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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Villanova University

School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Villanova School of Business
      • 800 Lancaster Ave
      • PA
      • Villanova, 19085, Pennsylvania
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 62
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? No
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: No

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 693
      • Part-Time MBA: 551
      • Executive MBA: 53
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,757
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Other

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $2,550.00
      • High: $3,000.00

    • Range of costs, custom programs:

      • Low: $10,000.00
      • High: $1,200,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 89 %

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

      • Female: 39 %
      • International : 4 %

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 172

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 72
      • Non-Tenured: 30

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 70

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 16
      • Non-Tenured: 29

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 14

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4
      • Non-Tenured: 8

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 70
      • Non-Tenured: 37

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 20 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 20 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 84 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 16 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 16 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Enhanced classrooms in Bartley Hall: new projection systems and cameras, new podium and Sympodium systems, remotely managed recording systems, video conferencing capabilities, and automated lecture capture capability. The campus wireless network covers 90% of campus buildings and open spaces. VU Mobile, Villanova University’s official iPhone app, continues to be popular and has been downloaded 2,000 times by people representing 16 different countries.

  • CONTACT INFORMATION

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