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IIMs placement to take place early – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:18:43 +0000

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Ahmedabad : IIM-A students are burning the midnight oil and cleaning their suits these days. And, with a good reason too. Their placements have suddenly shifted ahead of schedule.

First it was IIM-C and now IIM-A and IIM-B have followed suit. Placements are suddenly so much nearer for students of three premier B-schools. Advanced dates of final placements for batches passing out in 2009 with recession in backdrop has become a favourite topic for chatting among student community.

With many recruiters visiting all three IIM campuses, there is a race to grab attention at the earliest, with a hope to place as many students as possible.

IIM-C started with its final placement week from February 21. IIM-A has declared final placements commencing from February 25 and IIM-B will follow from February 27. In 2008, placement season was initiated by IIM-B on March 4, IIM-A following it on March 6 and finally IIM-C commencing from March 8.

Professor Saral Mukherjee, faculty in-charge of placement at IIM-A said, “All three institutes decide on placement dates independently. And, placement dates of three campuses keep on shuffling and there is no set pattern.”

However, a student on campus opined, “Advanced IIM-C placement dates became a topic of discussion on all campuses. Anything like this at this point in time becomes a matter of concern as the uncertainty rises. A number of recruiters go to all three campuses. If they feel students of IIM-C can be accepted for the same profiles at a lower salary, why wouldn’t they recruit them, leaving lesser opportunities for us.”

The decision of advancing placement dates for IIM-A also seems like a recent decision because official website of the institute still says that pre-processes by companies and final interviews will take place in March, 2009.

Professor Mukherjee added, “IIM-A has recruiters who come exclusively to this institute. There are recruiters who go to all three but they know the quality that IIM-A offers, so it won’t affect us.”

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Now, SBI more valuable than Citibank in m-cap – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:05:23 +0000

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NEW DELHI: The US financial crisis

has hit the valuation of its banks. Citigroup

, one of the largest banks in the world, with assets worth $1.95 trillion or RS 9,72,075 crore, now values less than the State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest bank.

n Monday, at the time this newspaper was going to press, the market capitalisation of Citigroup was Rs 57,328 crore as against Rs 66,449 crore of SBI (based on closing share price on Friday). The Indian stock market

was closed on Monday.

Citigroup is facing one of the worst crisis in its recent history. Its share price on Friday fell by 93% to $1.95 from a 52-week high of $27.35 on April 28, 2008. In 2007, the company’s share price had gone up to around $65. On Monday, it recovered marginally to quote at around $2.1 per share.

Share prices of other banks like Bank of America fell 94% to $2.53 on Friday, JP Morgan Chase by 65% to $17.70 and Goldman Sachs by 58% to $84.59% from their respective 52-week highs. In 2008, Citigroup suffered a loss of over Rs 80,000 crore. Against this, SBI earned a net profit of Rs 4,700 crore in April-December 2008 — first nine months of the current financial year.

Despite the fact that Citigroup’s tier-I capital adequacy ratio is at 11.9% of total performing assets, which is one of the best in the world, the bank is facing tough times due to its exposure to doubtful assets. US government is planning to hike stake in the bank to regain confidence of investors and customers. There are speculations that the bank might get nationalized.

US government had infused $45 billion in Citigroup under the troubled asset relief programme, besides extending $300 billion guarantee for assets. Against this, in the present financial crisis, SBI has emerged even stronger than earlier. Its deposits and assets base increased faster than that of the Indian banking industry.

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Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/Now-SBI-more-valuable-than-Citibank/articleshow/4179797.cms

IIM-C misses Wall Street recruiters this year – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:58:01 +0000

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KOLKATA: The economic crisis has taken its toll on campus recruitment

as well with the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC), finding wall street recruiters missing this year.

Sources in IIMC said the highest pay packet offering merchant bankers from the Wall Street were missing in this year of final recruitment season as most of the renowned companies were either out of business or in bad shape.

“However, we are expecting a few merchant bankers from India and other countries to recruit finance professionals from this campus,” the sources said.

IIMC categories companies depending on their salary offers and reputations and among that slot zero is treated as the most prestigious.

The recruitment began from Saturday and it will continue till February 24 and the second phase will resume from March 3 for two to three days. The recruitment date which has been preponed by two weeks has 265 students registered.

When asked for comments, IIMC officials said the details could only be provided after the campus recruitment process was over.

Sources said during the last three years, merchant bankers like Lehman Brothers and Merill Lynch were the most sought after companies for their highest pay packets.

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Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News-By-Industry/Jobs/IIM-C-misses-Wall-Street-recruiters-this-year/articleshow/4170601.cms

Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:18:34 +0000

PROGRAM BASICS

Weatherhead School of Management

10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland , Ohio 44106-7235

Program Web site:

http://weatherhead.case.edu/mba

Status:

Private Institution

Program e-mail address:

bizadmission@case.edu

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Years in which the following programs were founded:

Full-time MBA: 1976
Part-time MBA : 1925
Undergraduate business program: 1929
Executive MBA: 1979
Executive Education (non-degree): 1974
PhD program: 1953

PROGRAM COSTS

Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

Resident : $ 70,666
Nonresident : $ 70,666
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $ 38,874
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $ 38,874

PROGRAM LENGTH

Full-time program (months):

ENROLLMENT

Graduate business school enrollment

Total graduate business school: 816
Full-time MBA: 163
Part-time MBA: 286
Executive MBA: 55

PhD program: 24
Doctorate of Business Administration: 65
MS: 223

Undergraduate business school enrollment

283

Graduate degree programs:

Master of Accounting

Master of Finance

Other graduate degree programs:

Master of Science Supply Chain; Master of Science Operations Research; Master in Positive Organizational Development; Master in Non-Profit Organization

ADMISSIONS

Application Deadlines

December 1 January 15 March 1

Does the program have rolling admissions?

Yes

Is proficiency in English required for admission?

Yes

Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required?

Yes

Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

IELTS

TOEFL Computer Based

TOEFL Internet Based Test

TOEFL Paper-based Test

Other: N/A

Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs:

600

Relative importance: Application Elements

GMAT Score:

Important

Resume/Work Experience:

Very Important

Application Essays:

Important

Interviews:

Very Important

Recommendations:

Considered

Undergraduate Transcripts:

Important

APPLICANTS

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:

401

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class:

44 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class:

43 %

Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years:

0 %

Percentage of this year’s reapplicants accepted:

0 %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied:

Applicant interviews are:

Required

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

67 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

APPLICANT POOL

International applications received:

73 %

Applications from women received:

31 %

Mean base salary forgone:

$ 38,592

Median base salary forgone:

$ 34,500

CLASS PROFILE

Full-time students in newest entering class (2008-2009) that are:

Female: 37 %
International: 46 %
Married: 20 %

Ethnicity/US Students in Program

African American: 12 %
Asian American: 7 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 10 %
Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0 %
Native American: 0 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 63 %
Chose not to report: 5 %
Other: 3 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 1 %
Asia: 38 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 5 %
North America: 55 %
Western Europe: 1 %

Entering North American citizens by region:

Northeast: 5 %
Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
South: 12 %
Southwest: 2 %
Midwest : 64 %
West: 15 %

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:

Median months of work experience of newest entering class:

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

From: 0
To: 120

Median age of entering class:

Mean age of entering class:

FINANCIAL AID

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through:

Central financial aid office at the university

Full-time MBAs applied for financial aid for the current academic year:

100 %

Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid through school:

100 %

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

academic merit

Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:

How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?

