School's investment in technology over the past three years: $2,260,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
The school has a standardized desktop environment for every student & staff, enabling them to access content and information in a homogenous manner in the campus. Network drives are given to all staff & students so that they can access their files from any computer without the need of carrying diskettes. Terminal services enable students & staff to access the applications across the network conveniently.
The school revamped and improved its Web sites.
Working aggressively on e-learning over the last few years. 86% undergraduate courses and more than 68% MBA courses are already online. Extensive tools including the use of discussion boards, online assessment and tests, posting of videos of lectures online and so on are deployed to supplement classroom teaching.
Improved the infrastructure to improve availability and performance of our IT services. Clustering, Load Balancing with Storage Area Networks with Lan-Less backups were implemented recently to improve the availability and reliability of our online services.
The University has also implemented extensive wireless network within the campus to allow students to access course content, applications and information with their laptop computers easily.
Students have cashless, self-served printing kiosks to meet their printing needs.
Upgrade computing and teaching facilities. New U-shaped seminar rooms fitted with latest technologies. More computer laboratories for graduate students. Computers are upgraded regularly to ensure that they are relevant to 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 part-time MBA alumni? Yes
Current part-time MBAs given access to alumni database? Yes
The B-school has awarded 1,532 executive MBA degrees, and 1,532 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 1,531 living MBA alumni, and 1 MBA clubs 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. The school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million between Jan. 2001 and Oct. 2003, and the B-school endowment is U.S. $2,039,000
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Yew Tung Boey
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