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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Carnegie Mellon University

Tepper School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Tepper School of Business Executive Education Center
      • David A. Tepper School of Business
      • 5000 Forbes Avenue
      • PA
      • Pittsburgh, 15213-3890, Pennsylvania
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 9
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 10
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 1,320
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 1990
      • Number of classrooms: 5
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: Yes

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 1
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 1
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 20

    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Design Thinking: Innovation, Strategy and Communication
      • Partner(s): Carnegie Mellon School of Design
      • Title: Service Design Weekend Workshop
      • Partner(s): Carnegie Mellon School of Design
      • Title: Design, Leadership and Change
      • Partner(s): Carnegie Mellon School of Design
      • Title: Technology Leadership Essentials
      • Partner(s): Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 726
      • Full-Time MBA: 422
      • Part-Time MBA: 201
      • PhD Program: 103
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 359
      • Other graduate degree programs: Other

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $2,000.00
      • High: $34,900.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 9 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 91 %

    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 14 %
      • International : 75 %
      • Business owners: 1 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 94 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Global Leadership Executive Forum
      • Course Length: 18 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $34,900.00
      • Title: Post Merger Integration: Master M&A Intangibles
      • Course Length: 4 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $4,800.00
      • Title: Leadership as a Daily Challenge: An Integrated Approach
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $6,100.00
      • Title: Leadership and Change Management in a Multicultural Context
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $3,700.00
      • Title: Design Thinking: Innovation, Strategy and Communication
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $6,500.00
      • Title: Service Design Weekend Workshop
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,000.00
      • Title: Design, Leadership and Change
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $6,500.00

    • International programs:

      • Title: Managing Leadership Strategies
      • Type of Course: Custom
      • Partner(s): None
      • Year Established: 2011
      • Title: Global Leadership
      • Type of Course: Custom
      • Country: India
      • Partner(s): None
      • Year Established: 2011

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 143

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 44
      • Non-Tenured: 57

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 42

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 25

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 7
      • Non-Tenured: 15

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 13
      • Non-Tenured: 39

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 44
      • Non-Tenured: 52

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 10 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 25 %
      • Lectures: 35 %
      • Simulations: 15 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 60 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 20 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 10 %
      • Other: 10 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 20 %
      • International: 36 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: New tv studio; web apps for alumni/student services; Faculty Center projectors, touch panel control, flat panel displays, podiums, flexible display orientations; Classrooms dual HD projectors, touch panel control, HD dist. learning equipment, recording technology, doc camera, audio/sound treatment, widescreen projectors, current generation touch panel control & updated video switchers; Virtual Machine architecture, converted web/database servers to virtual machines; upgraded Bloomberg terminals.
      • Amount spent: $6,000,000.00

  • CONTACT INFORMATION

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