EXECUTIVE MBA Profiles Publish Date 11/05/09

Villanova University

School of Business

Getting In

PROGRAM BASICS

The Villanova School of Business Executive MBA

Villanova School of Business

800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova , Pennsylvania 19085 United States

Status:

Private Institution

Length of program (months):

Classes meet:

Alternate weekends

Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

Resident: $ 90,000
Non Resident: $ 90,000

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Other

Specialized Accreditation in Accounting (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

Graduate business school enrollment:

Total: 682
Full-Time MBA: 0
Part-time MBA: 518
Executive MBA: 65
PhD Program: 0

Undergraduate business school enrollment:

1,793

Graduate degree programs:

Master of Accounting

Master of Finance

Other graduate degree programs:

Master of Science in Church Management Graduate Tax Program

ADMISSIONS

Rolling admissions?

Yes

GMAT Required?

If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment?

Roles and responsibilities in the workplace combined with past undergraduate experience.

Middle 80% range of GMAT scores:

N/A

Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers?

Yes

Minimum TOEFL required:

550

Application fee:

$ 50

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:

100 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

CLASS PROFILE

EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

Female: 26 %
International: 4 %

Entering students are from the following regions:

Africa : 0 %
Asia: 4 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 0 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
Middle East: 0 %
North America: 96 %
Oceania : 0 %
Western Europe: 0 %
Dual citizenship: 4 %

Entering North American citizens are from the following regions:

West: 0 %
Midwest: 0 %
Southwest: 0 %
South: 0 %
Mid-Atlantic: 85 %
Northeast: 15 %
Possessions and territories: 0 %
Canada: 0 %

U.S. students in newest entering class who are:

African American: 7 %
Asian American: 4 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0 %
Native American: 4 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 85 %
Chose not to report: 0 %
Other: 0 %

Average months of work experience:

141

Middle 80% range work experience, months:

From: 72
To: 269

Average age:

Middle 80% age range:

From: 29
To: 47

Work background:

Have advanced degrees: 15 %
Work in the nonprofit sector: 7 %
Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 7 %
Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 0 %

EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus:

70 %

Middle 80% base salary range:

Low: $ 82,000
High: $ 161,500

Students work in these functional categories:

Consulting: 4 %
Finance/Accounting: 22 %
General Management : 22 %
Human Resources: 4 %
Marketing/Sales: 26 %
Management Information Systems : 0 %
Operations/Logistics: 22 %
Other: 0 %

Students work in these industries:

Consulting: 4 %
Consumer Products: 4 %
Financial Services: 20 %
Government: 0 %
Manufacturing: 15 %
Media/Entertainment: 7 %
Non-Profit: 4 %
Petroleum/Energy: 7 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 31 %
Real Estate: 4 %
Technology: 4 %
Other: 0 %

Top organizations sending students:

Johnson and Johnson
Boeing
Sunoco
IBM
Merck & Co

FINANCIAL AID

EMBAs receiving financial aid through school:

25 %

Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months:

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality?

Academics & Lifestyle

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

154

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 69
Non-Tenured: 44

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 41

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 15
Non-Tenured: 18

Minority Faculty:

Tenured: 9
Non-Tenured: 4

International Faculty:

Tenured: 4
Non-Tenured: 4

Faculty with PhDs:

N/A

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

24 %

Faculty who have owned their own business:

38 %

STUDENT LIFE

Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project?

Yes

Description:

Each student is required to travel and participate in an 8 day learning experience within an emerging economy.

Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants?

Yes

Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants?

Yes

Description:

Individual rooms at The Villanova Conference Center: classes, dining, fitness center, recreation, and housing are provided in this executive conference center on a scenic 34-acre site conveniently located just outside Philadelphia.

Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym?

Yes

Special student/home/work/life initiatives:

To help students balance the demands of a rigorous academic program, work and home, VSB offers a

How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles)

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods:

Case Study: 30 %
Experiential Learning: 5 %
Lectures: 20 %
Simulations: 5 %
Team Projects: 30 %
Other: 10 %

Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty:

58 %

Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience:

53 %

Average class size, core EMBA class:

Average class size, EMBA electives:

n/a

Elective courses:

n/a

Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

Hours per week in class: 8
Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 20

Last revision of core EMBA curriculum:

2004

Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium?

