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 964 executive MBA degrees, and n/a MBA degrees since its founding. It has 4,548 living MBA alumni, and 44 MBA clubs, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
98 EMBAs will graduate in 2001, compared to 43 EMBAs that graduated in 1996.
During the past 12 months, 32% 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. $350. The school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million since 1999, and the B-school endowment is U.S. $164,000,000
Significant changes since 1999:
This year marks changes in Olin's Executive MBA programs that make getting a degree more flexible and convenient for its students. The school now offers two Executive MBA options: the August Executive MBA Program with a concentration in general management, and the January Executive MBA Program with concentrations in general management, health services management, or Manufacturing Management.
TECHNOLOGY
Wireless network in main buildings: Yes
School's investment in technology over the past three years: n/a
Technology changes made over the past three years:
The very latest in technology-assisted instruction will be coming to Olin this fall in the form of a software package called Prometheus. The threaded discussion and chat features of this web-based product will provide students with new ways of interacting online with your professors and classmates. Prometheus will also serve as the online repository for course materials and syllabi. For the first time, the school added a full-time staff person dedicated to eLearning. This year, the school added one-third to its stock of workstations and increased monitor size to 19 inches. The Taylor Lab is now open all year. Beginning in fall 2001, wireless access to the Olin network will be available within Simon Hall. The wireless network will be a single, shared 10 Mbps Ethernet connection. All seats in Simon Hall classrooms are now wired for power and high-speed network connections. The school has also expanded its lab hours.
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