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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

McGill University

Desautels Faculty of Management

  • Program Basics

      • McGill-HEC Montréal Executive MBA Program
      • Desautels MBA Program - McGill University
      • 3000 Ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine
      • Montréal
      • Canada
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Length of program (months): 15

    • Classes meet:

        • Occasional week-long sessions
        • One weekend per month
        • Other

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $76,700.00
      • Non Resident: $76,700.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Other
      • Provincial accreditation, Quebec Ministere de l'education

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 435
      • Full-Time MBA: 145
      • Part-Time MBA: 45
      • Executive MBA: 80
      • PhD Program: 70
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,200
      • Other graduate degree programs: Other

  • ADMISSIONS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT Required? No
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No
      • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? We provide 2 options for tests: GMAT and TAGE MAGE, which is a French language test similar to GMAT. Test may be waived for those with superior qualifications, based on work experience and transcripts
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? No
      • Application fee: $125.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 203
      • Applicants accepted: 25 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 80 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 31 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

      • Female: 30 %
      • International: 8 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Africa: 5 %
      • Europe: 3 %
      • North America: 72 %
      • Dual citizenship: 20 %
      • Average months of work experience: 203

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 132
      • To: 276
      • Average age: 41

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 33
      • To: 47

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 23 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 5 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 23 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 28 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 80 %

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Finance/Accounting 8 %
      • General Management : 30 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 25 %
      • Management Information Systems : 5 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 15 %
      • Other: 12 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 7 %
      • Consumer Products: 13 %
      • Financial Services: 7 %
      • Government: 7 %
      • Manufacturing: 13 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 10 %
      • Non-Profit: 5 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 13 %
      • Real Estate: 5 %
      • Technology: 13 %
      • Other: 4 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Groupe Desjardins
      • Rio Tinto
      • National Bank
      • Government of Canada
      • Bell

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 4 %
      • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit, Need
      • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 0
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? No

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 97

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 35
      • Non-Tenured: 62

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: N/A
      • Non-Tenured: N/A

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 22

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: N/A
      • Non-Tenured: N/A

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 24
      • Non-Tenured: 41

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 35
      • Non-Tenured: 47

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: Worldly Mindset: 8 days of immersion to learn about difference between worldly & global, and to learn how to learn about a new part of the world
      • 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: Regular updates to sponsoring co & families; schedule of all due dates at start of year; 1/2 class time during working hours; 1/2 during weekends
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 10

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 15 %
      • Experiential Learning: 50 %
      • Lectures: 20 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 82 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 93 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 40
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 40

    • New electives added in past 12 months:

      • With faculty OK can audit fulltime MBA elective

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 13
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 15
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2008
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Leading areas of study: Leadership, General Management, Other
      • Description: Reflective, Analytic, Worldly, Collaborative, Catalytic

    • 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
        • Other
      • Complete a final paper that incorporates research and practical application of that research to the business world
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2008

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: 8-new classrooms-touch controls, Smart Board monitors; 2-new labs (~100 computers); 1-teaching lab (36 monitors and CPU's; New student lounge with plasma screens, surround sound; Classrooms with direct link to the internet; Wireless clickers for in-class surveys and exercises; New video-conferencing classroom; New trading floor to be completed in 2012.
      • Amount spent: $1,500,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 8,350
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 9
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 9
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 15
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,625.00
      • 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 $42,000,000.00
      • 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.mcgill.ca/aoc
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/alumni
      • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Do EMBAs have access to career services? No
      • Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs? No
      • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: Not permitted; exceptions allowed for those in transition who have not been sponsored by their companies

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • Additional school comments: Bilingual (English/French) pgm offered by McGill & HEC Montréal; joint degree & diploma. For experienced mgrs (min 10 yrs). Integrated; treats problems as they are found in business not by function. Learning built on experience & business situations of class.

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