School's investment in technology over the past three years: $2,400,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
The School has standardized desktop environment for every student & staff in all computers to enable them to access content and information in a homogenous manner in the campus. Network drives are given to all staff & students' network folders so that they could access their files from any computer without the need of carrying diskettes. By the implementation of terminal services, the school enables students & staff to access the applications across the network conveniently.
The School has revamped and improved its web sites. Student, staff, alumni and public portals are created to build strong community and information networks for each of the stakeholders. The School has also created web-based applications to present staff personal information and profile consistently on our web sites. To improve its processes, the School has leveraged on web applications to deliver facilities booking, update staff profile and publish events/seminars/news online.
The School is also working aggressively on e-learning over the last few years. 86% undergraduate courses and more than 68% MBA courses are already online. A number of the courses have online tests and most courses use discussion boards to enhance the learning process.
The infrastructure has been upgraded over the last 3 years to improve availability and performance of IT services. Clustering, Load Balancing with Storage Area Networks with Lan-Less backups are implemented recently to improve the availability and reliability of the online services.
The School has also worked with vendors to provide students with cashless self-served printing kiosks to meet their printing needs and has also increased the number of computer laboratories to graduate students to cater to the growing demands of the students.
CAREER SERVICES
Do part-time MBA students have access to the career-development office? Yes
At what point?
At any time
Estimated percentage of part-time students that change careers during their studies
n/a
If a full-time program is offered, are part-time MBAs permitted to interview on campus, alongside full-time students, for summer internships? Yes
If a full-time program is offered, are part-time MBAs permitted to interview on campus, next to full-time students, for full-time jobs? Yes
Part-time students included in resume drops before recruiters visit campus? Yes
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
B-school offers placement services for MBA alumni? No
Current part-time MBAs given access to alumni database? Yes
The B-school has awarded 1,476 MBA degrees since its founding, 1,073 of which were part-time MBA students. It has 1,475 living MBA alumni, and 1 MBA club(s)in 1 country, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
During the past 12 months, n/a of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. n/a, and a mean gift of U.S. n/a. As of Jan. 2002 the B-school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million, and the B-school's total endowment is $82,000 (U.S.)
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Janice Tan
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