As part of the admissions application

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?

GMAT

Applicants required to take the GMAT?

Yes

Mean : 606
Median: 630

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:

From: 490
To: 710

CLASS OFFERINGS

Average students in a full-time MBA core class:

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class:

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2008:

Identifying Design Opportunities
Sustainable Value and Social Entrepreneurship
Ames Advanced Business Plan Seminar
Commercialization and Intellectual Property Management

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:

2001

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Finance

Health Care Administration

Marketing

Operations Management

Organizational Behavior

Strategy

Supply Chain Management

Other: Non-profit Management

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

MBA/JD (Law)

MBA/MD (Medicine)

MBA/MSIM (Information Management)

MBA/MSM (Management)

Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?

Yes

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

105

Full-time faculty

Tenured: 40
Non-Tenured: 31

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty

Non-Tenured: 34

Women on Faculty

Tenured: 5
Non-Tenured: 8

Minority Faculty

Tenured: 10
Non-Tenured: 13

International Faculty

Tenured: 2
Non-Tenured: 7

Faculty with PhDs

Tenured: 40
Non-Tenured: 24

STUDENT LIFE

Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Biotech/Health care

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Information Technology

Manufacturing

Marketing

VC/ Private Equity

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Black MBA Association

Hispanic Student Organization

Wine

Women in MBA

Other

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods used

Case study: 20 %
Experiential Learning: 15 %
Lecture: 40 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Project: 20 %

Requirements for graduation:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties

TECHNOLOGY

Is there a wireless network in main B-school buildings?

Yes

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

many administrative upgrades; flat panel monitors for information; upgraded classroom audio visual equipment; new pc’s in classrooms; new student registration system

Amount spent:

$ 9,300,00

ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

15,941

Active MBA alumni clubs

Countries in which MBA clubs exist

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

9 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 371

Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in past academic year?

Business School Endowment

$ 100,329,687

Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?

Yes

Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

University alumni networking site:

http://case.edu/alumni

Does the B-School have an alumni networking site:

Business school alumni networking site:

http://case.edu/alumni

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 66 %
Graduates not seeking employment: 26 %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 8 %

Of grads not seeking employment: Percentage of graduates not seeking employment who were company-sponsored, or already employed: 35 %
Percentage who were postponing their job search: 30 %
Percentage who were not seeking employment for other reasons: 35 %

Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

Destination: NSH MBA
Month: October
Destination: NB MBA
Month: September
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: International Consortium
Month: November
Destination: Women in Business
Month: October

Primary Source of Job Offer

School-facilitated activities: 35 %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 24 %
No information provided by graduate: 41 %

Companies that recruited second-year MBAs on campus in 2007-08:

Companies that posted full-time job offers for MBAs on the school’s job boards in 2007-08:

122

Job Offers for 2008 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 60 %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 12 %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
Did not report having received a job offer: 28 %

Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:

	Chevron Corp.		1
	Ernst & Young		1
	General Electric		1
	McKinsey & Company		1
	Johnson & Johnson		1
	3M		1

	Cleveland Clinic Foundation		1
	American Greetings Corporation		1
	University Hospitals of Cleveland		1
	Alcoa Engineered Products		1
	Jones Day		1
	KeyCorp		1
	National City Corporation		1
	Lubrizol Corporation		1

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:

23 %

Mean and median base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $ 84,671
Median base salary for most recent graduates: $ 75,750
Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 11,071
Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 10,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 14,496
Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 13,989

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 14 %
Finance/Accounting: 10 %
General Management: 3 %
Human Resources: 3 %
Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 10 %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 10 %
Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 7 %
Other: 41 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Consulting: 28 %
Consumer Products: 3 %
Financial Services: 14 %
Manufacturing: 24 %
Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health care Products: 8 %
Technology: 3 %
Other: 17 %

Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Asia: 3 %
North America: 97 %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Northeast: 10 %
South: 4 %
Southwest: 4 %
Midwest: 82 %

Companies that recruited MBAs for internships on campus in 2007-08:

Companies that posted internships for MBAs on school job boards in 2007-08:

131

Top Companies – Internships:

	3M		1
	Deloitte Touche Tomatsu		1
	McKinsey & Company		1

	Cleveland Clinic Foundation		3
	Invacare		2
	Longbow Research		2
	University Hospitals of Cleveland		2
	American Greetings Corporation		1
	Caterpillar, Inc.		1
	Progressive Insurance		1
	Rockwell Automation		1

Internships awarded that are paid:

100 %

Mean and median intern compensation per week:

Mean : 877
Median: 801

Average internship length in weeks:

SCHOOL COMMENTS

School Comments:

N/A

I feel like I learned so much more through hands-on experiences than I had planned. As a career-changer, I think that I gained quite a bit of experience outside of the coursework. –Marketing

The MBA program at the Weatherhead School of Management is heavily teamwork-oriented and the program is strongly focused on preparing its MBA students to become leaders in this evolving global economy.

The program touts as being strong in health system management which was one of the reasons I choose to attend the school, but it was far from satisfactory. There were only two faculty at the business school who gave health care-related courses, but they were not attuned to recent trends in health care. –Entrepreneurship

Career services was inconsistent and provided minimal assistance in both my internship and job search. The program offered little support for non-business degree undergraduates in transitioning to new careers. –Consulting

I found Weatherhead allows students to take on a huge role in the development of the student life and professional development. It is a self starter program, which is the primary characteristic of any successful business-person.–Operations

The Weatherhead MBA is not for everyone. With a large international percentage and a more relaxed atmosphere, someone looking for an edgier experience would probably not like it.–Marketing

Information Technology I felt that this program had outstanding teachers who were really able to provide great education. Futhermore, I felt that the other students were talented enough that I was able to learn a great deal from them. I don’t feel the MBA is right for everyone, or that the Weatherhead degree is the right MBA for everyone, but for someone looking for a smaller program, with lots of interaction with teachers and students, this is a great school!–Information Technology

I feel I did receive value in my education. –Human Resources

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Source: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/full_time_mba_profiles/casewestern.html

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University of California-Davis Graduate School of Management – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:08:06 +0000

PROGRAM BASICS

Graduate School of Management

1 Shields Ave
AOB IV
Davis , California 95616

Program Web site:

http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu

Status:

Public Institution

Program e-mail address:

admissions@gsm.ucdavis.edu

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Years in which the following programs were founded:

Full-time MBA: 1981
Part-time MBA : 1994

PROGRAM COSTS

Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

Resident : $ 49,300
Nonresident : $ 73,790
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $ 15,563
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $ 15,563

PROGRAM LENGTH

Full-time program (months):

ENROLLMENT

Graduate business school enrollment

Total graduate business school: 522
Full-time MBA: 120
Part-time MBA: 402

Other graduate degree programs:

N/A

ADMISSIONS

Application Deadlines

November 12 January 14 March 11 May 13

Does the program have rolling admissions?

