The B-school offers EMBA students access to its career services office: Yes
The B-school allows its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs: Yes
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
The B-school has awarded 244 executive MBA degrees, and 33,022 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 24,059 living MBA alumni, and 150 MBA clubs, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
32 EMBAs will graduate in 2001, compared to 31 EMBAs that graduated in 1996.
During the past 12 months, 18% of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $100, and a mean gift of U.S. $370. The school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million since 1999, and the B-school endowment is U.S. $24,000,000
Significant changes since 1999:
There have been three major changes to the school's EMIM curriculum between 2000 and 2001. The school decreased the contact hours by approximately 12%, which shortened the programm to 21 months. The class now graduates in May with the rest of the full-time day students.
TECHNOLOGY
Wireless network in main buildings: No
School's investment in technology over the past three years: $7,000,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
The school implementated a Gigabit Ethernet LAN bringing 10Mbsp connectivity to every part of campus. The entire campus was wired, including every dorm room and all student activity, meeting, and study areas. 350 Internet access ready network ports throughout all student areas of campus were installed. Wide Area Networking to the school's centers in Japan and France was implemented. On campus linkage to the school's document imaging center from any port on campus was made available. A campus-wide enterprise learning portal (My Thunderbird) for all the school's stakeholders including students, alumni, faculty, staff, corporate recruiters, executive education clients, trustees, and advisors was developed. A community center allowing alumni, students, and staff to interact online and support the activities of various stakeholders was added. Direct linkage from students' intranet portal Web page directly to all research databases and other library resources via a Web browser was developed. The school also added a robust career management system which provides the matching of student skills with job requirements, scheduling of interviews, and the automatice posting of jobs via an extranet job submission application. A host of online student services, including grade reporting and registration, were deployed.
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