Eighty-nine years after a Dayton jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, the people of this town are still acting out the creationist debate, all in order to put on a show. The lesson of the Scopes Trial is not that some people are stupid science-deniers. Itâs that scientific fact can all too easily be spun up into performances and archetypal dramas. John Scopes, the schoolteacher, was not a prisoner of his conscience. Dayton was not a particularly religious town.
Students come from all across the U.S. and the world. Ranked #20 by U.S. News and World Report and #14 by Kiplingerâs Personal Finance for best values among private universities, Emory University offers a small liberal arts college environment within a major research university.
The 2017 graduating class in the two-year full-time MBA program at Emory is made up of approximately 66 percent male and 34 percent female students, with 14 percent part of a minority group and 35 percent self-reporting as international. These students have an average of 6 years of professional work experience. The average GMAT and GPA earned by these students are 620-740 (80 percent range) and 3.4, respectively. The 2018 graduating class in the one-year MBA program is approximately 66 percent male and 36 percent female, with 18 percent self-reporting as minorities and 16 percent self-reporting as international students.