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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.
Ambitious Goals
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, workshops,
and certificate programs for executives and professionals completes the
College’s educational portfolio.
Vibrant Community
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.
Prestigious Alumni
Maintaining a strong commitment
to career services, the Scheller College boasts placement rates for both
undergraduate and graduate students 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."
Historical Timeline
| 1888 |
The Georgia School of Technology opens in October, offering a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering to 129 students, with five professors and five shop supervisors. |
| 1912 |
A School of Commerce is created to provide business education to Georgia Tech students. |
| 1933 |
The newly-created Board of Regents consolidates Georgia's system of higher education; the School of Commerce is moved to the University of Georgia. |
| 1934 |
An Industrial Management program is established at Georgia Tech to meet the need for management training in a technical environment. |
| 1945 |
The Master of Science in Industrial Management is authorized as the first professional management degree in the state. |
| 1969 |
The School of Industrial Management becomes the College of Industrial Management. |
| 1970 |
The PhD program in Management is established. |
| 1989 |
A number of academic units are reorganized at Georgia Tech, and the the College of Management is combined with the schools of economics, humanities and social sciences to create the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy and International Affairs. |
| 1993 |
The Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research (GT CIBER), one of 27 national resource centers competitively funded by the US Department of Education, is established in the School of Management. |
| 1994 |
The School of Management established the Office of Executive and Professional programs to offer management development programs to practicing managers and executives. |
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1999 |
Professor Terry Blum begins her seven-year tenure as dean of what is again known as a full-fledged College. |
| 2000 |
Georgia Tech announces plans for the Midtown Atlanta Fifth Street Project, which includes new management and executive education buildings. |
| 2003 |
The College of Management moves into its new location at Technology Square, the emerging center of technology located off Fifth Street in Midtown Atlanta. |
| 2005 |
The Global Executive MBA Program is launched as a companion program to the Executive MBA in Management of Technology. |
| 2006 |
The College of Management defines its mission to become "the world's preeminent business school for technology and management" under the leadership of new Dean Steve Salbu.
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| 2007 |
The first students enroll in the College’s Evening MBA Program.
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| 2008 |
In partnership with the College of Engineering, the College of Management starts the Steven A. Denning Technology & Management Program, which cross-trains students in business and engineering. The Colleges of Computing and Sciences later join the interdisciplinary program.
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| 2009 |
The College receives an anonymous $25 million gift ($20 million of which is a dollar-for-dollar matching grant, with a deadline of mid-2012). The growth in endowment made possible by the Challenge Grant provides support for faculty chairs and professorships, undergraduate student scholarships, and graduate student fellowships.
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| 2011 |
The College changes the undergraduate degree name from a bachelor of science in management (BSM) to a bachelor of science in business administration (BBA). The change aligns the undergraduate program to the various Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees offered at the College.
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| 2012 |
The College is renamed the Scheller College of Business following a $50 million gift from alumnus Ernest Scheller Jr., IM 1952. The first half of his gift initiated the Challenge Grant that began in 2009. |
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| AACSB | Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business | | SACS | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Bloomberg BusinessWeek | |
#23 | Top 25 US MBA Programs | |
#8 | Among Public Universities | |
#1 | Among Public Universities in Georgia | |
#23 | Return On Investment Worldwide | | | | US News & World Report | |
#27 | Top MBA Programs | |
#10 | Among Public Universities | |
#1 | Among Public Universities in Georgia | |
#13 | Supply Chain/Logistics | |
#1 | Supply Chain/Logistics in Georgia | |
#14 | Production/Operations Management | |
#1 | Production/Operations Management in the Southeast & Georgia | |
#16 | Information Systems | | |
Evening MBA Program Rankings
| US News & World Report | |
#24 | Top 30 Part-time MBA Programs | | |
Undergraduate Program Rankings
| US News & World Report | |
#31 | Top 50 Undergraduate Programs | |
#6 | Quantitative Analysis | |
#11 | Production/Operations Management | |
#12 | Management Information Systems | |
#14 | Supply Chain Management/Logistics | | | | Bloomberg Businessweek | |
#41 | Top Undergraduate Programs | |
#13 | Among Public Universities | | 87% | Job Placement Rate within 3 months of graduation | | A+ | Job Placement | | A | Teaching Quality | |
#22 | Recruiter Survey | |
#33 | Student Satisfaction Survey | | |
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