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BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE: B-SCHOOLS: 1999 MBA PROFILES
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Business
 1999 MBA Profile
Address: College of Business
107 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5608
E-Mail: gradbus@rit.edu
Website: www.cob.rit.edu


Editor's Note: Here is a 1999 update of the contacts and statistical information in the 1998 Business Week Online profile for this school. To see the original profile — click here.

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Admissions

1999-2000 Student Profile
Total enrollment 339 Full-time students 146 Part-time students 193
Female 28% Non-U.S. citzens 39% Underrepresented minorities* 5%
Applicants accepted [selectivity] 63% Applicants admitted [yield] 39% Number of applicants 183
Overall applicants interviewed N/A Admitted applicants interviewed N/A Admitted students with less than one year of work experience 48%

Class of 2001 Traits
GMAT scores Average 576 Range 430 to 760
Undergraduate GPA Average 3.2 Range 2.2 to 3.9
Work experience [years] Average 3 Range 0 to 27
Student age [years] Average 27 Range 21 to 48

Tuition and Fees
In-state $19,461 Out-of-state $19,461 Room & board $5,040
Recommended annual student budget [out-of-state] $26,381 Average amount of outstanding MBA loans per full-time student $15,800

Application deadlines for Class of 2002

Admission applications Financial aid applications
Domestic 08/07/99 International 07/24/99 Domestic N/A International N/A
Domestic 10/31/99 International 10/17/99 Domestic N/A International N/A
Domestic 02/06/00 International 01/23/00 Domestic N/A International N/A
Domestic 05/01/00 International 04/17/00 Domestic N/A International N/A
* Underrepresented minority students are defined as U.S. citizens who are African American, Hispanic American, and Native American. They do not include Asian Americans.
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Career Services**

Recruitment
Estimated percentage of Class of 1999 [seeking employment] that took a job at a company with less than 100 employees 9% Percentage of Class of 1999 [seeking employment] that received their first job offer by graduation 65%
Actual on-campus interviews conducted for full-time jobs [including first-round interviews] for second-year students 152 Companies that recruited second-year students on campus in past academic year 215
Actual on-campus interviews conducted for summer internships 62 Companies that recruited on campus for first-year interships 235
Average number of job offers received by a Class of 1999 graduate [seeking employment] 3 Opportunities posted via the Internet or electronically 200

Top Employers / Number of 1999 Hires
Top 10 recruiting firms [i.e. hired the most 1999 grads] and the number of students hired

1. Xerox 11 6. Arthur Andersen 1
2. Eastman Kodak 4 7. EDS 1
3. IBM 2 8. Harris Interactive 1
4. Capital One 2 9. Frontier 1
5. PricewaterhouseCoopers 1 10. Heidelburg Digital 1

Prospects - 1998 / 1999 Grads
Median starting base salary [excluding bonuses] for the Class of 1999 $49,500 Average starting base salary [excluding bonuses] for the Class of 1999 $49,643
Median first year signing bonus for the Class of 1999 $4,500 Average first year signing bonus for the Class of 1999 $5,000
Percentage of job-accepting Class of 1999 graduates who provided usable base salary information 81% Percentage of job-accepting Class of 1999 graduates who received a signing bonus 12%
** The information presented in this section was collected using the MBA Career Services Council's Standards for Reporting MBA Employment Statistics
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Faculty & Teaching

Basic Information
Institution is Private Core MBA curriculumlast revised in 1995
B-school's operating budget for 1999-00 school year $5,167,000 Amount of operating budget used to support financial aid $380,851
Graduate school's total dollar endowment as of August 1, 1999 $11,000,000 Increase in operating budget used to support financial aid from 1998-99 academic year 2%
Accelerated MBA program offered No Laptop Computer Requirement No

Distance learning program N/A

School Concentrations / Specializations
FInance International Business Manufacturing Management
Public Accounting Corporate Accounting Health Care Administration
Human Resource Management Management Information Systems Management and Leadership
Marketing and Sales Management Marketing Research Quality & Applied Statistics
Quantitative Decision Making Technology Management Engineering Management
Quality & Organizational Improvement

Teaching Methods
Lecture 65% Case study 20% Other 15%
Full-time faculty in residence for the 99-00 year 29 Adjunct or visiting faculty in residence for the 99-00 year 29


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Administration

Dean Thomas Hopkins Phone number 716.475.6025

Director of MBA Programs Donald Wilson Phone number 716.475.6798

Director of Admissions Daniel Shelley Phone number 716.475.6631

Director of Alumni Relations Ed Lincoln Phone number 716.475.7412

Director of Financial Aid Verna Hazen Phone number 716.475.2186

Director of Career Services Emanuel Contomanolis Phone number 716.475.2301


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Alumni Affairs

Living MBA alumni 3,200 Alumni clubs 0

Living alumni who gave to the annual fund raising efforts of the school in 1998-99 13% Median gift $35 Average gift $131



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