Two construction cranes hover over a giant worksite just outside the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
What they’re building is both a show of optimism in and a way to attract more students to something universities badly need but are beginning to worry about: graduate education.
The $200 million project will house Scheller’s graduate and executive business programs in one tower, connected to Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in another. Linking graduate business programs with other disciplines has proven to increase demand; Scheller has already added a science, technology, engineering and math designation to its master’s program in business administration, with a resulting bump in applications, the school says.