Yes

Is proficiency in English required for admission?

Yes

Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required?

Yes

Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

IELTS

TOEFL Computer Based

TOEFL Internet Based Test

TOEFL Paper-based Test

Other: 0

Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs:

600

Relative importance: Application Elements

GMAT Score:

Very Important

Resume/Work Experience:

Very Important

Application Essays:

Very Important

Interviews:

Very Important

Recommendations:

Very Important

Undergraduate Transcripts:

Very Important

APPLICANTS

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:

406

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class:

25 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class:

59 %

Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years:

1 %

Percentage of this year’s reapplicants accepted:

40 %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied:

Applicant interviews are:

By invitation only

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

54 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

APPLICANT POOL

Mean base salary forgone:

$ 54,246

Median base salary forgone:

$ 49,000

CLASS PROFILE

Full-time students in newest entering class (2008-2009) that are:

Female: 33 %
International: 23 %
Married: 27 %

Ethnicity/US Students in Program

African American: 2 %
Asian American: 24 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 5 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 65 %
Chose not to report: 4 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 2 %
Asia: 18 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 2 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %

Entering North American citizens by region:

Northeast: 9 %
South: 2 %
West: 89 %

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:

Median months of work experience of newest entering class:

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

From: 12
To: 108

Median age of entering class:

Mean age of entering class:

FINANCIAL AID

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through:

Central financial aid office at the university

Full-time MBAs applied for financial aid for the current academic year:

100 %

Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid through school:

94 %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year:

$ 23,491

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year:

$ 23,000

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

a combination of need and merit

Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:

How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?

all candidates are considered for scholarship

Mean scholarships awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year:

$ 11,911

Percentage of second-year students receiving the same or more amount of money in their second year of study:

55 %

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?

Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program:

$ 38,317

GMAT

Applicants required to take the GMAT?

Yes

Mean : 675
Median: 660

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:

From: 620
To: 740

CLASS OFFERINGS

Average students in a full-time MBA core class:

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class:

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2008:

Greening Business Strategy Dynamics
Business Database and Database Marketing
Customer Relationship Management
Advanced Corporate Finance
Economics of Information and Network Industries

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:

2003

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Accounting

Corporate Social Responsibility

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

Human Resource Management

Management Information Systems

Manufacturing and Technology Management

Marketing

Organizational Behavior

Real Estate

Statistics and Operations Research

Strategy

Technology

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

MBA/JD (Law)

MBA/MA (Arts)

MBA/MD (Medicine)

MBA/ME (Engineering)

MBA/MS (Science)

MBA/MSEE (Electrical Engineering)

MBA/MSME (Mechanical Engineering)

MBA/MSN (Nursing)

MBA/PhD

Other

Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

Full-time faculty

Tenured: 17
Non-Tenured: 12

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 22

Women on Faculty

Tenured: 4
Non-Tenured: 9

Minority Faculty

Tenured: 5
Non-Tenured: 3

International Faculty

Tenured: 1
Non-Tenured: 6

Faculty with PhDs

Tenured: 17
Non-Tenured: 12

Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:

14 %

STUDENT LIFE

Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Biotech/Health care

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Marketing

Nonprofit

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

International Club

Partners/Family

Volunteer

Wine

Women in MBA

Other

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods used

Case study: 30 %
Distance Learning: 0 %
Experiential Learning: 10 %
Lecture: 30 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Project: 15 %
Other: 10 %

Requirements for graduation:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

TECHNOLOGY

Is there a wireless network in main B-school buildings?

Yes

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

Our main technological improvements have been centered on classroom technology and network server upgrades. Our classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art projectors and computer systems. Our network environment was re-configured entirely in 06-07 to ensure network stability, reliability and security.

Amount spent:

$ 749600

ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

2,290

Active MBA alumni clubs

Countries in which MBA clubs exist

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

11 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 230

Median gift from MBA alumni

$ 100

Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in past academic year?

Yes

Business School Endowment

$ 6,504,967

Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?

Yes

Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

University alumni networking site:

http://www.incircle.ucdavis-alumni.com

Does the B-School have an alumni networking site:

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

https://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/Alumni/Directory/

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 60 %
Graduates not seeking employment: 37 %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 3 %

Of grads not seeking employment: Percentage of graduates not seeking employment who were company-sponsored, or already employed: 22 %
Percentage who were continuing their education (after graduation): 44 %
Percentage who were postponing their job search: 17 %
Percentage who were starting their own business(es) : 13 %
Percentage who were not seeking employment for other reasons: 4 %

Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

Destination: Peer to Pier, San Francisco, CA
Month: March
Amount Paid By School: Full
Destination: University of California, International Business Consortium, San Diego, CA
Month: April
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: NSHMBA, Los Angeles, CA
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: Tech Trek, Silicon Valley, CA
Month: November
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: Warren Buffet, Omaha, NE
Month: March
Amount Paid By School: None

Primary Source of Job Offer

School-facilitated activities: 56 %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 44 %

Companies that recruited second-year MBAs on campus in 2007-08:

N/A

Companies that posted full-time job offers for MBAs on the school’s job boards in 2007-08:

N/A

Job Offers for 2008 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 79 %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 11 %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
Did not report having received a job offer: 10 %

Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:

	Hewlett-Packard		1
	Intel		1
	KPMG LLP		1
	PricewaterhouseCoopers		1
	Wells Fargo		1

	Agilent Technologies		3
	AT&T		2
	Gartner Consulting		2
	Kaiser Permanente		2
	Abbott Labs		1
	California Public Utilities Commission		1
	CalSTERS		1
	SAP		1

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:

52 %

Mean and median base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $ 87,370
Median base salary for most recent graduates: $ 86,000
Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 12,310
Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 10,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 12,692
Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 10,000

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 18 %
Finance/Accounting: 37 %
General Management: 9 %
Human Resources: 0 %
Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 30 %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 0 %
Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 0 %
Other: 6 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Government (Federal, State, Local, Military): 9 %
Consulting: 19 %
Consumer Products: 3 %
Financial Services: 12 %
Manufacturing: 12 %
Media/Entertainment: 6 %
Non-Profit: 0 %
Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health care Products: 12 %
Real Estate: 0 %
Technology: 24 %
Other: 0 %

Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Africa: 0 %
Asia: 3 %
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 0 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 6 %
Middle East: 0 %
North America: 91 %
Oceana: 0 %
Western Europe: 0 %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Northeast: 3 %
Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
South: 0 %
Southwest: 0 %
Midwest: 3 %
West: 94 %
Possessions and territories: 0 %
Canada: 0 %

Companies that recruited MBAs for internships on campus in 2007-08:

N/A

Companies that posted internships for MBAs on school job boards in 2007-08:

N/A

Top Companies – Internships:

	Ernst & Young		3
	Wells Fargo		2
	Hewlett-Packard		1
	KPMG LLP		1
	Intel		1

	Agilent Technologies		3
	Blue Shield		3
	Kaiser Permanente		2
	McKesson Corp		2
	Mervyns		2
	CalPERS		2
	AT&T		1
	Dole		1

Internships awarded that are paid:

96 %

Mean : N/A Median: N/A

Average internship length in weeks:

SCHOOL COMMENTS

School Comments:

N/A

Davis is a community. You have to wear many hats and no one will baby you. The school definitely exudes a feeling that if you want to see change, you will have to be its agent. –Marketing

The small size of the school is not an asset as it limits the number of companies that recruit at the GSM, it limits the number of alumni, it forces the GSM to rely on “visiting” professors to teach courses, and curriculum (basic strategy frameworks such as Porter’s Five Forces, SWOT analysis, PEST, Resource Based View, Boston Consulting Matrix) are not taught).

The great thing about talking to alums is that they all love their jobs. They really really love their jobs. That is the best purpose of the MBA to help students figure out what they want to do and where they want to be and how to do that. –Marketing

The GSM places more of an emphasis on its part-time “Working Professional” than its full-time MBA program because it brings in more money for the school.

The UC Davis program gives a lot of room for the individuality of each student to express itself. Although many people wanted typical MBA jobs, we all helped each other find opportunities that were outside the mainstream. A lot of us have passion for art, wine, movies, events, sports and we all have worked very hard to select opportunities that represent those passions. –Marketing

I think that the huge advantage that Davis has over other schools is the quality of the professors. The professors are generally down to earth and almost all of them make an attempt to get to know their students. Alumni, even those many years removed, still ask me about all of the professors I’ve had and the classes that they teach. Another great thing about the school is its connections to the wine industry.–Marketing

I thought the program was good, although some of the classes needed restructuring or different content.–Information Technology

It depends on what each individual is looking for in terms of experience, access and class size. If you perform well in a collaborative, team oriented environment with tremendous access to wonderful faculty – then by all means I would encourage anyone to attend Davis. Davis tends to be more of a regional school – well received in California, but less known on the East Coast, so that needs to be taken into consideration.–Finance

I chose to pursue a degree at Davis because of its rural surroundings. I did not want to live in a city and I wanted to go to a UC to save money. With a 740 GMAT, I had many options. I ultimately chose Davis because I march to the beat of a different drummer. Going to a larger school with a more established name did not appeal to me. My needs were met at Davis in terms of educational quality and faculty availibility. I enjoyed my experience at Davis and I feel that the only limits my Davis education have put on me are those that are self imposed. Otherwise, I feel that the sky is the limit for me. I would leave it to my friends to decide their own fate, but would encourage them to find out more about what Davis has to offer.–Finance

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Source: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/full_time_mba_profiles/ucdavis.html

University at Buffalo School of Management – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:59:06 +0000

PROGRAM BASICS

School of Management

203 Alfiero Center
Buffalo , New York 14260

Program Web site:

http://mgt.buffalo.edu/programs/mba

Status:

Public Institution

Program e-mail address:

som-apps@buffalo.edu

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Years in which the following programs were founded:

Full-time MBA: 1931
Part-time MBA : 1963
Undergraduate business program: 1923
Executive MBA: 1994
PhD program: 1949

PROGRAM COSTS

Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

Resident : $ 18,156
Nonresident : $ 26,736
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $ 24,523
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $ 28,763

PROGRAM LENGTH

Full-time program (months):

ENROLLMENT

Graduate business school enrollment

Total graduate business school: 717
Full-time MBA: 176
Part-time MBA: 192
Distance MBA: 0
Executive MBA: 61

PhD program: 46
MS: 93
MSA: 13
Other: 136

Undergraduate business school enrollment

3,271

Graduate degree programs:

Master of Accounting

Master of Electronic Commerce/Information Systems

Master of Finance

Other graduate degree programs:

MS – Supply Chains and Operations Management

ADMISSIONS

Application Deadlines

11/17/08 2/1/09 3/2/09 5/11/09

Does the program have rolling admissions?

Yes

Is proficiency in English required for admission?

Yes

Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required?

Yes

Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

IELTS

TOEFL Internet Based Test

Other: N/A

Relative importance: Application Elements

GMAT Score:

Very Important

Resume/Work Experience:

Important

Application Essays:

Very Important

Interviews:

Very Important

Recommendations:

Very Important

Undergraduate Transcripts:

Very Important

APPLICANTS

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:

325

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class:

47 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class:

56 %

Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years:

3 %

Percentage of this year’s reapplicants accepted:

33 %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied:

Applicant interviews are:

By invitation only

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

100 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

APPLICANT POOL

International applications received:

62 %

Applications from women received:

37 %

CLASS PROFILE

Full-time students in newest entering class (2008-2009) that are:

Female: 30 %
International: 30 %

Ethnicity/US Students in Program

African American: 1 %
Asian American: 13 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
Multiethnic/Multiracial : 1 %
Native American: 0 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 85 %
Chose not to report: 0 %
Other: 0 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 0 %
Asia: 22 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 5 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
Middle East: 0 %
North America: 73 %
Oceania : 0 %
Western Europe: 0 %
Percentage of students with dual citizenship: 0 %

Entering North American citizens by region:

Northeast: 98 %
Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
South: 1 %
Southwest: 0 %
Midwest : 0 %
West: 0 %
Possessions and territories: 0 %

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:

Median months of work experience of newest entering class:

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

From: 0
To: 61

Median age of entering class:

Mean age of entering class:

FINANCIAL AID

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through:

Central financial aid office at the university

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

a combination of need and merit

Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:

How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?

all candidates are considered for scholarship

Mean scholarships awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year:

$ 7,100

Percentage of second-year students receiving the same or more amount of money in their second year of study:

100 %

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?

GMAT

Applicants required to take the GMAT?

