Rate My Professor Tyler Yu

Dr. Tyler Yu serves as Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Business at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), contributing to its Business & Economics programs. A first-generation immigrant from Dalian, China, he earned his doctorate in agricultural economics from Mississippi State University and a master’s degree in accounting from Kennesaw State University. He also holds a certificate in the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business’ (AACSB) Leading in the Academic Enterprise Series and a certificate of achievement in Academic Assessment from Harvard University. With over 20 years of university-level teaching experience, primarily as a tenured full professor at Mercer University from 1990 to 2006, Dr. Yu joined GGC as a charter faculty member in 2006 upon the college's opening. In this role, he has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses, including principles and intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics, international economics, quantitative analysis and methods, business statistics, multivariate applied business statistics, financial accounting, managerial accounting, and cost accounting. At the graduate level, his courses have encompassed managerial economics, operations management, decision theory, and international economics. At GGC, he has specifically instructed macroeconomics, international economics and finance, financial and managerial accounting, business statistics, applied quantitative analysis, and special topics.