BlogToBoom: Goizueta Business School MBA Program, Emory University

Goizueta provides a superior education in a highly engaged and close-knit community, featuring a distinctive and nationally-recognized approach to leadership development and access to many of the world's most recognizable names in business, located just minutes away from campus. The combination provides unique advantages that are unmatched by any other Business School.

Globally Recognized Faculty

Goizueta faculty members are thought leaders who share their knowledge, extensive business acumen, industry insights, and expert points of view in a rigorous academic environment. They publish in the top journals, have taught at the finest MBA programs around the world and earned their graduate degrees from the most prestigious universities. As a result, they bring both rich intellectual depth as well as highly pragmatic methodologies to the courses they teach.

A distinctive feature of Goizueta is that students get to know their professors personally. For most students, faculty become mentors and friends who continue to add insights and lifelong professional value that extends far beyond the classroom.

Intimate & Engaged Community

Goizueta offers the opportunity to study and learn within a tightly knit academic community with small class sizes ranging from 30-65 students. Our boutique setting fosters an environment in which a great deal of learning and professional development occurs through peer interaction. In this setting, every voice is heard, every accomplishment matters, and every single student has the ability to have a profound impact on the organization.

World-class Leadership Development

Goizueta develops leaders through a holistic approach that combines the academic foundation acquired in the business curriculum with a broad range of opportunities for personal maturation and professional growth. Goizueta’s model for building level-appropriate leadership competencies endows individuals with the knowledge, insights, and abilities to make significant positive contributions to the organizations and societies they serve.

Emory’s Vast Resources

Goizueta students are part of Emory University, one of the finest institutes of higher learning in the world. Founded in 1836, Emory is a top twenty national research university that, in addition to being recognized for its outstanding professional schools, is known for its liberal arts college and its superior health care system. In addition to taking advantage the business school's state-of-the-art facilities and resources – Goizueta students have access to almost 3000 faculty members, 2.7 million volumes in the libraries and a worldwide network of affiliated institutions such as The Carter Center, EmTech Biosciences, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Atlanta’s Opportunities

Nestled within the tree-lined residential campus of Emory University, Goizueta lies just a few miles from the heart of downtown Atlanta. With a population of more than 4.8 million people and the world's busiest airport at its disposal, Atlanta boasts the third-highest number of Fortune 500 corporate headquarters. The city attracts three-fourths of the Fortune 100O with a .thriving entrepreneurial and business climate that features names ranging from multinational corporations such as The Home Depot, The Coca-Cola Company and UPS to the vast array of small startup ventures found in our technology corridor.

Positive Impact on Society

Goizueta is dedicated to educating principled leaders. We recognize that there are many business, community and social issues that our capabilities and resources can uniquely address. It is our responsibility as an institution to use our collective gifts to achieve not only success, but also significance. As individuals we are committed to the organizations in which we participate, the populations we serve, the communities in which we operate, and to society as a whole.