The Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology finished No. 15 in Poets&Quants’ 2025 ranking of the Best Undergraduate Business Programs in the U.S.
In our three methodological categories, Scheller finished highest in Academic Experience, based solely on the alumni survey, where it ranked seventh out of 105 ranked programs. It also finished 15th in Admission Standards and 25th in Career Outcomes.
Scheller had a 18.8% acceptance rate for the 2024 incoming class, slightly more selective than its 19.40% for the previous class. Their average SAT score was 1367, compared to 1339 for incoming class of 2023. The school’s 6-year graduation rate is 91%.
In career data, Scheller reports that 91% of its Class of 2024 grads completed at least one business-specific internship before graduation, up from 88% of the Class of 2023. Some 89.2% of 2024 job-seeking graduations secured a full-time position within three months of graduation, down from last year’s employment rate of 90.9%.
2024 Scheller grads reported an average starting salary of $80,221; 64% received an average signing bonus of $7,657. Top employers include Bank of America, KPMG, The Home Depot, Truist Securities, Norfolk Southern, Goldman Sachs, PwC, Capital One, and American Express.
THE SCHELLER ADVANTAGE
Scheller is best known for its multi-faceted approach to business education. As a part of Georgia Tech, the B-school intrinsically combines aspects of STEM into the curriculum with key capstone courses that exemplify Scheller’s multi-dimensional approach to business education.
Located in the heart of Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square, Scheller is right in the middle of one of the highest density of startups in the Southeastern, U.S. The B-school sits at the intersection of tech innovation, cutting-edge research, and management education.
Scheller students are admitted directly into the business program, meaning they can start taking business courses right away. The curriculum is designed to fit in a semester abroad and two full internship experiences within four years.
Students begin their educational journey taking core courses within Georgia Tech in English, Mathematics, Humanities, Social Science, Computer Science, Health, and Laboratory Science giving them a holistic foundation to their business education.
Students earn a B.S. in Business Administration and can choose between eight concentrations: Accounting, Finance, General Management, IT Management, Leadership and Organizational Change, Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Strategy and Innovation.
Beyond concentrations, students can expand their expertise with certificates and minors – including the new FinTech minor – that build in-demand skills for careers in emerging industries.
One of the cornerstone offerings at Scheller is the Denning Technology & Management (T&M) Program. Through the program, students can earn a 22-credit-hour minor with tracks including: Computing & Business Minor, Engineering & Business Minor, and Technology & Business Minor.
T&M students study managing emerging technologies and new product and services development. The program is topped off with an integrated capstone project course, where students work in teams to focus on a specific problem posed by one of the program’s Corporate Affiliates.
HANDS-ON LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
In addition to the T&M Program, there are a number of other experiential learning opportunities available to Scheller students to dive deeper into their field of study and apply their knowledge in real-world settings.
In the Sustainable Business Practicum course, students focus on real-world sustainability projects (those with an environmental or social dimension that impacts business risk or opportunity) with student teams working together to develop practical recommendations and solutions for participating company sponsors.
The new Center for Finance and Technology gives students access to hands-on learning in FinTech, banking, and investment technology, often engaging with real companies, real data, and real decision-making.
ALUMNI SAY
“I was a part of a Capstone project for the Denning Technology & Management (T&M) program at Georgia Tech. This was an important experience because it gave us the opportunity to solve real business problems for companies who recruited on campus.”
“I completed a capstone project working for Georgia Pacific where I helped develop an online GUI tool to help solve a real world problem & completed a real financial analysis. This helped me understand what working in a big company was like & get a feel for a real project and the kinds of decisions that needed to be made on a daily basis in an analyst role.”
“Georgia Tech does an incredible job of not only developing relevant and meaningful curriculum but also from the start of freshman year sets you up to succeed at both landing your dream job and succeeding in your job. Georgia Tech has established and maintained strong relationships with Fortune 500 companies because of how impressive Georgia Tech students have performed at these companies in the past. Our students are some of the brightest and hard working graduates because of Scheller. As a result, companies across the nation are eager to come to us to meet and hire Georgia Tech students (as opposed to students having to chase down and pursue the companies themselves). The statistics of starting salaries of Scheller students, graduation rate, company profile, job offers and more are all well above national average. I was prepared, I was cared for, I grew personally and professionally, and could talk for hours about how impressive the ROI is for a degree from Scheller.”
“The program is extremely collaborative and entrepreneurial given its smaller class sizes. I was able to develop very strong relationships with my professors, academic advisors, and even the dean of the program which was very helpful in navigating recruitment / internship processes.”
