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Registration for Spring 2026 is underway in the Turner College and this post is taking a peek at the current numbers. As indicated in the table below, so far there are 1,731 enrollments in the business courses (with ACCT, BUSA, ECON, FINC, MGMT, MISM and MKTG prefixes) offered by the Turner College. Of these, 612 enrollments (35.4%) are for face-to-face sections and 1,119 (64.6%) are for online sections. In terms of individual subjects, BUSA has enrolled the most students to date, with 142 face-to-face enrollments (30.9%) and 321 online enrollments (69.1%), which is skewed more towards online enrollments than the college average. Accounting so far enrolls the second most students, with 129 face-to-face enrollments (47.6%) and 142 online enrollments (52.4%), figures that are much less skewed towards online education than the college average . ECON so far has 82 face-to-face section enrollments and 147 online section enrollments, placing it right on the college average in terms of online...

The setting of roles within a firm by comparative advantage—even for versatile star-employees—has been an important managerial capacity in and out of sport and across eras. According to Marcus Buckingham, a leading management consultant with expertise in matching employees to roles, a primary role of effective managers is to “…tweak roles to capitalize on individual strengths.” Of central importance to such managerial allocations is the concept of comparative advantage, which maximizes group productivity via optimal specialization. As important as the concept of comparative advantage is, it is perhaps equally subtle or tricky. When a firm has a star employee or star employees—ones who possess absolute advantages at all tasks—it may be difficult to reconcile her (his, their) optimal role(s). At the same time, employees often learn their comparative advantage during early career and pursue that advantage by matching to firms/managers accordingly. These reinforcing effects suggest that em...

Over the past few days Turner Business has explored recent enrollment trends involving the Turner College's undergraduate business majors. This post shifts gears a bit by examining enrollment numbers in the Turner College's graduate business programs and in the TSYS School's graduate programs in computer science. As shown in the table below, the Turner College's MBA program has experienced some enrollment issues lately, with the number of MBA students dropping by 11.1% from Fall 2021 through Fall 2025. This trend has been the subject of analysis in previous posts here at Turner Business . Offsetting this decline has been the tremendous growth in recent years of the Turner College's MS in organizational leadership. The number of students in that program has grown by 131.7% since Fall 2021, bringing overall growth across these two programs to 65.8% since Fall 2021. Enrollment in the TSYS School's graduate programs has mirrored that of the business programs, only ...

Turner Business has just been informed that  KPMG Partner John Schaffner, CPA, has confirmed his willingness to speak to Turner College students and faculty about the Impact of AI on accounting and business. According to Turner College finance professor Uma Sridharan , who set up the talk. Schaffner's virtual (or video) presentation is set for Tuesday, November 11, from 12:30 pm to 12:55 pm.  Schaffner  has extensive experience supporting clients with buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence support (e.g. quality of earnings, net working capital, net debt, and underlying business performance), executing on roll-up strategies, carve-out transactions, cross-border transactions, purchase and sales agreement support, and aiding in securing financing and reps and warranties insurance.   Schaffner joined KPMG ( Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler ) as an Associate in 2010. From there he rose to Senior Associate (2012) and Manager (2014), then Director (2016). In 2021 ...

Recent posts here at Turner Business have examined enrollment issues involving the Turner College's undergraduate business majors. The changes discussed in those posts are summarized in the table below. As shown below, in recent years the numbers of general business and marketing majors are down between 13.4% and 15.0%. The numbers of majors in accounting and management are down between 25.6% and 29.7%. Lastly, although the good news for the Turner College is that the numbers of finance and MIS majors have risen 19.4% and 75.6%, respectively, the total number of majors in the Turner College is down 11.4%. The table above provides our first look at undergraduate enrollment in the TSYS School. As indicated above, the number of students majoring in computer science is down 32.1%, while the number of information technology majors has fallen by 18.9%. Offsetting these drops is the fact that the number of cybersecurity majors has risen a whopping 336.6%. Despite this massive jump, the n...

If you've ever visited LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, you've likely seen Mike the Tiger, the famed live Bengal Tiger that serves as the graphic image of all LSU Athletics teams, and that resides in a 15,000-square foot environment that includes lush planting, a live oak tree, a waterfall and a stream evolving from a rocky backdrop overflowing with plants and trees that is situated  between Tiger Stadium and the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. As the image above indicates, Mike the Tiger is a favorite among LSU supporters and fans, particularly the younger ones. The current Mike the Tiger, Mike VII, was  donated to LSU by the Okeechobee, Florida-based sanctuary Wild at Heart Wildlife Center. Two states closer to Georgia, at the University of North Alabama in Florence, sits a lion enclosure, known as the George H. Carroll Lion Habitat,  in the middle of the University of North Alabama's campus. Until recently, it was home to Leo and Una (see image at left), a pair of live...