Yes

Mean : 619
Median: 610

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:

From: 550
To: 680

CLASS OFFERINGS

Average students in a full-time MBA core class:

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class:

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2008:

Purchasing and Supply Management
Logistics and Distribution Management
Advanced Topics in Workforce Management
Management of Globally Distributed Systems
Global info Tech Infrastructure Management

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:

2007

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Accounting

Consulting

E-commerce

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Human Resource Management

International Business

Management Information Systems

Marketing

Operations Management

Supply Chain Management

Other: Information Assurance, Global Services & Supply Mgt

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

MBA/JD (Law)

MBA/March (Architecture)

MBA/MD (Medicine)

Other

Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

Full-time faculty

Tenured: 23
Non-Tenured: 42

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 34

Women on Faculty

Tenured: 3
Non-Tenured: 16

Minority Faculty

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 2

International Faculty

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 11

Faculty with PhDs

Tenured: 26
Non-Tenured: 29

Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:

9 %

Faculty who have owned their own business:

8 %

STUDENT LIFE

Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Finance

High Tech

Human Resources

Information Technology

Marketing

Other

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods used

Case study: 30 %
Distance Learning: 0 %
Experiential Learning: 10 %
Lecture: 40 %
Simulations: 10 %
Team Project: 10 %
Other: 0 %

Requirements for graduation:

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

Other

Additional graduation requirements:

Internship required if no full time work experience

TECHNOLOGY

Is there a wireless network in main B-school buildings?

Yes

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

Installed thirty-one computers with flat panel monitors in labs. Upgraded ceiling projectors in classrooms and computers in seven classroom podiums. Built a new multi-functional technology classroom designed to digitally capture lectures made available via streaming media. Room is also capable of supporting video conferencing. Launched new Web site in summer of 2008 designed to provide audience based navigation. A new Voice over IP telephone system was installed for the administrative staff, which should provide better support to the students and faculty.

Amount spent:

$ 350,000

ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

8,741

Active MBA alumni clubs

Countries in which MBA clubs exist

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

11 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 2,103

Median gift from MBA alumni

$ 50

Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in past academic year?

Business School Endowment

$ 15,421,904

Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?

Yes

Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

University alumni networking site:

http://www.alumni.buffalo.edu/

Does the B-School have an alumni networking site:

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 75 %
Graduates not seeking employment: 14 %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 11 %

Of grads not seeking employment: Percentage of graduates not seeking employment who were company-sponsored, or already employed: 6 %
Percentage who were continuing their education (after graduation): 19 %
Percentage who were postponing their job search: 25 %
Percentage who were starting their own business(es) : 6 %
Percentage who were not seeking employment for other reasons: 44 %

Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

Destination: New York City (Network New York Event)
Month: January
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: Orlando, FL (International MBA/MS Conference)
Month: November
Amount Paid By School: None
Destination: Orlando, FL (National Black MBA Conference)
Month: September
Amount Paid By School: None
Destination: Houston, TX (NSHMBA Conference)
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: None

Primary Source of Job Offer

School-facilitated activities: 68 %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 32 %
No information provided by graduate: 0 %

Job Offers for 2008 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 54 %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 24 %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 17 %
Did not report having received a job offer: 21 %

Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:

	International Bus. Machines		4
	Deloitte Touche Tomatsu		3
	Citigroup Inc.		2
	General Mills		1
	Intel		1
	Xerox		1
	PricewaterhouseCoopers		2

	Corning Inc		3
	Freed Maxick		3
	ToysRUs		3
	Capital One		2
	Fisher-Price		2
	M&T Bank		2
	Moog		2
	Rich Products		2

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:

20 %

Mean and median base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $ 55,276
Median base salary for most recent graduates: $ 55,000
Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 4,769
Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 3,000

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 8 %
Finance/Accounting: 44 %
General Management: 6 %
Human Resources: 2 %
Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 17 %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 8 %
Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 15 %
Other: 0 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Government (Federal, State, Local, Military): 3 %
Consulting: 2 %
Consumer Products: 14 %
Financial Services: 35 %
Manufacturing: 21 %
Media/Entertainment: 0 %
Non-Profit: 0 %
Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health care Products: 7 %
Real Estate: 0 %
Technology: 15 %
Other: 1 %

Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Africa: 0 %
Asia: 6 %
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 2 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
Middle East: 0 %
North America: 92 %
Oceana: 0 %
Western Europe: 0 %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Northeast: 88 %
Mid-Atlantic: 5 %
South: 2 %
Southwest: 1 %
Midwest: 2 %
West: 2 %
Possessions and territories: 0 %
Canada: 0 %

Top Companies – Internships:

Mean :
N/A Median: N/A

SCHOOL COMMENTS

School Comments:

N/A

My MBA experience at the University at Buffalo has been amazing. The faculty are always available for outside help. The program is structured to faciliate teamwork and builds your interpersonal skills. There are many diverse activities that make the program well rounded and options include overseas trips, study abroad, a joint program with the Levin Institute in NYC, executive speaker series, case competitions, networking events, country forums, community service and employer fairs, and numerous other activities which take this program to the next level. — Accounting

Many of the courses are traditional undergrad lecture- and textbook-based with little class participation. Approximately one-third of the students are not professional in terms of coming to class prepared and doing their share in group work. –Accounting

The only drawback to Buffalo’s MBA program is the lack of quality recruiters from top companies visiting campus. I’m not sure if that is a product of a poor career services Office or because Fortune 500 companies tend not to recruit anywhere other than Harvard or Wharton.

Buffalo should diversify its domestic students — most of them are from Western New York and a big portion of them are without work experience. –Marketing

The MBA Program academic-wise was excellent. The courses are good and the professors are not less than any top business school. The only thing this business school lacks is the placement of MBA grads.–Finance

The education and networking brought about the results I wanted. I would recommend this school to others with similar goals.–Investment Banking

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Boston College Carroll School of Management – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:02:07 +0000

PROGRAM BASICS

Carroll School of Management

Fulton Hall, Room 320
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill , Massachusetts 02467

Program Web site:

http://www.bc.edu/mba

Status:

Private Institution

Program e-mail address:

bcmba@bc.edu

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Years in which the following programs were founded:

Full-time MBA: 1965
Part-time MBA : 1957
Undergraduate business program: 1938
PhD program: 1990

PROGRAM COSTS

Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

Resident : $ 66,604
Nonresident : $ 66,604
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $ 55,350
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $ 55,350

PROGRAM LENGTH

Full-time program (months):

ENROLLMENT

Graduate business school enrollment

Total graduate business school: 925
Full-time MBA: 202
Part-time MBA: 495
Distance MBA: 0
Executive MBA: 0

PhD program: 47
Doctorate of Business Administration: 0
MS: 96
MSA: 85
Other: 0

Undergraduate business school enrollment

1,948

Graduate degree programs:

Master of Accounting

Master of Finance

Other graduate degree programs:

N/A

ADMISSIONS

Application Deadlines

11/15/08 1/15/09 3/15/09 4/15/09

Does the program have rolling admissions?

Is proficiency in English required for admission?

Yes

Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required?

