Terry College of Business
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1912 |
| Dean | Benjamin C. Ayers |
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Academic staff
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136 (full-time) 33 (part-time) |
| Students | 3,346 |
| Undergraduates | 2,764 |
| Postgraduates | 514 |
| 68 | |
| Location | Athens, Georgia, US |
| Website | terry.uga.edu |
| Business school rankings | |
|---|---|
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 52 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 48 |
| U.S. undergraduate | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 48 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 21 |
The C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business is located at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The Terry College is the flagship business school in the state of Georgia and one of 17 schools and colleges at the oldest state-chartered public university in the country.
All programs are accredited by AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
The Terry College MBA Program is often recognized as a top graduate business program. The Terry MBA is offered as a full-time degree on campus in Athens, as an MBA for working professionals in Gwinnett County and in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, and as an Executive MBA in Buckhead. According to U.S. News & World Report (2015), the Terry MBA's ranking is 23rd among U.S. public institutions.
"Next to farming, more men enter business than any other occupation; yet there is not an institution [in the] South...that offers a course for such students."
The Terry College was founded as "the School of Commerce" in 1912 by the state’s Board of Regents, making it the first business school in the South. The early years of the school were "fragile" as the program struggled to acquire faculty and funding to serve the several students who had declared their intention to pursue the new Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree. The first such degree was awarded in 1915 to Willis Brazeal Sparks.
The school became known as the College of Business Administration from 1940 until 1991, when it was renamed the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business, honoring the late Herman Terry, and his wife, Mary Virginia, who as benefactors have endowed faculty chairs, research fellowships, scholarships, and funded facility upgrades.
In Athens, the Terry College offers an undergraduate program, four master's degrees (the Full-Time MBA, the Master of Accountancy, the Master of Marketing Research and the Master of Economics) and eight doctoral degree tracks. It offers two online degrees: a Bachelor of Business Administration completion degree in general business and a Master of Internet Technology degree. The Terry College also offers Executive MBA and Professional MBA programs at the Terry Executive Education Center in Atlanta.
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