry College, in association with UGA Law School provides a powerful combination of a law degree and advanced business knowledge. Usually, the first year is spent in law school and the second year is for the mainstream coursework of the MBA program. For the final two years, students are jointly enrolled in both institutes to complete the dual degree.

 

Admission pre-requisites and selection criteria-

 

A very selective admission procedure requires you to create a MyTerry MBA Account online. Once the online registration is completed, you will need to fill in the online application. A complete application will also include at least two letters of recommendation and also the official documents from each educational institute attended. Optionally, you can request a brochure and attend an “Information Session”.  Applicants are also required to submit their GMAT scores which should not be more than 5 years old. TOEFL or IELTS scores, if applicable, can be submitted. After a preliminary round of reviews of applications, students are invited for an evaluate interview to complete the admission procedure. Additional requirements include a work experience of minimum of two years after graduation.

 

Though any knowledge of coursework is not a prerequisite, exceptional mathematical skills and computer proficiency are required.

 

The fee-structure (tuition fees) for the academic year 2009-2010 is $61520 for the Two-year program and $46140 for the eleven month program. Roughly a fourth of full-time MBA students are remunerated with scholarships which range from $500-$12500. Additional fees includes a PreMBA Coursework fee of $275 and a one-time fee of $500 for the MBA program seat.

Placement stats and recruiting companies –Class of 2008

Top Full-Time Recruiters
   
 

Accenture
     AOL Wireless

     Bank of America

     Coca-Cola

     Daimler Chrysler

     Energy Consulting Group, LLC

     HSBC North America

     Johnson and Johnson

     Nissan

     Oracle
 

    Siemens
 

     Ernst & Young
 

     InterContinental Hotels Group
 

     IBM
 

     FedEx
 

     Intel
 

     Discover Financial Services
 

     Sky West Air.
 

     Waffle House

 

Terry College Advantage-

 

World class MBA program: - Terry College provides it’s students with an exceptional tutelage that is acclaimed as one of the best in the United States.

 

Personal Executive Coaching: - Terry’s special effort in procuring some of the best MBA coaches is commendable. At Terry, personal coaches, who are thorough professionals working in Atlanta, provide invaluable assistance to the students and help them build on their strengths.

 

Study Abroad Programs: - In addition to Terry’s Athens campus, MBA students enjoy trips to various foreign countries for completion of their 3-credit course during the Spring Break. Exchange programs for Bocconi University in Italy and Universit? Jean-Moulin in France are also available.

 

JD/MBA Joint Degree: - Terry’s Joint Degree program offers the students a unique opportunity to reduce the time taken for completion of each degree from five to four years.

 

MBA P.L.U.S: - Terry’s MBA P.L.U.S feature of the program is an exhilarating experience for students who want to focus on building their ‘soft skills’ such as Communication, Team building, Motivational skills and problem-solving skills. Terry’s special emphasis on the ‘soft skills’ of the students are essential in building awareness on approach to work

The Oxford SAID Business School

About the School

 

The school established in the year 1996 is considered to be one of the Europe’s youngest business schools; but grown at so fast a pace to be placed in the world’s top business schools today. The Oxford SAID business school is integrated into the eminent and prestigious Oxford University and imbibes its strengths in subjects like anthropology, economics, international relations, law, politics, and psychology. The Business Week, November 2008 issue put the school among the top 10 business schools outside the USA.

 

Faculty and Research

 

The faculty is the most prominent and highly distinguished; genuinely engrossed with ground-breaking research involving key management issues in constant rapport with the better academic community and eminent business persons. The faculty’s ability to research and break new grounds in areas like: accounting; finance; marketing; organisational behaviour; strategy, entrepreneurship and international business; operations management; and the management of science and technology; have earned laurels the world over.

 

The school has the following world-class research centers that “mirror the knowledge-intensive end of a creative economy”:

•    Complex Agent-based Dynamic Networks (CABDyN)
•    The BT Centre for Major Programme Management
•    The Centre for Professional Service Firms
•    Institute for Science, Innovation and Society
•    The Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation 
•    The Oxford Financial Research Centre
•    The Oxford Institute for Employee Relations
•    The Oxford Institute of Retail Management
•    The Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
•    The Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
•    The Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
•    The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

 

Admission Requirements & Selection Criteria

•    Proficiency in English - Minimum score on an English language proficiency like: IELTS, TOEFL Computer based, TOEFL Internet Based Test, TOEFL Paper-based Test.
•    Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 600.
•    GMAT Score: Mean : 675, Median: 680
•    Resume/Work Experience: Required
•    Application Essays: Required
•    Interviews: Required
•    Recommendations: Required
•    Undergraduate Transcriptts: Required

 

The Curriculum

 

BA in Economics and Management

•    Top-ranking Economics and Management undergraduate degree program.
•    A deep understanding of economics and management principles.
•    Develop skill in arguments and critiquing evidence, verbal and written communication, and interpersonal relations.

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate/baem/

 

The Oxford Diploma in Financial Strategy

•    A masters-level postgraduate qualification designed for senior finance professionals.
•    Comprises four intensive short modules aided by meticulous teaching of the Oxford professors.
•    At the end participants will be experts in strategic management, finance and management control systems.