Description:

N/A

Graduation Requirements:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

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

Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades

Other:

Working as part of a team over a period of 8-months, each student must successfully complete a real-wolrd application of the systems thinking methodology and present the results.

Additional EMBA Programs:
EMBA programs run in another country:

n/a

Domestic partnerships or in-house EMBA programs:

Program Name: n/a

In-house EMBA programs provided for companies:

n/a

Recent changes to EMBA program:

Executive Development - Managing Your Career Added in 2008 along with mini-executive education sessions on current topics such as Post-Bailout Regulatory Environment, Analytics, Emerging Markets Trends, etc.

TECHNOLOGY

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

Villanova has enhanced audio visual, web, and podcasting and video conferencing options across all 150+ classrooms on campus. The academic portal/learning management system integrates Wimba, iTunesU repository, Safeassign anti-plagiarism software, electronic reserves, wikis and blogs, online testing, and You Tube content. The Microsoft Exchange email and calendar platform is used across campus. Villanova maintains 475 mb of internet bandwidth, which includes a 25 mb Internet 2 connection. In addition to 18,000 network connections, Villanova has wireless connectivity covering 80% of the campus, including most residence halls and all academic buildings. Villanova has “Nova Alert,” an emergency notification system, a campus card-based student print system, an off-campus merchant purchasing program, and a basketball lottery system.

Alumni Affairs & Careers

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

3,500

Active MBA alumni clubs:

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:

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

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:

www.alumni.villanova.edu

Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

http://www.villanova.edu/business/execmba/about/alumni/

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Does the school offer EMBA students access to the career services office?

Yes

Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs?

Yes

What is the school's policy concerning recruiters targeting EMBA students for full-time jobs?

Each student manages his/her relationship with their employer. The School supports students in managing and developing careers within their organizations as well as supports students in transition and those who are pursuing entrepreneurial ventures.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

Additional school comments:

The cornerstone of the admissions process for VSB is the determination of wheter there is an appropriate fit between the VSB Executive MBA program and the life goals of the applicant. The program is innovative, rigorous, and requires a deep committment on the part of all students, faculty, and staff who participate in it. Each incoming class is comprised of a diverse group of highly skilled, emerging executive leaders who want to transform the way they lead organizations. VSB executive MBA students want to challenge themselves to change, grow, and view the world differently as a result of their learning experience.

Graduate Comments

Villanova provided curriculum geared to the current business environment. The faculty was composed of a good mix of faculty and adjunct professors, giving a good mix of practical industry experience with the core academic fundamentals.

Villanova's curriculum struck a perfect balance between finance, leadership, ethics, global strategy and systems design which now provides me with the business acumen necessary to lead in a highly dynamic, competitive business environment.

Villanova was positioned well to educate executives and prepare them for the business world in a particularly tumultuous time in history. The focus on systems thinking, risk management, ethics and technology provided me with the right set of skills at the right time. While other programs are scrambling to reexamine and recreate curriculum, the Villanova EMBA program is already poised for success.

Villanova provided a stellar learning environment and the teachers were of the utmost caliber. Additionally, the program's curriculum was designed in a manner which was ahead of its time, with significant incorporation of systemic leadership and risk management.

The program provided the quantitative framework and qualitative experiences to help transform me from an emerging to an effective executive leader.

Villanova University builds its EMBA program around the concept of Systems Thinking which teaches you how to define the problem before you seek a solution.

Villanova's strengths are their experiences and depth of knowledge and their ability to pull from the experiences of the members in the class, adapting real time to the changing business environments and real life situations. Villanova was able to relate concepts to the real world and brought in to the subject the current events of the business world so we had a better understanding of the economy as we were living in.

One of Villanova's strengths was the highly integrated curriculum with a focus on systems thinking. Weaknesses included the lack of electives and limited international case studies.

The Villanova culture was very collaborative, which was good. However, the class would have benefitted from a bit more skepticism and challenges from classmates in order to increase the rigor of presentations and business cases being presented.

The emphasis on systems thinking, ethical business practices and risk management gave Villanova EMBA students a clear advantage compared to their peers. The program is deeply routed in Villanova's Augustinian values that encourage holistic development of the person: allowing students, faculty and staff to grow intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, culturally, socially and physically in an environment that supports individual differences and insists that mutual love and respect should animate every aspect of university life.

This program was by far the deepest and rewarding academic experience of my life. Every day I have the opportunity to apply the skills and competencies developed during the program.