Goizueta Business School’s Two-Year MBA consistently ranks as one of the top programs in the country by the likes of Businessweek and U.S. News & World Report—and alumni.
This year’s group of full-time students (129 in total) bring with them an average of 6.2 years of work experience. That background knowledge will serve them well as a foundation for the classes they’ll take, leadership opportunities they’ll seize, and complex, real-world business problems they’ll solve over the course of their two years at Emory University.
The benefit of the Two-Year MBA program for this class is a unique combination. They will be able to study with this level of elite faculty and classmates in a learning environment that is as small and close-knit as we are.
Brian Mitchell, associate dean of Goizueta’s full-time MBA programs
“It is an enormous benefit for students to be able to develop where they can be seen and heard as valued members of a strong community. They also get to have that experience in a world-class city where they still have access to many of the top organizations in the business world,” shares Brian Mitchell, associate dean of Goizueta’s full-time MBA programs and Goizueta Global Strategy & Initiatives.
The class of 2026 includes 32% women, 45% U.S. minority, and 45% international students.
Just a few of these stellar students include:
- – An ICU nurse who worked in surgical, transplant, and COVID units. This student was also a travel nurse in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Arkansas.
- – A recording artist who worked for Arcade Song Publishing, Sony Music, Columbia Records, and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
- – The founder and designer of the company Five One Three Designs, who also designed the book The World of Dad Jokes.
- – A Frito-Lay product manager who also served as the co-director of Camp Kesem and raised $70K to run this camp for children whose parents have cancer.
- – The founder of Tierra Unidad, Gwinnett County’s first bilingual community garden, which aims to teach Latinos about emerging farming practices. This student also created a risk assessment report for the Tokyo Olympics.
- – The co-founder of Activ24 Foods and Oils, a community focused on high-quality organic food products and cold-pressed edible oils that operates in 10 districts in India.
- – Some other incoming students include a professional race car driver, vice president of strategic client group at Truist, Coca-Cola brand manager, and a petroleum engineer.
The group also includes 19 members of the armed forces. Among the veterans, one is a decorated Green Beret officer, with a bronze star, who led a 12-month Special Forces team during the 10-day Battle of Hasakah.
“The Class of 2026 is exceptional in a number of ways,” reflects Mitchell. “They bring exceptional academic preparation, with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.5, across the widest range of majors and disciplines we have ever had in the program. Those perspectives are going to lead to enriched experiences inside and outside of the classroom. They are going to challenge each other – and us – to think about the world through different lenses. This is the key to building empathy as a leadership characteristic, so I have particularly high hopes for this class.”
Interested in learning more? Find out how the Goizueta MBA takes students beyond business as usual.
