Internationally recognized as a school on the rise, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business develops business leaders with a deep understanding of how technology and globalization are affecting business today and into the future.

The intersection of business and technology has always been at the heart of the Scheller College. Established a century ago, the College draws distinction from its roots in world-renowned technical research university, leveraging Georgia Tech's strengths in entrepreneurship and technology innovation.

Under the leadership of Dean Steve Salbu, the Scheller College aims to become the world's leading school for business and technology. "Technology is only becoming more important to society, the economy, and the world at large," Salbu says. "We are in the sweet spot, doing what the world is only going to consider more and more valuable."

The nationally ranked Scheller College offers undergraduate and doctoral degrees in addition to Full-time, Evening, and Executive MBA options. A wide range of custom programs and certificate programs for executives and professionals completes the College’s educational portfolio.

Students benefit from the College's home in the vibrant Technology Square community. Located in Midtown Atlanta, the heart of the city's high-tech business community and a popular live-work community, Tech Square is a natural setting for exploring synergies between business and technology. The area includes the Advanced Technology Development Center, a business incubator where students find entrepreneurial education opportunities, and the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, the nation's largest program for business/industry assistance and technology commercialization.

Completed in 2003, the College's 189,000-square-foot building (LEED-certified for environmentally friendly design) provides students with all the latest learning tools and enables them to attend classes just around the corner from companies where they can find promising internships, co-op jobs, and careers. The four-story building includes a 2,000-square-foot Trading Floor to help prepare students for careers in investment banking and financial services.

Maintaining a strong commitment to career services, the Scheller College boasts -employment rates for recent graduates that are well above the national average. Many of our alumni have gone on to become leaders in their fields. These include Thomas A. Fanning, chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company; Joseph W. Rogers Jr., founder chairman of Waffle House; Jack Guynn, retired president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Huber L. "Herky" Harris. Jr., former CEO of INVESCO; and David Dorman, former CEO of AT&T and current chairman of Motorola.

A 1952 graduate of the College, Ernest Scheller Jr. made the $50 million gift in 2013 that renamed the school from Georgia Tech College of Management to the Scheller College of Business. Chairman emeritus of Silberline Inc., Scheller says, "I owe so much to Georgia Tech and the rigorous education I received, and I've always felt a tremendous amount of gratitude and a strong desire to give back to the Institute. I want Georgia Tech and the business school to be number one."