General Questions
Two years gives you something valuable: time to explore and make the most of your MBA experience. You’ll have the opportunity to test new career directions, build expertise, develop your leadership capabilities, complete a summer internship, and pursue experiences that may not fit into a traditional academic schedule.
At Goizueta, you’ll also begin preparing for your career from day one, so you can use those two years intentionally—not simply take more time to earn your degree.
The value of a Goizueta MBA extends beyond your starting salary. You’re investing in the expertise, leadership capabilities, relationships, and career opportunities that can shape your trajectory for years to come.
The Two-Year MBA also gives you something a One-Year MBA does not: time to explore, gain experience, and make a more informed career move. From a summer internship and real client projects to personalized career coaching and a global alumni network, every part of the experience is designed to help you maximize the return on your investment. Goizueta consistently delivers strong career outcomes and a top-10 ROI ranking among top business schools.
The Two-Year MBA is designed for professionals who want to use their MBA to accelerate their careers, explore new possibilities, or make a meaningful career transition. It’s particularly well suited for students who want the time and structure to pursue a summer internship, explore industries or functions, or build expertise in an area that is new to them.
Goizueta welcomes applicants with undergraduate degrees from all majors. We look for students with diverse educational backgrounds and work experiences.
We encourage applicants to have at least two years of post-undergraduate, full-time work experience prior to the start of your MBA. Most of our students have between 3 and 7 years of work experience. Substantive work experience means you will be able to contribute more to classroom discussions and will have more focus with regard to personal and professional goals.
No, we do not accept transfer credits.
If you have earned a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree in the United States, you are not eligible to enroll in a Goizueta Business School MBA. Exceptions to this policy will be considered on a rare case-by-case basis if the degree is considered not comparable to the academic and experiential content of Goizueta Business School's MBA.
Academics and Logistics Questions
The Two-Year MBA begins in late July. Domestic students should plan to arrive in the area at least one week prior to the start dates. International students should plan to arrive in the area at least two weeks prior to the start dates.
Your Goizueta experience starts with Day One Career Readiness, so you begin building toward your goals from the start. Individual and Team Performance Coaching helps you strengthen decision-making, collaboration, and leadership skills, while the Quantitative and AI Foundations Bootcamp builds the analytical and technology capabilities today’s employers demand.
From there, the curriculum takes an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to business. Rather than learning each discipline in isolation, you’ll connect concepts across courses, examine shared cases from multiple perspectives, and learn through faculty collaboration across disciplines. You’ll tackle complex business challenges through tech-driven problem solving and real-world projects—including Goizueta IMPACT, where you’ll work with a real client during your first year. The Growth Week Capstone Project brings your core learning together, challenging you to synthesize and apply what you’ve learned across courses to a complex business challenge.
You’ll also have the opportunity to choose spring electives in your first year, allowing you to begin building expertise aligned with your career goals earlier in the program. Flexible Fridays provide fewer in-class commitments so you can focus on networking, career opportunities, and professional development.
In your second year, you’ll go deeper through electives, concentrations, global experiences, and leadership development. The result is a curriculum designed to help you connect disciplines, solve problems, lead through complexity, and make an impact from day one.
You have significant flexibility to build an MBA around your goals. Choose from a broad range of electives and 26+ concentrations, explore specialized areas of business, and take advantage of experiential and global learning opportunities.
You’ll also have opportunities to explore coursework across Emory University, giving you the ability to bring perspectives from disciplines beyond business into your MBA experience.
Diverse and deeply collaborative. You’ll learn alongside accomplished professionals with different backgrounds, industries, perspectives, and ambitions.
Because the community is intentionally close-knit, you’ll build meaningful relationships with classmates, faculty, alumni, and business leaders. Those relationships become an important part of the Goizueta experience—and a network you carry with you after graduation.
Yes, Goizueta's MBA degree does have STEM designation. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allows graduates of STEM programs on F-1 visas, who work for an E-Verify employer, the opportunity to work full-time in the US. In addition to the normal Optional Practical Training (OPT) period of 12 months for international students, a STEM degree makes possible a 24-month extension of post-completion OPT, offering total potential eligibility of up to 36 months.
Our program is very intense in the initial semesters. Two-Year MBA students are not able to work or travel during their first semester. Subsequent semesters do allow for more flexibility to accommodate flexible part-time work and travel.
Two-Year MBA students have the opportunity to study abroad in their second year at one of 65 leading business schools across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Asia Pacific through Goizueta’s membership in the Partnership in International Management (PIM), a global consortium of prestigious business schools.
Emory offers graduate professional housing in venues on the edges of campus targeted to student's needs and desires. Emory provides shuttles to these units. In addition, the Emory area offers a wide variety of attractive and affordable housing options including apartment complexes and rental homes. Admitted students receive more information on housing following admission to the program.
At Goizueta, we know an MBA journey isn’t just about the student—it’s about the support system around them. That’s why we offer structured support and programming to engage partners and families, helping you stay connected, informed, and celebrated throughout the year. Our partner's club is quite active, and all partners and family are encouraged to participate at events throughout the program. We also provide access to Emory facilities include gyms and the library, enable families to be on student health insurance, and can provide guidance on house and child care options (with two child care options located near the business school).
Career Questions
Career development starts before you even arrive on campus. Every student works with a personal career coach to understand your goals, assess your strengths, and create a personalized career plan.
From there, you’ll have access to career courses, workshops, interview preparation, networking opportunities, employer connections, recruiting resources, and ongoing coaching. The goal is to make you Day One Ready—prepared not only to land your next opportunity but to make an immediate impact once you get there.
The two-year format gives you time to make a thoughtful, informed pivot. You can explore industries and functions through coursework and conversations with employers, build relevant expertise through electives and concentrations, gain hands-on experience through IMPACT, and then test your direction through a summer internship.
Your career coach helps you connect those experiences into a focused strategy for your post-MBA career.
Goizueta has a longstanding track record of strong career outcomes, historically ranking among the top 10 MBA programs nationally for career outcomes. Goizueta graduates pursue opportunities across industries and functions, including consulting, financial services, technology, healthcare, consumer products and retail, transportation and logistics, and more. Your individual outcome will depend on your experience, goals, performance, and the opportunities you pursue. Goizueta gives you the skills, experiences, relationships, and career support to pursue the path that’s right for you.
Graduates typically experience a significant jump in compensation compared to what they were earning before entering the MBA as well as advanced career progression whether that be a role with more responsibilities, a higher title than when they entered the program, or entering a new field or industry. Historically, Goizueta graduates have had career outcomes
Your relationship with Goizueta doesn’t end at graduation. You’ll join a global alumni network of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals across industries and functions.
As your career evolves, that network remains a source of connections, expertise, mentorship, and opportunity. Through Alumni Career Services, you can also continue to access career support as your goals change and your career progresses.