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Temple University
The Fox School of Business and Management
1999 Executive MBA Profile
Address: The Executive MBA Program
111 University Services Building
1601 North Broad Street
USB Room 111
Philadelphia, PA 19122
E-Mail: porat@sbm.temple.edu
Website: www.sbm.temple.edu/emba


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Statistics

1999 classes begin 8 / 19 / 1999 Final application deadline 6 / 1 / 2000 Current
total enrollment
60

Applications received 62 Applications accepted 81% Accepted applicants enrolled (yield) 71%

Female students 20% Minority students 15% International students N/A

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.

Total revenues generated by EMBA program in 1998-99 $934,000 Total tuition cost $38,000



Mean GMAT N/A Median GMAT 570 Range [min.] 490  [max.] 720 

Mean GPA N/A Median GPA 3.0 Range [min.] 2.5 [max.] 3.75



Average years of work experience 15 Range of work experience (years) [min.] 7 [max.] 26

Average salary for manager in program $92,600 Salary range for manager in program [min.] $60,000 [max.] $450,000



Students with advanced degrees 20% Students from nonprofit sector 7%

Students from an organization
of 100 or fewer employees
17% Students with title of president,
CEO, or chairman
8%

Attending executives who live or work
within 45 miles of school
87% Year program was founded 1985

Executive MBAs to be graduated in 1999 30 Executive MBAs graduated in 1994 18

Approximate number of
degrees awarded since founding
240


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Coursework

Required core courses/
percent of total coursework
N/A / N/A Courses considered electives/
percent of total coursework
N/A / N/A

International content 15% Entrepreneurial content N/A E-commerce content 15%

Significant changes since 1997

Introduce specialized modules in the second year curriculum; Present the capstone course alone in the summer (final course); Redefined the content and presentation of the IT class; Expanded technology use and increased use of course specific software.

Special trips or projects outside of country
Voluntary

Students from the school's EMBA program join the Japanese EMBA students and the school's IMBA students (Paris) in Tokyo each summer.

Distance-learning opportunities via Internet, videoconferencing, or other medium

Distance or Web based learning content 15% Group work done via the Internet 15%

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Programs for the spouses of Executive MBA candidates

Participate in orientation Special dinner meetings Invitiation to speaker sessions


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International Programs

Program Executive MBA program Country Tokyo, Japan Partner Motorola Startup


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Partnerships

Partnerships with domestic Executive MBA programs / corporate providers N/A


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Top Corporate Customers

Top five organizations that sent the most participants to Executive MBA Program in last five years Penn Health System
Merck and Company
SmithKline, Beecham
Lucent Technologies/AT & T
ARAMARK, DuPont


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Faculty / Teaching Methods

Faculty profile
Same faculty as full-time MBA program 75% Adjunct faculty 25% Other 0%
Full-time Executive MBA faculty with at least 5 years full-time corporate experience 41%

Teaching methods
Case study 30% Lecture 40% Distance learning 0%
Other 30%

Class schedule
Total hours in class 656 Total hours of work outside of class 1230
When and how often classes meet On alternate weekends


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