Yes

Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

TOEFL Computer Based

TOEFL Internet Based Test

TOEFL Paper-based Test

Other: N/A

Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs:

600

Relative importance: Application Elements

GMAT Score:

Very Important

Resume/Work Experience:

Very Important

Application Essays:

Very Important

Interviews:

Important

Recommendations:

Very Important

Undergraduate Transcripts:

Very Important

APPLICANTS

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:

956

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class:

28 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class:

38 %

Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years:

1.7 %

Percentage of this year’s reapplicants accepted:

44 %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

290

Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied:

Applicant interviews are:

Recommended

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

60 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

96 %

APPLICANT POOL

International applications received:

52 %

Applications from women received:

37 %

Mean base salary forgone:

$ 60,028

Median base salary forgone:

$ 57,870

CLASS PROFILE

Full-time students in newest entering class (2008-2009) that are:

Female: 36 %
International: 20 %

Ethnicity/US Students in Program

African American: 1 %
Asian American: 9 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 2.5 %
Multiethnic/Multiracial : 2.5 %
Native American: 0 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 74 %
Chose not to report: 7 %
Other: 4 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 0 %
Asia: 18 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 0 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 %
Middle East: 0 %
North America: 75 %
Oceania : 0 %
Western Europe: 4 %
Percentage of students with dual citizenship: 5 %

Entering North American citizens by region:

Northeast: 66 %
Mid-Atlantic: 5 %
South: 4 %
Southwest: 4 %
Midwest : 7 %
West: 14 %
Possessions and territories: 0 %

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:

Median months of work experience of newest entering class:

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

From: 25
To: 84

Median age of entering class:

Mean age of entering class:

FINANCIAL AID

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through:

Central financial aid office at the university

Full-time MBAs applied for financial aid for the current academic year:

79 %

Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid through school:

62 %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year:

$ 33,492

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year:

$ 32,470

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

academic merit

Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:

How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?

As part of the admissions application

Mean scholarships awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year:

$ 15,352

Percentage of second-year students receiving the same or more amount of money in their second year of study:

58 %

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?

Only to domestic students

If so, what is the maximum amount a student can borrow per year?

$ 55,350

Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program:

$ 52,250

GMAT

Applicants required to take the GMAT?

Yes

Mean : 661
Median: 660

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:

From: 600
To: 720

CLASS OFFERINGS

Average students in a full-time MBA core class:

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class:

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2008:

Contemporary Topics in Corporate Reporting
Nonprofit Management Sports Marketing
Global Financial Markets Strategic Deal Making
Small Business Management Strategy
Money & Capital Markets

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:

2006

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Accounting

Consulting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

International Business

Leadership

Management Information Systems

Manufacturing and Technology Management

Marketing

Operations Management

Organizational Behavior

Strategy

Technology

Other: Asset Management, Fin Report & Control, Competitive Service Delivery, Marketing Infomatics, Product & Brand Management, Tailored Specialties

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

MBA/JD (Law)

MBA/MA (Arts)

MBA/MSN (Nursing)

MBA/PhD

Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

Full-time faculty

Tenured: 58
Non-Tenured: 32

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 14

Women on Faculty

Tenured: 20
Non-Tenured: 11

Minority Faculty

Tenured: 6
Non-Tenured: 5

International Faculty

Faculty with PhDs

Tenured: 58
Non-Tenured: 27

STUDENT LIFE

Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Biotech/Health care

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

Entrepreneurship

Environmental

Finance

Information Technology

Marketing

Media & Entertainment

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Black MBA Association

International Club

Partners/Family

Volunteer

Women in MBA

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods used

Case study: 40 %
Distance Learning: 0 %
Experiential Learning: 10 %
Lecture: 25 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Project: 20 %
Other: 0 %

Requirements for graduation:

Students must write a complete business plan

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties

Other

Additional graduation requirements:

Students must complete 20 hours of community service.

TECHNOLOGY

Is there a wireless network in main B-school buildings?

Yes

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

All computers in the Carroll School of Management have been replaced and upgraded. Flat screen monitors installed in all study/breakout rooms. New secure wireless network added to the existing wireless network. State-of-the art projection audio visual equipment installed in all case classroom.

The networking strength of Boston College cannot be overstated. The small size of the full time program provides a great sense of camraderie with faculty and staff. –Finance

BC infuses ethics in its teaching within all function areas, from core classes to electives. You can’t escape it, nor should you, as employers value this type of individual. –Marketing

BC’s weakness is its building. It’s OK, but to compete with top 25 programs, it needs a building that has more breakout rooms, late-night study areas, and can support a larger program by having bigger lecture halls. –Marketing

Having a small program is a serious limitation when it comes to recruiters coming to campus — many do not, in part because the student pool is so small compared to other schools. The upside is that you get to know your classmates well and form a great network. –Finance

BC’s program is great for people going into finance and who want to build strong social networks. The focus is on academics as well as on building networks and having fun. I loved the challenging level of the program, and I also met my future husband and some terrific friends, gained a superior network of colleagues with whom I hope to do business in the future and had a blast during my 2 years there.–Investment Banking

Boston College is a great school and both the students and faculty are pretty good. The problem is that it is a regional business school. Students interested in being on the West Coast or even New York will have a harder time making connections and receiving job offers. The size of the school also limits recruiter interest. Students that know what they want to do, especially if it is in the Northeast will do very well.–Marketing

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University of Arizona Eller Graduate School of Management – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:18:17 +0000

PROGRAM BASICS

Full-Time MBA

Eller College of Management

McClelland Hall, Room 210
1130 E. Helen Street, P.O. Box 210108
Tucson , Arizona 85721-0108

Program Web site:

http://www.ellermba.arizona.edu/fulltime/

Status:

Public Institution

Program e-mail address:

mba_admissions@eller.arizona.edu

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Years in which the following programs were founded:

Full-time MBA: 1953
Part-time MBA : 1996
Undergraduate business program: 1943
Executive MBA: 2005
Executive Education (non-degree): 2005
PhD program: 1966

PROGRAM COSTS

Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

Resident : $ 31,668
Nonresident : $ 56,942
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $ 29,034
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $ 41,671

PROGRAM LENGTH

Full-time program (months):

ENROLLMENT

Graduate business school enrollment

Total graduate business school: 682
Full-time MBA: 139
Part-time MBA: 84
Executive MBA: 123

PhD program: 135
Other: 220

Undergraduate business school enrollment

5,098

Graduate degree programs:

Master of Accounting

Master of Electronic Commerce/Information Systems

Master of Finance

Other graduate degree programs:

Master of Public Administration (MPA)

ADMISSIONS

Application Deadlines

November 15 February 15 April 15

Does the program have rolling admissions?

Yes

Is proficiency in English required for admission?

Yes

Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required?

