2000 Rank:    29 1998 Rank:    Second Tier 1996 Rank:    Second Tier		Students give thumbs-up for placement initiatives. Administrators try to cash in on Net boom with program in high-tech marketing.		MICHIGAN STATE INSIDER CONTENT Admissions Q&A Admission Interview Tips School Tour MICHIGAN STATE PROFILES Full-time '04 | '03 | '02 | '01 | '00 | '99 | '98 Part-time '04 | '03 | '02 | '01 | '00 EMBA '03 | '01 Exec ed '03 | '01 MICHIGAN STATE INFO Admissions Q&A '01 | '98 Financial Aid Q&A '01 | Dean Q&A '02 B-School Calendar Search for articles about Michigan State MICHIGAN STATE RANKINGS Full-time MBA rank: 2004:   Second tier     1994:   --     2002:   23     1992:   --     2000:   29     1990:   --     1998:   Second tier     1988:   --     1996:   Second tier     BW ranking history

* Business Week uses the Graduate Management Admission Council's standards for reporting data.

** Underrepresented minority students are defined as U.S. citizens who are African American, Hispanic American, and Native American. They do not include Asian Americans.

Recruitment * Estimated percentage of Class of 2000 [seeking employment] who took a job at a company with fewer than 100 employees 9% Percentage of Class of 2000 [seeking employment] who received their first job offer by graduation 92% Companies that recruited on campus for first-year interships 46 Companies that recruited second-year students on campus in past academic year 71 Average number of job offers received by a Class of 2000 graduate [seeking employment] N/A

Top Employers / Number of 2000 Hires Top 10 companies [i.e. hired the most 2000 grads] and the number of students hired 1. Ford Motor Company 12 6. Sprint 2 2. Intel Corporation 11 7. Solectron 2 3. General Motors Corp 11 8. Motorola 2 4. Apple Computer 8 9. Cisco Systems 2 5. U.S. Bancorp 4 10. Honeywell International 2

Prospects for 1999 / 2000 Grads Median starting base-salary [excluding bonuses] for the Class of 2000 $72,000 Average starting base-salary [excluding bonuses] for the Class of 2000 $73,047 Median first-year signing bonus for the Class of 2000 $7,083 Average first-year signing bonus for the Class of 2000 $9,049 Percentage of job-accepting Class of 2000 graduates who provided usable base-salary information 88% Percentage of job-accepting Class of 2000 graduates who received a signing bonus 86%

Students Report Median total investment $94,000 Median post-MBA starting salary $71,000 Median MBA loans $17,000 Median signing bonus $7,000 Number of job offers by graduation 3 Median other compensation $6,000 Average number of business plans written 3

* The information presented in this section was collected using the MBA Career Services Council's Standards for Reporting MBA Employment Statistics

Basic Information Institution is Public Core MBA curriculum last revised in N/A Graduate school's total dollar endowment as of August 1, 2000 $8,386,869 Laptop computer requirement N/A Accelerated MBA program offered N/A E-learning program No

School Concentrations / Specializations Finance (primary) Human Resource Management (primary) Marketing Technology* Supply Chain Management (primary) Business Information Systems Corporate Accounting Hospitality Business International Business* Leadership and Change Management*

Concentrations Added in the Last Three Years Marketing Technology International Business Leadership and Change Management

Students Report Most Popular Professors Most Popular Electives N. Khanna P. Rubin Corporate Financial Strategies Enterprise Information Systems

Academics Teaching Methods Lecture 30% Case study 35% Other 35% Grading system 4.0 scale Describe other 20% group, 15% computer Average number of students in core class 35 Average number of students in elective class 30 Mandatory study trip abroad? No Exchange programs or campuses abroad? N/A Accelerated MBA program? N/A Distance learning degree program? No

Faculty Full-time faculty in residence for the 2000-2001 year 52 Adjunct or visiting faculty in residence for the 2000-2001 year 5 Number of tenured professors 45 Percent of tenured professors who are female 16% Percent of tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities 9% Percent of faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 10%

Technology Amount school invested over the past three years $395,000 Changes made over the past three years The school established a Business Information Systems lab, and opened a new MBA computer lab in Fall 1999 that's more than triple the size of the previous lab and is equipped with computers, ethernet connections and printers. All labs are free to MBA students.

Tuition and Fees Resident $11,300 Nonresident $15,300 Room & board $6,800 Estimated total cost per year [out-of-state] $26,319

Application Deadlines for Class of 2003 Admissions Financial Aid Domestic Dec. 15, 2000 International Dec. 15, 2000 Domestic Mar. 30, 2001 Domestic Jan. 31, 2001 International Jan. 31, 2001 International Mar. 30, 2001 Domestic Feb. 28, 2001 International Feb. 28, 2001 Domestic Mar. 30, 2001 International Mar. 30, 2001 Domestic Jun. 15, 2001 International         Does the school offer rolling admissions?   No

Dean		James B. Henry		E-mail address		jhenry@msu.edu
Director of MBA Programs		John T. Delaney		E-mail address		delaney@bus.msu.edu
Director of Admissions		Randall F. Dean		E-mail address		deanrand@msu.edu
Director of Alumni Relations		Pam Schoen		E-mail address		schoenpa@msu.edu
Director of Financial Aid		Richard Eddington-Shipman		E-mail address		shipmanr@msu.edu
Director of Career Services		Helen Dashney		E-mail address		dashney@msu.edu

Living MBA alumni

6,773

Alumni clubs

1

Placement Services for Alumni?

Yes

Percent of living alumni who gave to the school's fund-raising efforts in 1999-2000

5%

Median gift

$100

Average gift

$1,447

The information above was submitted on behalf of the school by: Name Robert W. Metzger Title Director