Evening MBA

The Terry Evening MBA Program at a Glance

Degree Granted: Master of Business Administration
Accreditation: AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
Location: Gwinnett - Classes held at UGA at Gwinnett Facility
Buckhead - Classes held at Terry's Executive Education Center
Length of Program: Program is 48 credit hours and typically takes 32 months to complete. (assuming two courses per semester for eight consecutive semesters).
Start Date: We enroll new students each fall. We do not have a spring intake.
Term Length: Fall and spring semesters are 15 weeks each.
Summer semester is a modified version of the University's calendar to accommodate Evening students and is approximately 10 weeks.
Credits/Term: Most students take 6 credits/semester
Class Schedule: Fall and spring: mostly 6 PM - 9 PM
Summer: 6 PM-10PM
Course Meetings: Each course typically meets one night each week. However, there may be an occasional variation to meeting times.
Class Size: Limited to 40-50 students per course
Outside Classroom Time: Expect to spend 2-3 hours per week outside of class for each hour spent in class. Time may vary depending on student's background, amount of teamwork required, etc.
Tuition (AY 2008-09): Gwinnett Location:
$654 per credit hour for in-state residents
$1308 per credit hour out-of-state residents

Buckhead Location:
$709 per credit hour for in-state residents
$1358 per credit hour for out-of-state residents
Application Deadlines:
Fall
US Citizens June 30
Non US Citizens Apr 15
Information Sessions: We have many regularly scheduled information sessions. Read more information on attending an information session. Sign up and get answers to all your questions!
Rankings: Business Week ranked the Terry College's MBA program in the second tier of the Top 50 B-schools (31-50), called "The Next 20" (2000). The biennial rankings are based on a survey of graduates and corporate recruiters.

US News & World Report ranked the Terry College's MBA program 34th among over 340 accredited MBA programs in the United States (2002). Among public universities, the MBA program ranked 13th overall and third among public programs in the Southeast (Virginia #1 and UNC-CH #2).

Forbes magazine judged the Terry MBA program to have the 19th biggest return on investment among the nation's top regional business schools (2001). The Forbes formula defined regional schools as those where the cost was under $95,000 for two years of tuition and two years of foregone salary.

Computerworld placed the Terry College in the Top 25 of its analysis of the "Top Techno-MBA Programs" (2001).

The Financial Times of London ranked the Terry College's MBA program 73rd among global MBA programs (2002). The Terry MBA program was 23rd among public U.S. business schools making the list.