Yes

Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

IELTS

TOEFL Computer Based

TOEFL Internet Based Test

TOEFL Paper-based Test

Other: N/A

Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs:

600

Relative importance: Application Elements

GMAT Score:

Very Important

Resume/Work Experience:

Very Important

Application Essays:

Important

Interviews:

Very Important

Recommendations:

Important

Undergraduate Transcripts:

Important

APPLICANTS

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:

183

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class:

49 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class:

59 %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied:

Applicant interviews are:

Required

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

APPLICANT POOL

International applications received:

46 %

Applications from women received:

28 %

Mean base salary forgone:

$ 33,567

Median base salary forgone:

$ 30,000

CLASS PROFILE

Full-time students in newest entering class (2008-2009) that are:

Female: 27 %
International: 32 %

Ethnicity/US Students in Program

African American: 2 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 3 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 51 %
Chose not to report: 8 %
Other: 5 %

Students from following regions:

Asia: 30 %
North America: 68 %
Western Europe: 2 %

Entering North American citizens by region:

Northeast: 5 %
Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
South: 14 %
Southwest: 49 %
Midwest : 14 %
West: 16 %

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:

Median months of work experience of newest entering class:

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

From: 12
To: 96

Median age of entering class:

Mean age of entering class:

FINANCIAL AID

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through:

Central financial aid office at the university

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

academic merit

Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:

How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?

As part of the admissions application

Mean scholarships awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year:

$ 10,259

Percentage of second-year students receiving the same or more amount of money in their second year of study:

100 %

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?

Yes

If so, what is the maximum amount a student can borrow per year?

$ 20,500

GMAT

Applicants required to take the GMAT?

Yes

Mean : 622
Median: 620

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:

From: 530
To: 700

CLASS OFFERINGS

Average students in a full-time MBA core class:

65`

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class:

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:

170

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2008:

Communication for Consultants
Real Property
Topics in Business and Leadership
Global Economic Development
Relationship Marketing

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:

2008

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Management Information Systems

Marketing

Other: Real Estate Finance; Fixed Income Finance

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

MBA/JD (Law)

MBA/MCS (Computer Science)

MBA/MD (Medicine)

MBA/ME (Engineering)

MBA/Meng (Engineering – Manufacturing Management)

MBA/MIM (International Management)

MBA/MS (Science)

MBA/MSEE (Electrical Engineering)

MBA/MSIE (Industrial Engineering)

MBA/MSIM (Information Management)

MBA/MSME (Mechanical Engineering)

MBA/PhD

Other

Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

151

Full-time faculty

Tenured: 67
Non-Tenured: 52

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 31

Women on Faculty

Tenured: 12
Non-Tenured: 26

Minority Faculty

Tenured: 16
Non-Tenured: 8

International Faculty

Tenured: 9
Non-Tenured: 15

Faculty with PhDs

Tenured: 67
Non-Tenured: 43

STUDENT LIFE

Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

Finance

Information Technology

Marketing

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

International Club

Women in MBA

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods used

Case study: 30 %
Experiential Learning: 15 %
Lecture: 20 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Project: 30 %

Requirements for graduation:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties

Other

Additional graduation requirements:

Completion of bus comms, career dev & crisis comm crses

TECHNOLOGY

Is there a wireless network in main B-school buildings?

Yes

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

- Created electronic Student Management System and Electronic Timesheet system – Installed Mediasite lecture recording capability – Installed SharePoint-based intranet and sharing system – Introduced IP video conference facilities (Polycom) – Converted building wireless to campus-wide system – Upgraded computing lab printers – Upgraded electronic signage software – Added instructional technology to 2 seminar rooms – Installed electronic lock system to offer students 24×7 groupcentric access to computing labs – Added college-wide web development and Google servers – Introduced security cameras to computing labs – Upgraded infrastructure in several graduate student and research spaces – Installed classroom, office and conferencing technology at new executive education facility

Amount spent:

$ 413,000

ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

3,623

Active MBA alumni clubs

Countries in which MBA clubs exist

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

12 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 556

Median gift from MBA alumni

$ 50

Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in past academic year?

Business School Endowment

$ 55,382,028

Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?

Yes

Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

University alumni networking site:

http://www.arizonaalumni.com/

Does the B-School have an alumni networking site:

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/AZAB/

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 66 %
Graduates not seeking employment: 34 %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

Of grads not seeking employment: Percentage of graduates not seeking employment who were company-sponsored, or already employed: 33 %
Percentage who were continuing their education (after graduation): 45 %
Percentage who were starting their own business(es) : 11 %
Percentage who were not seeking employment for other reasons: 11 %

Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

Destination: National Black MBA Association, Washington, DC
Month: September
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSMBA), Atlanta, GA
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: International MBA/Masters Recruiting Forum, Orlando, FL
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: Net Impact North America Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Month: November
Amount Paid By School: Partial
Destination: National Association of Women MBAs, Stamford, CT
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: Partial

Primary Source of Job Offer

School-facilitated activities: 52 %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 48 %

Job Offers for 2008 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 46 %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 14 %
Did not report having received a job offer: 40 %

Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:

	Intel		4
	Deloitte Touche Tomatsu		2
	Google Inc.		1
	Honeywell		1
	Mercer Consulting		1

	Raytheon		2
	Edmund Optics		1
	The Innova Group		1

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:

37 %

Mean and median base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $ 77,376
Median base salary for most recent graduates: $ 76,500
Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 8,608
Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 10,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 9,223
Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 6,000

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 10 %
Finance/Accounting: 24 %
General Management: 9.5 %
Human Resources: 0 %
Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 14 %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 9.5 %
Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 0 %
Other: 33 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Government (Federal, State, Local, Military): 0 %
Consulting: 15 %
Consumer Products: 0 %
Financial Services: 5 %
Manufacturing: 40 %
Media/Entertainment: 0 %
Non-Profit: 0 %
Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health care Products: 0 %
Real Estate: 0 %
Technology: 30 %
Other: 10 %

Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Africa: 0 %
Asia: 0 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
North America: 100 %
Oceana: 0 %
Western Europe: 0 %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Northeast: 5 %
Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
South: 0 %
Southwest: 48 %
Midwest: 4 %
West: 43 %
Possessions and territories: 0 %

Top Companies – Internships:

	Emerson Electric		10
	Intel		3
	Honeywell		1

	Los Alamos National Laboratory		2
	PetSmart, Inc.		2
	University of Arizona		2
	Capital One		1
	Visa International		1

Internships awarded that are paid:

100 %

Mean and median intern compensation per week:

Mean : 829
Median: 866

Average internship length in weeks:

SCHOOL COMMENTS

School Comments:

N/A

The career placement office needs lots of work. Many of the students are not sure what the career placement office really does all day. The program is kind of missing a “community feel.” With a program this small it shouldn’t be that way. –Marketing

Our passionate instructors always gave us useful and valuable teaching materials in order to get us familiar with the critical concepts. In addition, they inspired us to have interactive class discussions, digging into more in-depth knowledge of an important topic. Above all, I would say the learning experience at the Eller MBA program is extremely helpful to me. Investment Banking

The Eller College puts lots of emphasis on the MBA program. They not only give all the resources to the MBA students, but also try to advance the quality of the MBA program by carefully listening to our suggestions for further improvement.–NA

The program is everything you could ask for in terms of a challenging and progressive experience. Eller is a great place to develop yourself as a professional and Tucson has many positive attributes that are beneficial to a full-time graduate student (cost of living, community, climate, etc.) Marketing

