Enrollment: 97
Average GMAT: 504.00
GMAT Range (25-75%): 450-610
Average Undergrad GPA: 3.04
Rolling Admission: Yes
School Type: Public
Average Age: 27.00
Average Work Experience (months): 60
Student Faculty Ratio: 20:1

Part Time Program: Yes
Evening Program: Yes
Executive MBA Program Offered: No
Total Faculty: 20

Out-of-State Tuition: $6,716.00
In-State Tuition: $1,676.00
Financial Aid Deadline: 06/01

Students Say - Academics
Convenience and cost are the two main reasons students cite for choosing the MBA program at Augusta State University. Many students here tell us that they attended the school as undergraduates and saw no reason to leave.
At ASU's MBA program, "Personal attention and career development are a given. Students have to actively work at not being known by the administration and faculty of the Business School." Service is key; despite its relatively small MBA enrollment, "ASU has a dedicated educational professional to usher graduate students through the program." One student notes, "The school is the perfect size. It is small enough to allow for more personal relations between the student and the teacher but is big enough to enjoy all the aspects of attending a college." A "low teacher/student ratio" and "professors who are approachable and willing to help students" are among the other perks of attending. ASU works hard to accommodate its students' schedules by offering "almost every needed subject in the program" during the fall and spring semesters.
MBAs at ASU must complete a 12-course sequence that includes 2 electives and 10 required courses in human resources management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics, production management, leadership, management information systems, business research methods, and an integrating course in strategic management. Students tell us that the school has traditionally been recognized for strengths for economics, finance, and accounting, as well as in "certain quantitative-based courses like market research." In addition, ASU has taken steps in order to better prepare the students for information-based knowledge. Those steps include "recently naming an information technology professor to chair the program."

Students Say - Admissions
Applicants to the Hull College of Business MBA program must submit all of the following: official transcripts for all undergraduate and graduate work; an official score report for the GMAT (test score can be no more than 5 years old); and a completed application form. In addition, international students whose first language is not English must submit an official score for the TOEFL and a financial responsibility statement. International transcripts must be submitted via Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc., a company that matches international course work to its American equivalent. The Admissions Committee looks for students with significant and diverse work experience, varied educational backgrounds, and sound academic achievement. Incoming students must be able to run word processing, spreadsheet, and database programs.

Students Say - Campus Life
Most ASU MBAs "work full-time during the day and attend classes at night," which means they have limited time to devote to extracurricular activities. Students tell us that "many professors acknowledge the average students' work/demand schedule and design their courses to allow students to catch up on the weekends." MBAs also appreciate how the small-school environment creates "the opportunity to get to know the students and faculty on a greater than superficial level," an opportunity students take advantage of by "congregating in a small centralized area of the building before classes." With so many chances to bond with peers and professors, it's no wonder students tell us that "the school feels like a family."
Full-time students-consisting primarily of international students and undergraduates proceeding directly from their BA program to the MBA-tell us that "there is an active campus life at ASU even though few students actually live on campus. There are so many groups to be involved with and [there are] always activities going on. The school spirit at ASU is so alive, and the students there really love their campus. Most of the MBA students are graduates of ASU, so I believe they feel the same as well." Clubs "are very active on campus." Phi Beta Lambda is one of the major ones for business students. MBAs tell us that the school has worked hard to beautify and improve this campus, which, they note, "was an arsenal during the Civil War. The school has done a great job of keeping that heritage intact" while simultaneously adding such assets as a " beautiful new student center" that "provides study areas, gym equipment, billiards, and a host of other activities for students that help to release school stress." Commuters warn that "parking is limited during morning hours, but afternoon and evening parking is very good."
The ASU student body is "broadly diverse in age, occupation, race, and educational background, but [they are] uniformly goal oriented, serious, and competitive, [while also] capable or working in a team environment." Students seem to appreciate this diversity. One student says, "I have come in contact with people from many different cultures, and it gives me a different outlook on business." Even though there are "so many international students," most "seem to be regular people with careers who have felt a need to improve themselves."

Students Say - Careers
The ASU Career Center serves all undergraduates and graduate students at the university. Services are geared primarily toward undergraduates, in part because the school's graduate divisions are so small and in part because many graduate students-including many MBAs-attend while continuing in jobs they intend to keep post-graduation. The office sponsors an annual Career Fair and offers the standard battery of career services: job posting, counseling, mock interviews, on-campus recruiting, and more.

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