Terry Business School

vince

Accounting/Entrepreneurship/MIS/Real Estate are all listed in top 30 in BusinessWeek. You won't believe how generous the MBA program is, especially to Chinese students. All Chinese MBA graduates found jobs within 3 months in 2004. Excellent and constraint in budget? Try Terry(University of Georgia) MBA

dnianbo

Are you sure?

vince

Classes begin

Aug. 2, 2004

Year program was founded	1950
Institution is	U.S., Public
Business school accreditation: AACSB
Length of program	21 months

Enrollment

Total graduate business students	768
Full-time MBA students	170
Part-time MBA students	269
Distance MBA students	n/a
Executive MBA students	37
PhD program students	89
Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) students	n/a
Total undergraduate business students	2,733
Change in full-time class size in past academic year	0%

STUDENT PROFILE - MOST RECENT ENTERING CLASS

Female students in class	27%
International students 1	31%
Married students	29%
For U.S. schools only:
African American students	6%
Alaskan Native of Pacific Islander American students	2%
Asian American students	4%
Mexican American students	0%
Puerto Rican students	0%
Other Hispanic American students	0%
White (non-Hispanic) students	57%
Multiethnic/Multiracial students	n/a
Not reported	n/a
Other	n/a

Students from the following regions:

Africa	0%
Asia	26%
Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Central Asia	0%
Latin America and the Caribbean	4%
Middle East	0%
North America (Canada: 3% / U.S.: 97%)	70%
Oceania	0%
Western Europe	0%

North American students by region:

Canada	3%
Mid-Atlantic U.S.	6%
Midwest U.S.	0%
Northeast U.S.	3%
South U.S.	74%
Southwest U.S.	3%
U.S. Possessions and territories	0%
West U.S.	11%

(1) Students from countries other than the school's home country.

CLASS TRAITS - MOST RECENT ENTERING CLASS

GMAT Scores - Historical Chart

	2004	2003	2002
Average	663	659	658
Median	670	660	660
Range (middle 80%)	590-730	570-730	600-720

GMAT scores are required as part of the application.


TOEFL Scores
TOEFL scores are required for applicants whose native language is not English.

Average TOEFL score	637
Minimum TOEFL score required	577

Work Experience (months)

Average	56
Range (middle 80%)	8	-	98
New entrants with one year or less of work experience	8%

Student Age (years)

Average	27
Range (middle 80%)	23	-	31

Salary

Average base salary forgone to enter program

$53,667

ADMISSIONS

Application fee (resident)	$62
Application fee (nonresident)	$62

249 people applied to the full-time MBA program in 2004. The school accepted 36% (selectivity) of those applicants, and 55% of admitted applicants (yield) enrolled in the program.

Selectivity/Yield - Historical Chart

	2004	2003	2002
Selectivity	36%	32%	27%
Yield	55%	45%	60%

0% of applicants had applied in prior years, and of those reapplicants 0% were accepted.

The B-school placed 62 applicant(s) on its wait list. 2 wait-listed applicants were admitted to the semester for which they applied.

Applicant Profile:

Female applicants	23%
International applicants 1	55%

Interviews for MBA applicants are:
Recommended

In 2004, the B-school interviewed 27% of its full-time MBA applicants, and 61% of its admitted applicants.

(1) Applicants from countries other than the school's home country.

COSTS, DEADLINES & FINANCIAL AID

COSTS:

Estimated TOTAL (not annual) cost of full-time MBA program (U.S. dollars)

	2004	2003	2002
Resident	$12,592	$11,040	$8,748
Nonresident	$41,364	$17,820	$30,836

Expected monthly rent	$500
Recommended annual budget (Resident) 1	$21,296
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident)	$35,682

2004-2006 DEADLINES:

Application deadline(s)
International applicants:  Apr. 30, 2005

Rolling admissions? Yes

Deadline(s) for scheduling an interview
All applicants:  Apr. 15, 2005

Financial aid deadline(s)
n/a

FINANCIAL AID:

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through a Central financial aid office at the university

n/a of full-time MBAs applied for financial aid for the 2004-2005 academic year. 74% of full-time MBAs received some form of financial aid for the 2004-2005 academic year.

Of those who received financial aid for the 2004-2005 academic year, 47% received institutional scholarships, 63% received assistantships, and n/a received loans.

Average financial aid package for the 2004-2005 academic year (includes scholarships, assistantships, and loans)

$20,500

Scholarships: Based on academic merit
some other criteria


96 full-tuition scholarships were awarded by the school to full-time MBAs for the 2004-2005 academic year.

How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?
All candidates are considered for scholarship

Average scholarship awarded	$2,500
Guaranteed loan offered? 2	No
Maximum amount students can borrow	n/a
Average outstanding loans for 2004 graduates	n/a

Financial aid Web site

(1) Student budget includes tuition fees and living expenses.

(2) Upon admission, any accepted applicant, regardless of nationality, and without the need of a cosigner, is eligible for a loan.

CONTACTS

Dean	P. George Benson
Hired as of	July 1998
Program director	Melvin R. Crask
Admissions director	Anne Cooper

vince

check the information on businessweek.com if you are registered. the ranking the financial aid package and all other you want to know to make yourself belive the truth.

angelzycat

Are you in this school?

I applied for Terry This year.

dnianbo

How about the placement for Mainland Chinese students for 2003?  I heard that it was tough to apply for H-1b as one of my friends who graduated from a Top 50 in California could not find a company to sponsor him.

I think those stats maybe misleading.  If you are in Terry now, could you tell me the average tuition is for Chinese students and which company did they finally go?  Is career office helpful or the majority of the students find the jobs by themselves?  Thanks.

vince

74% of full-time MBAs received some form of financial aid for the 2004-2005 academic year. Of those who received financial aid for the 2004-2005 academic year, 47% received institutional scholarships, 63% received assistantships

from my understading, current placement data means a little to predict the future individual career hunting.  The job market in north america is lifting its head this year and the trend will be more obvious the next year.  Make your own analysis and judgement as every individual is speical when talking about ultimate landing in the states.

angelzycat

The most concerned questions:

1. What do the institutional scholarships and the assistantships mean?

2. Among the Chinese students who went into terry school last year, what percent of them received some kinds of  

    financial aids  can cover the tuition fee?

vince

assistantship covers full tuition and pays you a certain amount of stipend every month, kind like the ph.d program. but the stipend is not that much. you have to work with faculty to receive the assistantship. scholoarship is a generous cash giving away. you don't have any duty under the scholarship. The percentage of Chinese students receiving the assistantship and scholarship is not an absolute reference for current applicants as the financial aids are rewarded only to those excellent and this criterion is a variable decided by the average excellence of all international applicants.

The encouranging news is that from my knowledge no Chinese students paid tuition in the last few years in this program

good luck to those who applied this year.

angelzycat

Ok, Vince, thanks for your message.

I will submit my support materail before Christmas day.

Hope to meet you in terry next year!