Here are some tips for selecting schools, based on an analysis comparing each school to all others across dozens of factors:
Schools Concentrating On Marketing Managers
- Focus: For schools with a focus on this career area, look at Kennesaw State, Life University, Shorter College-Professional Studies, and Macon State.
Fastest Response From Schools
- Request Info: For the fastest information for prospective students, look at the Spotlight schools on this page.
Student Body
- Part-Time: For schools emphasizing part-time studies, consider Clayton State, Life University, Columbus State, and Georgia Southwestern State.
- Female: For schools particularly welcoming to female students, consider Wesleyan College and Brenau.
- Diverse: For a diverse student body, consider Morehouse College, Fort Valley State, Paine College, and Savannah State.
- Adult Learners: For lots of adult learners, consider Shorter College-Professional Studies, Brenau, Central Georgia Technical College, and Wesleyan College.
School Setting
- Out of State: For geographic diversity, take note of Emory, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Life University.
- Dorms: For a residential campus environment, take note of Andrew, Wesleyan College, Berry, and Fort Valley State.
Excellence
- SAT: For students with high SAT scores, look at Emory, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, and Oglethorpe University.
- % Accepted: For selective institutions, look at Reinhardt College, Emory, Albany State, and Emmanuel.
- Class Size: For small class sizes, look at Wesleyan College, Berry, Emory, and Paine College.
Student/Alumnus Reviews of Schools for This Career and State
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Mercer University • Atlanta, GA
Studying Business (completion in 2008)
• 2/4/2012
"I feel like I achieved what I needed to while there. I'd select it again."
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale
| Characteristic | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Would Recommend? | yes | I would and I have! I did enjoy the experience. |
| Program Reputation | 7 | It's well known in the market, but not nationally. It was a private university. |
| Program Quality | 9 | Psychology, communications and an MBA are a great mix for this career. My undergrad university didn't offer a marketing degree. |
| Instruction | 9 | Nearly all of the professors had real world experience, rather than only academic careers. It was wonderful to have that information in the classroom. |
| How Difficult | 5 | The course load was average. The most challenging part was juggling the MBA program while still working full time. |
| Hands-On vs. Bookish | There were plenty of lectures, but also exercises that use our actual work experiences. We had to use our knowledge to immediately improve our work situations. | |
| Schedule Flexibility | 8 | There were night, weekend and online classes available. There weren't tons of course options each semester though, so when a necessary class came up, you needed to be sure to grab it. |
| Academic Facilities | 10 | The resources were pretty amazing when you consider what was available among the undergrad and all the graduate programs. The professors were always extremely available. |
| Social Life | 1 | It was a evening/weekend program for working adults. Undergrad however, was extremely social. |
| Placement Services | Since I was already employed, I did not use their career services. | |
| Alumni Network | 5 | I think I'd be more involved if I went for undergrad, but the graduate program was pretty small and we all worked full time, so we weren't as close/bonded as a full time program. |
Georgia State University • Atlanta, GA
Studying Real Estate (completion in 2008)
• 2/9/2012
"I'm very proud that I went to Georgia State University. At first I thought the school was average, but quickly learned that it was nationally recognized for its academics. Would I go there again if I had to? Yes. My co-workers always say how impressed they are that I graduated from Georgia State."
