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ESSEC
1999 Executive MBA Profile
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1999 classes begin
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9 / 7 / 1999
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Final application deadline
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6 / 1 / 2000
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Current
total enrollment
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105
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Applications received
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82
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Applications accepted
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66%
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Accepted applicants enrolled (yield)
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90%
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Female students
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20%
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Minority students
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N/A
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International students
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30%
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Note: For the purposes of this survey, minority students are defined as African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American students from the U.S. Asian Americans are not included.
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Total revenues generated by EMBA program in 1998-99
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$1,100,000
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Total tuition cost
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$27,000
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Mean GMAT
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610
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Median GMAT
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630
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Range
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[min.]
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500
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[max.]
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720
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Mean GPA
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NA
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Median GPA
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NA
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Range
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[min.]
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NA
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[max.]
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NA
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Average years of work experience
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9
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Range of work experience (years)
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[min.]
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4
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[max.]
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19
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Average salary for manager in program
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$71,200
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Salary range for manager in program
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[min.]
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$28,000
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[max.]
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$340,000
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Students with advanced degrees
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55%
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Students from nonprofit sector
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6%
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Students from an organization
of 100 or fewer employees
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10%
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Students with title of president,
CEO, or chairman
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4%
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Attending executives who live or work
within 45 miles of school
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65%
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Year program was founded
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1993
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Executive MBAs to be graduated in 1999
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47
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Executive MBAs graduated in 1994
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24
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Approximate number of
degrees awarded since founding
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170
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Required core courses/
percent of total coursework
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20 / 80%
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Courses considered electives/
percent of total coursework
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3 / 15%
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International content
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75%
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Entrepreneurial content
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20%
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E-commerce content
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20%
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Significant changes since 1997
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ESSEC have moved to a bilingual, French-English program. On average, their participants speak and read three languages (mother tongue plus two foreign languages).
They have heavily integrated distance learning since 1998.
They have added the second international week (optional participation).
They have increased international participants from 15% to 30% through active recruiting of international participants.
In 1997, ESSEC created a course in which the participants create the content, the object being to develop participation and entrepreneurship.
They are in the process of creating a transcontinental Negotiations course between ESSEC and Duke/Fuqua EMBA programs.
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Special trips or projects outside of country
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A one-week mandatory session, themed "The future of the European Union", is held in Brussels.A second (voluntary) international trip, is an exchange with Duke's Fuqua School Weekend MBA: Fuqua participants spend a week in France and ESSEC's participants spend a week at Fuqua. This is a non-credit, participant-run exchange built by the participants as part of an entrepreneurial course of the program.
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Distance-learning opportunities via Internet, videoconferencing, or other medium
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Distance or Web based learning content
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15%
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Group work done via the Internet
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40%
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The school uses a Web-based intranet that relies on Lotus-Notes.
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Programs for the spouses of Executive MBA candidates
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Spouses' Day comprises of a series of lectures and "sample" courses at the Executive Education facility.
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Program
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N/A
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Country
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Partner
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Partnerships with domestic Executive MBA programs / corporate providers
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Vivendi
EDF
Philips
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Top five organizations that sent the most participants to Executive MBA Program in last five years
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Alcatel
France Télécom
Vivendi
EDF (Electricité de France)
Rover Automobiles
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Faculty / Teaching Methods
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Same faculty as full-time MBA program
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85%
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Adjunct faculty
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15%
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Other
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0%
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Full-time Executive MBA faculty with at least 5 years full-time corporate experience
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10%
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Case study
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30%
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Lecture
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40%
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Distance learning
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15%
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Total hours in class
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675
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Total hours of work outside of class
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1200
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When and how often classes meet
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Evenings
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