Turner Business

Yesterday, Turner Business began an in-depth look at fall 2026 enrollment in its business programs. The first two posts concerned the organization's graduate business programs . This particular entry focuses on some of the undergraduate course offerings for fall 2026. As shown in the table below, six fall 2026 course sections of various subjects currently have low enrollments, ranging from a low of four students to a high of 11 students. Using the recent decision to cancel all MSOL courses with fewer than 11 students, four of these six sections would have been cancelled last week.   The table above also shows the current tuition and fee generation of each of the six low enrollment courses. These range from a low of only $5,088 to a high of only $13,992. The total tuition and fee generation from the menu above is only $66,144, and covering these six course sections requires use of two full-time faculty. In contrast, the four sections of MSOL courses that were cancelled last week w...

This morning's post covered the faltering enrollments in the Turner College's MSOL program. This afternoon we continue our series on declining enrollments in the Turner College's business programs with a look at its MBA course offerings for fall semester 2026. The table below shows the four course offerings for fall 2026 and their current enrollments. Based on this morning's blog post, if the first offering shown in the table below had an "MSOL" prefix, it would, with only 10 enrollees, have been cancelled last week. Two of the other three courses currently stand with only 11 students enrolled, while the largest section currently has only 13 enrollees. Based on in-state tuition, the Turner College's MBA program will be generating $61,020 in tuition and fees this fall. Based on the numbers reported in this morning's post , the Turner College's MSOL program will be generating $294,252 in tuition and fees this fall.

The past academic year (i.e., 2025-26) was marked by indicators pointing to troubling trends regarding CSU's enrollment. New information paints a similar picture for the beginning of the 2026-27 academic year. Turner College administrators recently cancelled four fall semester course sections in its MSOL program. These sections, which include MSOL 6135, MSOL 6155, MSOL 6165 and MSOL 6175, were cancelled due to low enrollment. Two of these sections had 10 students enrolled on the date of cancellation, while the remaining two course sections enrolled seven and five students, respectively. This decision establishes a minimum enrollment of at least 11 students, if not more, for fall business courses to be considered populated enough to avoid cancellation. To further consider what these decisions mean for the MSOL program, the table below shows current enrollments by course section for fall 2026. Note that with the above course section cancellations, there are no courses for which multi...

On 6-April of this year we posted a blog about the academic achievements of Turner College student Indigo Pullen . Recently, CSU produced a press release on Pullen's extraordinary scholastic accomplishments. Below is that press release from Averi Morton.  Indigo Pullen is balancing more than most college students ever will.  As a 46S sergeant in the U.S. Army, Pullen serves as a public affairs mass communication specialist, producing news stories, capturing photography and video, and sharing the Army’s mission with audiences around the world.  “One of my favorite aspects of public affairs work is being able to capture authentic moments and humanize experiences people may never personally see,” she said. “I love telling stories that make people feel connected to others and understood.”  In addition to being deployed in the Middle East on active duty, she’s working toward earning two degrees at Columbus State University: a bachelor of business administration in entrep...

Turner College alum Mat Edmunds has been named the new Director of Graduate Admissions for the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Edmunds, who earned an MSOL degree from the Turner College in 2019, has spent the past six  years as the Director of Graduate Admissions for the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business at Mercer University. Congratulations to Mat on this phenomenal professional achievement.

Turner College professor of finance Uma Sridharan is completing her last semester on the faculty at CSU. Sridharan joined the Turner College (as Chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance) about 10 years ago from Lander University. She won the 2023 Turner College Online Teaching Award, while, four years earlier (in 2019), she received CSU's Educator of the Year Award. Over the course of her academic career, Sridharan published research in Financial Management , Financial Review , International Journal of Auditing and Supply Chain Management , all classified as A-level journal outlets. She closes her academic career with 675 Google Scholar citations, a number that will continue to climb in the years to come. Turner Business congratulates Sridharan on her retirement and wishes her the best going forward.

CSU alum Brett Reichert enrolled in the Turner College's MSOL program in 2013 as an Aide-de-Camp Infantry Commandant in the U.S. Army and a graduate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Kentucky. He completed the degree requirements for the MSOL degree in 2014 and three years later, in 2017, began pursuit of a master's degree in policy management at Georgetown University. During this period, he rose to Aide-de-Camp Deputy Commanding General, Regional Command East in Afghanistan, and then over to Company Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. After completing the master's degree program at Georgetown University, Reichert moved to a staff position in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later to Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army. Prior to entering Cornell University, he served as a Brigade Executive Officer in the 4th Infantry Division. Reichert's most recent professional experience is Battalion Commander in...