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale
| Characteristic | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Would Recommend? | yes | Without question, yes. For the small cost of tuition and big return on investment, you cannot beat Georgia State University. My younger brother is actually graduating from their this May. As far as the career stand point, yes again. The university knows what and who to bring to the table to make learning interesting for everyone. |
| Program Reputation | 10 | I attended the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State. Robinson College has been ranked nationally by Fortune Magazine in terms of best public undergraduate schools. We were always in the top 5. My current employer was even impressed that I went there. |
| Program Quality | 5 | My first two years of college, I had to complete general education courses (math, english, art, etc.) Then in my junior year I finally began taking courses that were relevant to my real estate major. The program was nothing exciting from a student stand point. |
| Instruction | 8 | In my senior year of college we had numerous guest speakers that came into class to discuss their professions with the students. I thought this was a great and direct idea of getting to know what's ahead after graduation. We had many people come in from brokerage firms and mortgage banks. |
| How Difficult | 6 | The real estate program was really not too difficult. General education classes were simple and by the book. The most difficult classes were the financial ones which required step by step knowledge of how to calculate marketing expenses for firms within a set budget. The less difficult classes were the marketing ones which were almost all term based and memorization. |
| Hands-On vs. Bookish | This school is very conservative, meaning everything was by the book. You did not have the option to not buy the book for the course. Some courses required 3 or 4 books at a time. I rate this a 9 instead of 10 because of the professional guest speakers we had come in my senior year. | |
| Schedule Flexibility | 8 | Georgia State included night classes for people like me that worked all day and could only attend during the evening. Saturday classes were extremely limited for some reason, and it was next to impossible to get into them since we had 25,000 students at the school. Summer offerings were the best because there were enough classes for everyone to attend for any part of the day. Almost everyone attended the summer classes because they are shorter and much easier, too. |
| Academic Facilities | 10 | Our library was one of the best in the state of Georgia as far as volume of books and resources available. Nobody ever had to wait for a book to be returned or wait on a computer to be open. The art department has all new apple computers and many of the older classrooms were in the process of being renovated. On the other side of campus, brand new buildings had just opened up for more departments. Classroom space was tight in every single class. I never had a class that was one or two people short. My academic advisers were always helpful and on top of their work. They always knew how many courses and credits I needed to complete my real estate program. Accessibility of professors was also excellent. Almost all professors were available to answer questions in the evenings. |
| Social Life | 7 | Well, let me begin to say that Georgia State now has a football team that was started 2 years ago. They are called the Panthers. My school email inbox was always posting social gatherings for all types of people and majors. Georgia State was really only serious about basketball since the team was very good, but now I imagine the social experiences are much better considering the new football team. |
| Placement Services | 10 | The best job placement program on earth. The staff helped me build a professional resume in one day and then we posted it on the school job board. The job board works like this: Employers post jobs on the school boards because they were only looking for Georgia State students or Alumni. This alone made things very easy. Within one week of posting my resume I had an interview which I nailed at the first attempt and I'm still currently with the same employer. |
| Alumni Network | I really would not know. I have twin girls and my wife keeps me busy. The alumni annual fee is a $100, I know that. That alone keeps a lot of alums away in the first place. |
The University Of Georgia • Athens, GA
Studying Business Administration Marketing (completion in 2009)
• 2/19/2012
"I worked very hard in college and did very well academically, but I still had an active social life. I was able to keep my life very well balanced and I was able to find a very good job after graduation. My college years are something I will always look back on with fondness."
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale
| Characteristic | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Would Recommend? | yes | The Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia is a difficult school, but you will learn so much and have the opportunity to participate in many life enriching things there. If you have the work ethic for it, I would definitely suggest it for a marketing degree. Also, your chances of getting a job in this terrible economy will increase dramatically. |
| Program Reputation | 10 | Since I have left I believe the reputation of Terry as a whole has only gotten better. My major, marketing, is one of the easier majors within Terry, but it's reputation is still a good one. |
| Program Quality | 10 | The University of Georgia has some of the best marketing professors in the United States. They also have a very competent career services center. |
| Instruction | 10 | My marketing classes were extremely challenging but very rewarding. I still remember much of what I was taught, which is not something everyone can say about their college classes. |
| How Difficult | 10 | Like I said above, my classes were extremely challenging. The business school at UGA, The Terry College of Business, is a nationally ranked school and is very difficult to a) get accepted into, and b) graduate from. |
| Hands-On vs. Bookish | Marketing is something that isn't so much "hands-on" as it is intuition and the understanding of people and what motivates them. As far as book learning vs hands on instruction go, my major had a fair mix of both but leant itself more to hands-on projects. | |
| Schedule Flexibility | 5 | Being in Terry made my schedule less flexible than it would have been otherwise. There were many classes that were only offered in the spring or in the fall and some classes were prerequisites for others. Many people I knew had to take extra semesters because of scheduling problems. |
| Academic Facilities | 10 | UGA put a lot of money into Terry because it was one of the schools within the university that attracted a lot of out of state students. This meant that our resources and facilities were always top notch. Terry also had a lot of corporate sponsors who donated money to the college. We had a state of the art sales laboratory and a building full of computer labs that was for Terry students only. Like I've said before, the Terry professors are some of the best in the nation and they were always available for help with class work and general life advice. |
| Social Life | 10 | Athens, the city in which The University of Georgia is located, has a very large downtown/bar/music scene. What more could a college student ask for? |
| Placement Services | 10 | The career services center at UGA is very helpful to graduating seniors who are in the beginning stages of their job hunting process. They offer things such as mock interviews, resume critiques, and general counseling. The UGA alumni network is also a valuable resource for graduating students. |
| Alumni Network | 10 | The alumni support network at The Terry College of Business is very large and the alumni from Terry are usually very successful. Getting a job out of college was relatively easy because I was able to leverage this network. |
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