Women in Business

Women Applicants

Women Excel at Goizueta

No Glass Ceilings. Only Open Doors.

Goizueta has long been committed to raising the stature of women in business. To do so, you must not only receive a world-class education, you must also be enveloped in a supportive community with comprehensive programming designed specifically to address the challenges facing women in business.

Goizueta Leadership Are Women

(Senior and Program Leaders)
Highest % of Women Faculty

(Financial Times Top 25 US MBAs)

Breaking Barriers. Building Futures.

Goizueta LeadHERship Program

Goizueta's LeadHERship Program delivers a range of large-group signature events and more intimate workshops throughout the year to create a bonded community and strengthen your professional network among women in business (fellow MBA students, Goizueta alumni, and executives in the region).

Goizueta LeadHERship Signature Events

Onboarding Dinner

Start your MBA experience with a welcome from the Program Dean and staff as well as a keynote on building a successful business school experience by Goizueta faculty, containing practical tips for enhancing performance outcomes and experiences for women students.
Fall Brunch with Women Leaders

Enjoy a moderated panel discussion with 3-4 senior, senior women leaders discussing their own career trajectories and providing inspiration as well as tactical lessons for career management to our women students.
Mid-Year Check-In

Gather with your fellow women MBA students in their first year in an informal, supportive environment to have a frank conversation about the successes and challenges our women students faced in their first half-year of business school.
Capstone Dinner

Bookend your MBA experience with a capstone dinner as you near graduation. This is an opportunity to toast to your successes, reflect on your MBA experience and transformation, and receive advice from faculty and other women leaders on managing career success post-business school.

Goizueta LeadHERship Workshops

Crafting and Communicating Your Personal Brand

A 3-5 hour interactive workshop leveraging an expert facilitator to help you craft your personal brand—how you promote yourself and how others see you.
Attracting and Cultivating Advocates

A 2-hour workshop highlighting strategies to build career advocates...employees with advocates are 23% more likely to advance at work.
Life Design for the Modern MBA

An intimate event to discuss the career impacts women face when balancing career and family and strategies to manage both successfully.
Building Wealth

A workshop that addresses financial planning issues unique to professional women such as pre-nuptial agreements, childcare and educational savings, compensation packages, and more.

Organizations & Resources

Better Together

At Goizueta, we believe that a woman's place is in leadership. You'll gain access to these and other organizations and resources that help get you there and support you along the way.

Graduate Women in Business (GWIB) offers professional and personal development opportunities for graduate women at Goizueta. You'll meet like-minded, accomplished women who seek growth beyond the classroom. Through GWIB-sponsored networking, speakers, social events, community service and communication, you'll foster relationships within and beyond Emory. And with each activity, you'll develop not only your community, but also your contribution to others.

Whether you are a woman executive, or you're becoming one, you know how unique your perspective is in today's business world. The mission of the Executive Women of Goizueta (EWG) is to create a community that facilitates, promotes, and inspires personal and professional leadership for Goizueta women. EWG hosts a variety of annual events designed to help Goizueta women encourage each other to remove barriers, promote diversity, and develop into stronger leaders. Discussion forums, educational events, and networking and volunteer opportunities are just some of the ways EWG helps you develop your voice while contributing to our collective voice.

Goizueta is a proud partner of The Forté Foundation and shares its vision and commitment to women in the workplace. Through our Women's Program, Goizueta aligns with other Foundation partners—leading companies and top business schools—to further women's advancement in business leadership through access to business education, opportunities, and a community. In conjunction with Forte's annual MBA Women's Leadership Conference, we also deliver additional programming for incoming students, current students, and alumni in the conference's host city.

Goizueta is a proud partner of Admit.me Access, the only free comprehensive admission resource for underrepresented minorities (URMs) and women interested in applying to an MBA or business-related MS/PhD program. Access members receive a comprehensive admission and career curriculum developed by expert admission representatives. Access members will also receive an invitation to an exclusive community of applicants, mentors, and coaches to ensure members never apply alone. In addition, Access members will have opportunities to connect with various school admission representatives, students, and alumni along with exclusive offers for discounted test preparation, admission coaching, and career services.

Access members who can demonstrate a resource gap, which may include a gap in financing, professional network, or family education, may apply to become an Admit.me Fellow. As an Admit.me Fellow, you will be provided with services worth > $2,000, including free test preparation resources, coaching and career resources, and a more robust community of mentors to assist you through the process. Admit.me Fellows have a > 95% acceptance rate into at least one school and >70% are awarded fellowship money.

Center for Women at Emory

The Center for Women at Emory helps Emory University provide the best possible environment for women as students, scholars, and employees. We advocate for gender equity throughout the University; provide resources and skill-building opportunities; and bring faculty, students, practitioners, activists, and other learners together to examine gender issues and work toward ethical solutions.

Goizueta Alumni Mentor Program

As you make your mark on the business world, learn from someone who already has. The Goizueta Student-Alumni Mentor Program is designed to help students bridge the gap between the academic and professional world through the practical insights, coaching and experience of the Goizueta alumni network. Through the Alumni Mentor Program, you're paired with an alumna — or alumnus if you prefer — according to shared areas of interest and affinity preferences. In your mentor, you'll find the voice of experience, a sounding board, and a perspective that helps expand your own.

Women in Power. Women Empowered.

Conveying Competence and Credibility

Women report that an MBA education greatly improves their comfort level with risk and ambiguity — cornerstones of the corner office. You will earn a credential which helps you convey competence and credibility and gives you the confidence required to take on business challenges. And long-term, the salary rewards of an MBA career path are substantial, enabling a secure future for you and those who depend on you.
Reaching a Higher Standard

Goizueta Business School can help you reach a higher standard. Students at Goizueta benefit from both a rigorous education and small class size, and our cohort structure and team assignments ensure that you maximize peer-to-peer learning from a diverse and talented class, with whom you will examine real-world situations brought in directly by Atlanta's Fortune 500 executives.
Tapping into a Community of Support

Access to faculty and personal career coaches ensure you are able to translate lessons from the classroom to value-added for your company or future employer. The involvement of peers, faculty, and staff — along with a strong network of dedicated alumni — provides you with a personalized advisory board for your academic and career success. We invite you to get to know Goizueta, and all we have to offer.

Voices of Goizueta

Rosemary and John Brown Family Scholars Program

Merit-Based Scholarship

This $5 million scholarship endowment is open to graduates of Spelman College and Agnes Scott College who are accepted into a Goizueta graduate program. Scholarships are merit-based. Brown Family Scholars admitted into any of Goizueta’s graduate programs will benefit from small-by-design program classes known for a collaborative culture and highly experiential learning model. This will help scholars to formally build camaraderie and continue with mentoring and networking during the remainder of their studies.

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