UGA's Terry College of Business

Terry College of Business is a college within the University of Georgia (USA). Founded in 1912, Terry College is the oldest business school in the state of Georgia and one of 15 schools and colleges at the oldest state-chartered university in the country.

The College has the following Departments: J.M. Tull School of Accounting; Banking and Finance; Economics; Insurance; Legal Studies; Management; Management Information Systems; Marketing; Real Estate.

The Terry College's business administration and accounting has received accreditation from AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Rankings:

- 92nd among all business schools in the world, 45th in the United States and 20th among public business schools in the Economist Intelligence Unit Full Time MBA Rankings 2009.

- The Bachelor of Business Administration is placed 30th overall and 18th among public business schools (U.S. News & World Report, 2008).

- The MBA is placed 80th in the world, 46th among U.S. business schools and the 22nd best public business school (FT 2008). It is also rated the 3rd best "value for the money" of any U.S. business school.

- The bachelor's program is placed 44th in the BusinessWeek ranking of "The Best Undergraduate B-Schools" in the country (2008).

- The Executive MBA was ranked 22nd in the United States and 59th in the world, according to the Times' 2008 ranking. Terry's "Career Progress" rank was 3rd highest nationally and 13th internationally.

- The MBA program is placed 49th overall and 23rd among public business schools (USNWR, 2008).

- The undergraduate insurance program is placed 2nd in the nation; the undergraduate program in real estate is placed 3rd in the nation; the MIS Department is ranked 9th in a survey of the best undergraduate business programs for information systems; the graduate program in MIS is placed 15th nationally; the undergraduate program in accounting is rated 18th nationally; the graduate program in accounting is rated 22nd nationally (USNWR 2008).

- The full-time MBA program is ranked 34th in the country among MBA programs with regional recruiting patterns. Among all U.S. public business schools, the Terry College is ranked 23rd (The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive's 2007 survey).

- The Tull School of Accounting bachelor's and master's programs were ranked 10th and 11th, respectively, and its PhD program was ranked 21st (Public Accounting Report's 2007 Survey of Accounting Professors).

- 85th in the EIU Global Top 100 MBA Rankings 2007.

- Terry MBA 44th among the top U.S. business schools for return on investment (Forbes magazine, 2005). Among public business schools, it is rated 18th.

- Entrepreneur magazine has ranked the entrepreneurship program among its Top 50 in 2003 and 2005.

- The MBA program is placed among the Top 50 B-schools of 2004 by Business Week.

- The Economics Department ranked 2nd out of 69 Southern colleges and universities in terms of research productivity (2001 edition of Applied Economics Letters).

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