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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

University of Miami

School of Business Administration

  • Program Basics

      • School of Business Administration
      • 5250 University Drive
      • 221 Jenkins Building
      • Coral Gables, 33146, Florida
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Length of program (months): 23

    • Classes meet:

        • Every weekend
        • One weekend per month
        • Evenings

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $76,000.00
      • Non Resident: $76,000.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other
      • SACS

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 602
      • Full-Time MBA: 193
      • Part-Time MBA: 0
      • Executive MBA: 309
      • PhD Program: 26
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,935
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, 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? The Admission Committee assess an applicant's professional work experience and career progression as well as their undergraduate performance, letters of recommendation, leadership qualities, essays and interview performance.

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • Average GMAT Score N/A
      • 10th Percentile N/A
      • 25th Percentile N/A
      • 50th Percentile (median) N/A
      • 75th Percentile N/A
      • 90th Percentile N/A

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • Average GMAT Score N/A
      • 10th Percentile N/A
      • 25th Percentile N/A
      • 50th Percentile (median) N/A
      • 75th Percentile N/A
      • 90th Percentile N/A
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
      • Application fee: $100.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 118
      • Applicants accepted: 72 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 69 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 100 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

      • Female: 16 %
      • International: 10 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 0 %
      • Europe: 3 %
      • North America: 90 %
      • 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: 0 %
      • South: 98 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 2 %

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

      • African American: 6 %
      • Asian American: 11 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 46 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 35 %
      • Chose not to report: 2 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Average months of work experience: 171

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 72
      • To: 288
      • Average age: 39

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 29
      • To: 50

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 32 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 3 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 60 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 17 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 92 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $172,424.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $60,000.00
      • High: $300,000.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Finance/Accounting 29 %
      • General Management : 16 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 15 %
      • Management Information Systems : 1 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 5 %
      • Other: 29 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 2 %
      • Consumer Products: 2 %
      • Financial Services: 10 %
      • Government: 3 %
      • Manufacturing: 2 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 6 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 64 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 3 %
      • Other: 8 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Signature Health
      • University of Miami
      • Cargill
      • FedEx
      • Citigroup

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 29 %
      • 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: 164

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 57
      • Non-Tenured: 107

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 28

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 12
      • Non-Tenured: 40

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 22
      • Non-Tenured: 41

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 30

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 57
      • Non-Tenured: 68

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? No
      • 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
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 6

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 50 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 60 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 77 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 29
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 29
      • Elective courses: 40

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 8
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 12
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2010
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MD (Medicine), Other
      • Leading areas of study: Entrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, General Management

    • 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
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2010

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Additional high performance computing cluster of nodes for research, behavioral marketing research lab, online information research library entirely online, portal, Web and email hosting for all students, three new student computing labs with iMacs and Quad Core PCs, Virtual Server Infrastructure, Storage Area Networks for Six Terabytes of Storage, UBusiness iPhone and iPad Application, Cloud Based Computing Clusters, Upgraded Digital Library Terminals, and Echo 360 Remote Learning System.
      • Amount spent: $1,963,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 11,339
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $477.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • 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: https://www.miamialumni.net/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • 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? 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: As long as the EMBA is not sponsored or reimbursed by their company, they are provided career services.

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • Additional school comments: The Executive MBA program is offered on the main campus in Miami, as well as off-campus in Palm Beach, Fla. and San Juan, Puerto Rico. In addition to the regular Executive MBA programs, there is an Executive MBA in Health Sector Management and Policy program for physicians and other individuals in the health care industry, which meets one Saturday per month for 23 months. There is also a Global Executive MBA program taught entirely in Spanish, designed for executives working in Latin America.

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