The academic of the program is good, but the placement is quite unsatisfactory. –Accounting

It’s this very idea that we’re just data points on a stat chart that made me realize where the school’s priorities were. Adjusting curriculum and professors for greater effectiveness was a step in the right direction. However, to become a school I’d recommend, the administration from top-down needs to review its priorities. Hopefully, the next graduating class will be able to attest to more positive results of all the changes.–NA

The quality of the faculty and the curriculum are the most important factors to consider in your education, but when you add to this an excellent Career development department and a small size class where you can really get to know each other, you got an MBA program that will add a lot in your growth as a professional and as a person.–Marketing

The Eller College of Management was a great place to get an MBA. It was very challenging, but small enough that you get to know your professors and classmates very well.–Finance I learned an extraordinary amount of knowledge within two years from the Eller MBA program. Due to its small size of the program, I was able to connect to everyone in the program and have a great networking even after graduation. I was amazed by the quality of students and faculty in the program. In addition, the MBA office always try to provide all the resources to us as much as they could. I am an international student and I felt like I was respected in any way within these two years and the program even offered us extra language workshop to help us to advance our English proficiency. In conclusion, either the knowledge that I obtained or the network that I built from the program are more than what I expected.–Marketing

The program I was in was not your basic MBA school. It had a specific niche it catered to – entrepreneurial, Southwest geography, close-knit community, self-driven. This is not always what b-school applicants are seeking. –Marketing

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SNAP 2008 analysis

cat2009india — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:19:29 +0000

Sections

Verbal Ability
The Verbal Ability Section was an easy section and a good student would have easily taken advantage of it. There were also some grammatical mistakes in the paper. The 2 marks questions were simple enough and must have been attempted to score 10 marks easily. Overall a student could have attempted 20-25 questions in this section and a score of 20+ was achievable.
SIBM cutoff: 17+

Reasoning
The reasoning sections was a tricky one and student had to be prudent to pick questions and attempt as there were some sitters in between some confusing ones. Overall a good student would have attempted 18-20 questions and scored around 32+ marks.
SIBM cutoff:32+

GK
The GK section involved some very tough questions like the ICICI bank ones while it also had sitters like Opera etc.Overall a person good in GK could easily maximize chances in this section. Overall attempts by a good student 20-22 questions with 75 percent accuracy.
SIBM cutoff: 12+
Quant and DI
This was an easy section and engineers and people good at maths would have scored highly.The DI questions were virtually sitters and some of them like the defective components one could even be solved just be looking at the graph.A good student would have solved 20-22 questions for a score of 17+ marks.
SIBM cutoff:15+

Overall cutoffs:
SIBM:80+
SCMHRD:70+ and profile based

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Discovering the Haas State of Mind – www.tenaday.in

cat2009india — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:46:25 +0000

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It’s incredible to think that less than a year ago I was still hammering out my applications, trying to conjure up essays that stood out from the crowd. I always found the “What do you want to do in the long term?” essay the most perplexing. Seriously, do you know what you want to do 10 years from now? Does anyone? I was always tempted to answer: “Not a clue, you?” but somehow I feel I wouldn’t be writing to you today if I had done that. Besides, that would only be a four-word answer, and most of those essays require a thousand.

Indeed, I find the business school essays to be quite the paradox. With the essays, the schools test your ability to take what would normally be a one-sentence answer in the real world and explain it over several pages. Then, when you finally get into school, they test your ability to take a 50-page case and summarize it in two pages, double spaced. Interesting, don’t you think?

Thus far, life at Berkeley is great. Last weekend, I took a day off from studies and headed out for a picnic with my girlfriend at Baker Beach in San Francisco. There we watched the sun set over the cliffs and marveled at the perfect view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Life doesn’t get any better than this, and that was just a 40-minute drive from campus. While location is something you can think about before you apply, the culture (or “fit,” as they like to say) is something you don’t fully appreciate until you are actually in school.

Orientation week was the first opportunity to understand what people mean by “fit.” The thing that struck me at Haas when I met my classmates for the first time was how genuinely nice everyone was. Brilliant, but nice. There were, of course, some people who still had a case of the network bug, shuffling from person to person, trying to establish their network from day one, but even those speed daters were more relaxed by the end of the week. Berkeley has that effect on you. Of course, my classmates are all ambitious, and our GMAT average (714) will tell you we are bright. But what you won’t find here is a lot of cutthroat competition; it’s just not our style. Students at Haas are far more collaborative in nature than you would otherwise expect from a top business school, and you will notice this firsthand in your cohorts and study groups.

Support from Your Peers

Cohort is the name given to our four student factions, which are simply a way of dividing up the incoming class for school lectures. The selection is random but that doesn’t stop students from claiming they are in the better cohort. It’s all taken a little too seriously by some (but everyone knows the Gold Cohort is clearly the best). Students are then segmented into study groups of five, and within these groups you will be expected to work on cases, presentations, and exam preparation. I am fortunate to say I have some great friends in my group. Renita, Champa, and J.S. are three of the most intelligent and caring people I have ever had the privilege to meet. Support from your peers is important, particularly if you want to survive the fall term core classes.

My grandfather likes to remind me that on my first day of elementary school, feeling unprepared, I told him I was a little nervous because I couldn’t read or write. “That’s what you are here for!” he exclaimed. So after reading some accounting books over the summer, I feel I came in a little more prepared for business school. That said, no book can prepare you for the workload required for the core classes.

These classes are designed to get you “up to speed” by giving the foundation of knowledge you need before you tackle your electives. There’s no denying the pace is fast, and it will drain you mentally and physically, but I guess that’s why they invented energy drinks. I remember on one somber occasion, relieved after just finishing my last exam of fall A, I turned my iPhone back on only to see an e-mail from a Fall B professor that read: “Congratulations on finishing your exams, please find attached the homework and cases to read by Monday.” School is definitely demanding and the education you gain from these world-class professors will undoubtedly give you an edge in your future career, but it’s not the only thing to gain from your time here.

The experiences in business school are second to none. At no other time in my life will I have the opportunity to sit around a conference table, as I did at the beginning of term, and discuss entrepreneurship with an Egyptian, Russian, Japanese, Indian, and an American. With 35 countries represented among 240 classmates, I am always learning new things from my peers as well as my classes. And there is no better time than now to be learning at school. While the financial crisis is creating thunderstorms in the global market, business school provides an umbrella that will hopefully keep us dry until the skies are clearer.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Haas, and I am fortunate to say, in the game of chance that is school selection, I rolled two sixes. Never before have I met so many kind and hard-working individuals. As I write, I have been in classes for almost three months, but I already have a sense of the friendships that will endure long after I leave campus.

In Dean Lyons’ public comments, he stresses that Berkeley’s distinguishing characteristic is its culture, embodied by phrases such as “confidence without attitude” and words like “authenticity.” In my experience, I couldn’t agree more.

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