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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

University of Houston

Bauer College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Executive MBA Program
      • C. T. Bauer College of Business
      • 334 Melcher Hall
      • Room 330
      • Houston, 77204, Texas
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Length of program (months): 22

    • Classes meet:

        • Alternate weekends

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $63,500.00
      • Non Resident: $73,000.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,525
      • Full-Time MBA: 167
      • Part-Time MBA: 714
      • Executive MBA: 148
      • PhD Program: 69
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 4,426
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance

  • ADMISSIONS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT Required? No
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
      • Application fee: $75.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 148
      • Applicants accepted: 71 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 64 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

      • Female: 19 %
      • International: 15 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Africa: 2 %
      • Asia: 4 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 87 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 7 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

    • Entering U.S. citizens are from the following regions:

      • West: 0 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • Southwest: 100 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

    • U.S. students in newest entering class who are:

      • African American: 16 %
      • Asian American: 4 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 12 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 61 %
      • Chose not to report: 2 %
      • Other: 5 %
      • Average age: 37

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 30
      • To: 48

    • Work background:

      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 0 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 15 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 0 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 100 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $96,975.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $80,000.00
      • High: $111,372.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 3 %
      • Finance/Accounting 10 %
      • General Management : 25 %
      • Human Resources: 6 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 11 %
      • Management Information Systems : 3 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 36 %
      • Other: 6 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 6 %
      • Consumer Products: 7 %
      • Financial Services: 2 %
      • Government: 6 %
      • Manufacturing: 9 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 45 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 2 %
      • Real Estate: 6 %
      • Technology: 4 %
      • Other: 13 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Chevron
      • Shell
      • Baylor College of Medicine
      • ExxonMobil
      • KBR

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 55 %
      • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? Yes

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 178

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 65
      • Non-Tenured: 80

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 16
      • Non-Tenured: 26

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 12
      • Non-Tenured: 21

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 65
      • Non-Tenured: 64

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: Each class travels to a country with their class and an instructor for seven days. The experience includes company visits to global companies, meetings with political figures, and free time to fully learn about the country.
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? No
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
      • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: A spouse/partner luncheon during EMBA orientation, EMBA BBQ with family and kids activities. A sponsors event where supervisors are invited to see what the employee is learning.
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 8

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 10 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 20 %
      • Lectures: 20 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 35 %
      • Other: 5 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 63 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 42 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 37

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 8
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 24
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Leading areas of study: Accounting, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Management Information Systems

    • Graduation Requirements:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Installation of a video wall with stock ticker, upgraded video conferencing, replaced printers in the student labs, wireless printing solution for students, added power outlets to student seating areas in classrooms, intranet portal dedicated solely for the use of student organizations, SEI-ISBM Educational Resource Portal, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution to track time and billing for class projects, implemented a Citrix based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in EILab
      • Amount spent: $2,160,655.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 11,442
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 2
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $284.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business school endowment $64,500,000.00
      • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? Yes
      • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • University alumni networking site: http://www.houstonalumni.com/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.bauer.uh.edu/alumni/
      • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Do EMBAs have access to career services? Yes
      • Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs? Yes
      • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: The college offers the same services to our non-sponsored Executive MBAs as we do to our traditional MBAs. Students and employers have been very receptive to this.

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