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Boston University
School of Management
2000 Part-time MBA Profile
Address: 595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
E-Mail: mba@bu.edu
Website: management.bu.edu

2000 Part-time MBA Menu|2000 Full-time MBA Menu
Admissions| Program Statistics| Coursework
International Programs| Career Services| Top Corporate Customers|
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Admissions
Student Demographics
Total part-time enrollment 636 On-campus enrollment 636 Distance-program enrollment N/A
Total full-time enrollment 486
Female students enrolled 37% Underrepresented minority* students enrolled 9% Out-of-country students enrolled 11%
Females in applicant pool 33% Underrepresented minority* applicants 4% Out-of-country applicants 11%
Students with advanced degrees 9% Attending students who live outside
a 45-mile radius of school 		N/A
Students who receive financial
assistance from the school 		42% Students whose education is fully
funded by their company 		N/A
Number of applicants in 1999-2000 352 Applications accepted (selectivity) 74% Admitted applicants enrolled (yield) 67%
*Underrepresented minority students are defined as U.S. citizens who are African American, Hispanic American, or Native American. They do not include Asian Americans.

Class Traits
Mean GMAT 588 Median GMAT 580 Range [min.] 440  [max.] 780 
Mean TOEFL
(paper-based equivalent) 		268 Median TOEFL 273 Range [min.] 250 [max.] 280
Student age Average 28 Age range from 22 to 49
Work experience (months) Average 24 Range (months) [min.] 12 to [max.] 100
Admitted students with less than one year of work experience 0

Career Data

Average salary of students in program N/A Salary range of students in program [min.] N/A to [max.] N/A
Students from an organization of 100 or fewer employees N/A Students from nonprofit sector N/A

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Careers
Top 10 organizations that send the most participants to the part-time MBA program:
1. Fidelity Investments 33 6. Gillette 8
2. State Street Bank 16 7. Putnam Investments 5
3. Boston University 14 8. Brown Brothers Harriman 4
4. John Hancock 9 9. Partners Health Care 3
5. Thompson Financial Services 9 10.Teradyne 3

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Careers
Year traditional PT MBA was founded 1925 Approximate number of degrees awarded since founding 11,325
PT MBAs graduated in 1999-2000 215 PT MBAs graduated in 1996-97 236
Laptop required No Institution Private Accelerated PT program offered? No
Average number of years to complete PT program 3 Maximum number of years permitted to complete PT program 6
Possible for students to change status from PT to full-time Yes When At any time.
Total revenues generated by PT MBA program in 1999-2000 N/A Total 1999-2000 budget for PT program N/A

Tuition Costs
Average total (not annual) cost of PT MBA In-state $47,552 Out-of-state $47,552
Cost per core course (3 credit equivalent) In-state N/A Out-of-state N/A

Application Deadlines
Admissions Financial Aid
Fall 2000 N/A Fall 2000 June 15, 2000
Winter 2000-01 N/A Winter 2000-01 N/A
Spring 2001 N/A Spring 2001 Nov. 15, 2000
Summer 2001 N/A Summer 2001 N/A

Does the school offer rolling admissions? Yes

Classes Start
N/A


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Careers
Required core courses/
percent of total coursework 		8 / 50% Courses considered electives/
percent of total coursework 		88 / 15%
International content 15% Entrepreneurial content 15% E-commerce content 10%
Distance or Web-based learning content N/A Group work done via the Internet N/A Core PT MBA curriculum last revised Sept. 1, 1999
Significant changes to PT program since 1998
A professional evening MBA program was added in Fall 1999. New this fall, the eight core courses will be delivered to students in a prescribed sequence so that students can learn necessary ideas and concepts which they can use and build on throughout the MBA Program.
Special trips or projects outside of country
Voluntary
After completing the first level of the curriculum, students may live and study abroad through the student exchange programs between BU and the University of Manchester in England or the University of Lyon in France. The International Management Program (IMP) consists of 3 modules during the 10-week program taught by BU faculty at the Sanyo Electric Corporate Training Center in Kobe, Japan.

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Careers
Faculty profile
Same faculty as full-time MBA program 100% Adjunct faculty 41% Other 1%
Full-time MBA faculty with at least 5 years
of full-time corporate experience 		20%

Teaching methods
Case study 50% Lecture 30% Other 20% See E-mail
Average number of students in core class 50 Average number of students in elective class 32

Class schedule
Total hours in class 672 Total hours of work outside of class 2,016
When and how often classes meet Evenings

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Careers
Program N/A Country N/A Partner N/A

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Careers
PT MBA student access to career management office Yes At what point Part-time students are able to access career services at any time.
Estimated percentage of PT students who use the career management office 30% Estimated percentage of PT students who use their MBA to change careers N/A

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Alumni Affairs
Living MBA alumni
(as of summer 2000) 		9,779 Alumni clubs 10
Living alumni who gave to the annual
fund-raising efforts of the school in 1999-2000 		1,091 Median gift $50 Average gift $109

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Administration
Dean Louis Lataif E-mail lelataif@bu.edu
Director of PT MBA Program Martha Cohen Barrett E-mail barrett@bu.edu
Director of PT Admissions Peter Kelly E-mail pkelly@bu.edu
Director of Alumni Relations Ruth Gallagher E-mail rgallagh@bu.edu
Director of Financial Aid Peter Kelly E-mail pkelly@bu.edu
Director of Career Services Jennifer Lawrence E-mail jenlaw@bu.edu
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