Goizueta Business School

What Is Goizueta Business School?

Goizueta Business School is the business school at Emory University, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1919, the school offers both undergraduate and graduate programs.

The Goizueta Business School is well-known for its focus on providing practical work experience and for having a close-knit student community. In recent years, the school's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program has shown some of the strongest job-placement statistics among American business schools: 97% of 2019’s full-time MBA cohort received job offers within three months of graduation.

In 2019, the Goizueta Business School’s full-time MBA program was rated as the 20th-best program in the United States by the Financial Times. It received similar ratings from The Economist and U.S. News: both these publications rated it as the country’s 21st-best program. Forbes and Business Week gave it similar ratings, placing the school in 22nd and 23rd place, respectively. 

Overview of Goizueta Business School

Previously, Goizueta Business School operated within the existing course structure of Emory University. The school received its current name in 1994, following a $10 million gift by the former CEO of Coca-Cola (KO), Roberto Goizueta. Today, Goizueta Business School offers undergraduate studies in core business subjects such as accounting, finance, and marketing, as well as additional specializations in business analytics, entrepreneurship, and international business.

At the graduate level, Goizueta Business School offers a range of MBA and postgraduate programs. In addition to their full-time MBA program that can be completed in either one or two years, the school also offers a variety of MBA programs designed for students who wish to study on a part-time basis while continuing to work in their careers. This includes the evening MBA and executive MBA programs, as well as a modular executive MBA program that combines in-person instruction with online modules for added flexibility. 

Goizueta Business School’s reputation for excellence in post-graduation job placement is almost as strong for their undergraduate cohorts as it is for their full-time MBA graduates. The school’s undergraduate class of 2019 had a 95% employment rate within three months of graduation. This is likely due in part to the significant role of hands-on career training in the undergraduate program, with 100% of the class of 2019 having received coaching and professional development support during their undergraduate studies.

Graduates of Goizueta Business School

With an annual tuition of roughly $60,000, graduates of Goizueta Business School’s two-year MBA program had an average starting salary of nearly $130,000 in 2019 and 97% of graduates received their job offers within three months of graduation. In recent years, these graduates of Goizueta Business School have found employment primarily in the management consulting sector, which nearly 50% of graduates in 2019 pursued.

The popularity of consulting may be due to the relatively high salaries offered in that sector, which averaged at $145,000. The next most popular sectors were financial services and technology, which represented about 30% of the class on a combined basis, and which offered average salaries of roughly $120,000.