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/diploma/

 

The Oxford Diploma in Organizational Leadership

•    Innovatively designed to offer senior executives a strategic overview of management. 
•    The program shall place high emphasis on importance of leadership during hardship.
•    It aims to bridge "the experiential gap" among those executives who never faced bad times as a leader.

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/execed/leadership/dol/

The Oxford Diploma in Strategy and Innovation

•    Readies for taking efficient tactical decisions for global business environment.
•    Comprises of four modules: strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, international business and strategy execution; covered within an year

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/execed/strategy/innovation/

 

DPhil Program

 

Finance

•    With an abundance of research faculty in finance, including economics, law and mathematics this program is “most mathematically technical to the most policy relevant”.

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/DFE/

Management

•    Provides a chance to work closely with internationally renowned faculty.
•    A full-time program of 3 years duration.
•    Facilitates original doctoral research with high academic rigor.

Executive MBA

•    A twenty one month part-time program, efficient and modular combined with e-learning
•    Enables participants to apply learning and project work directly to their organisations, enhancing both corporate and individual capabilities.
•    Comprising sixteen week-long modules engross its participants with values that help in success for nations, organisations and individuals.

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/EMBA/

MBA

•    Ranked among the top 20 global MBA programs by the Financial Times
•    World class faculty in state-of-the art center poised to deliver ultimate business individuals as outcome.

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/mba/

Executive Short Courses

•    These programs help to build a long-term partnership towards enhanced development, empowerment and support at individual as well as organisational levels.
•    Comprises: Leadership programs, Finance Programs, Strategy and change programs, Custom programs

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/execed/

 

MEng-Engineering, Economics and Management

 

Introduction

•    This is a four year engineering degree program
•    Provides an in-depth knowledge in engineering and understanding of the principles of management and economics.

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/engineering/ABOUT+THE+PROGRAMME.htm

 

MEng-Materials, Economics and Management

•    This is a four year program in materials science
•    Produces graduates with a comprehensive understanding in materials science and management & economics.

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/materials/About+the+programme.htm

 

M.Sc in Financial Economics

•    Most sought after in the realm of financial world, this is a full-time nine-month program that trains its participants in tools of financial economics.
•    Armed with a rigorous academic core and tailored practical application its graduates are absorbed in investment banks, financial consultancies, and government finance ministries.
•    The program lays emphasis in establishing links between financial economics theories and key finance activities.

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/MFE/Why+the+Oxford+MFE.htm

 

Masters in Law and Finance

•    This is a relatively a full-time nine-month novel degree program.
•    Framed exclusively for those with a legal background seeking an advanced career in Corporate Law, Corporate Finance or Regulation.

 

For more details please refer: (https://law.nsms.ox.ac.uk/mlf/)

 

Masters in Public Policy

•    This program is in the evolving process and opinions from the interested are sought over the content of the course.
 

For more details please refer: https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/news/news/public_policy_course
M.Sc in Management Research
 

•    Designed to lay a foundation in management theories and research methodologies; culminating in a 15,000 word dissertation.

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/msc-management/About+the+programme.htm

 

M.Sc in Major Programme Management

•    Managerial strata, for which this program is basically designed, will at the end, come out with “intellectual and research skills necessary to further their career in programme management, while delivering real value to sponsoring organizations”.
•    This is a two-year part-time program comprising of eight 4/5 day modules without much interruption to their working lives.

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/MPM/Why.htm

 

Executive Programs

•    The Oxford Executive programs are designed to “create insight, inspiration and impact across key development areas for organisations and senior executives”.

=> Diploma in Organisational Leadership
=> The Oxford Private Equity Programme
=> The Oxford Finance For Executives Programme
=> The Oxford International Investment Programme
=> The Oxford High Performance Leadership Programme
=> The Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme
=> The Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme
=> The Oxford Diploma in Strategy and Innovation
=> The Oxford Sustainability Programme
=> The Oxford-HKU Senior Executive Programme in Corporate Leadership
=> The Oxford Strategic Pricing Programme
=> The Oxford Programme on Negotiation
=> The Oxford Scenarios Programme
=> The Oxford Diploma in Financial Strategy
=> What Next? Program
=> Consulting and Coaching for Change
=> Customised Programmes

 

For more details please refer: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/execed/brochures/

 

Corporate Recruitment

The Recruitment Facts

•    90% of MBAs are hired within three months of graduating from the school
•    Oxford’s MBA graduates of 2007 have achieved excellent employment results, with 90% of those looking for jobs receiving at least one offer of employment within three months of completing the programme.
•    Top employers include BT, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Macquarie Bank, McKinsey & Company, and SMBC.
•    The majority of graduates were employed in Finance and Banking: 38%; Diversified Industry 37%;
•    New Business Ventures 5%  of graduates
•    Average post-MBA annual salaries: £65,000
•    On campus recruiting 36%
•    Recruitment by Networking 25%
•    More than 150 companies annually recruit on campus at the University of Oxford.
•    Top Finance and Banking Recruiters - Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, PricewaterhouseCoopers
•    Top Management Consulting Recruiters - McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, Booz Allen & Hamilton
•    Top Diversified Industry Recruiters - Google, Shell, Cisco Systems



 

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