Program Basics

• • Executive MBA
  • Stephen M. Ross School of Business
  • 710 E. University
  • Suite 3600
  • Ann Arbor, 48109, Michigan
  • United States
  • Status:
    • Public
  • Length of program (months): 21

• Classes meet:

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

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $131,000.00
  • Non Resident: $136,000.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

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

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 1,914
  • Full-Time MBA: 1,046
  • Part-Time MBA: 432
  • Executive MBA: 129
  • PhD Program: 104
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,206
  • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other

ADMISSIONS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT Required? No
  • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? As part of the admissions process, we look for demonstrated capabilities of quantitative skills in a candidate's background. This can be evident from transcripts as well as current financial responsibilities. There is a quantitative skills workshop offered prior to the kickoff of the program.
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? No
  • Application fee: $200.00
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 76 %
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 97 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • Female: 20 %
  • International: 15 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 11 %
  • Europe: 2 %
  • North America: 85 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
  • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

  • West: 9 %
  • Midwest: 67 %
  • Southwest: 4 %
  • South: 4 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 11 %
  • Northeast: 4 %

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

  • African American: 4 %
  • Asian American: 18 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 6 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 2 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 61 %
  • Chose not to report: 9 %
• • Average months of work experience: 179

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 108
  • To: 252
• • Average age: 39

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 31
  • To: 50

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 35 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 11 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 11 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 28 %
  • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $160,381.00

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $67,000.00
  • High: $260,000.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 11 %
  • Finance/Accounting 11 %
  • General Management : 22 %
  • Human Resources: 2 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 7 %
  • Management Information Systems : 4 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 19 %
  • Other: 24 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 5 %
  • Consumer Products: 4 %
  • Financial Services: 7 %
  • Government: 7 %
  • Manufacturing: 26 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
  • Non-Profit: 9 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 4 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 22 %
  • Real Estate: 0 %
  • Technology: 9 %
  • Other: 7 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • Ford Motor Company
  • University of Michigan
  • IBM
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Ernst & Young

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 38 %
  • 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: 199

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 68
  • Non-Tenured: 62

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 13
  • Non-Tenured: 56

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 16
  • Non-Tenured: 33

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 24
  • Non-Tenured: 21

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 22
  • Non-Tenured: 30

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 81
  • Non-Tenured: 87

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? Yes
  • Description: Participants stay in the Executive Residence. An upscale lodging facility within our comprehensive living-learning enviornment.
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
  • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Family oriented programming, special events, newsletter, partners website and facilitated networking.
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 23

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods:

  • Case Study: 20 %
  • Distance Learning: 20 %
  • Experiential Learning: 20 %
  • Lectures: 10 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 90 %
  • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 95 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 43
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 43
  • Elective courses: 12

• New electives added in past 12 months:

  • Entrepreneurship

• Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

  • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 20
• • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2007
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
  • Leading areas of study: Entrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, 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
    • Present final company-specific project results to relevant parties
    • Other
  • All students participate in ExecMap, a field projects course in which students work in teams with organizations throughout the world on a consulting basis for a four month period of time between the first and second tears of the program.
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2007

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Room availability signage; iTunes U site; 6-seat multimedia production lab; Enterprise-enabled Instant Message and desktop video conference; 802.11n wireless; Microsoft SharePoint
  • Amount spent: $7,075,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 27,300
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 53
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 27
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 12
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $974.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $125.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $364,550,000.00
  • 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://alumni.umich.edu
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.bus.umich.edu/alumnicommunity
  • 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: Recruiters are encouraged to target self-funded EMBA students. We recetly launched a career services program designed for executive needs, including a dedicated executive career coach available to beoth EMBA studens and alumni.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • Additional school comments: The EMBA program is structured to meet the needs of individuals in senior management roles, focusing on strategy and leadership skills essential for professionals at the highest levels of any organization. The Ross EMBA program seeks to admit a class with as great a diversity of candidates as possible, across industries, financial areas, and companies. There is one admitted cohort per year in August.

• • -This program takes the input from the students seriously and has made steps for improvement. The lodging and classroom facilities were excellent, networking opportunities were created and fostered by program management, the professors were very engaged with the classes, and the hands-on/on-location international experience with the three month long ExecMap program was both a valuable professional and personal experience. The one weekend per month structure made it more "doable" in managing school, work and family. Lastly, I walked away from the program with a great understanding of how to apply what I learned from a managerial/executive standpoint - it allowed us to step back from the detailed theory and apply it in a different setting.
    
    -The grading system was a joke. The program would benefit from moving to a pass/fail system. Often times, we had no idea how the professor graded as we were going into the final exam. This detracted from my learning experience because time was spent worrying about ambiguous grading that could have been spent on learning.
    
    -I truly enjoyed our classroom discussions and debates, a big part of the learning experience - our group was very lively, highly participative. There was the right amount of theory and practice - I felt that all the tools and frameworks were directly actionable in my daily work, especially in strategy, marketing, finance and leadership. The execMAP provides an opportunity to work in an entrepreneurship/start-up environment, however the entrepreneurial classes could be further developed (I know this is in the works, based on student feedback during our program, the Ross EMBA team added entrepreneurship sessions to our program with a highly experienced VC/Marketing faculty professor - this was a real plus/bonus to the program).
    
    -The degree of customer service at Ross is truly outstanding. It seemed as though the administration always knew what was coming next and equipped us for it before we had to ask. While small in number relative to the scale of the full-time program, we EMBAs were truly made to feel a part of the Ross community.
    
    -One of the reasons I attended Michigan was because of the summer ExecMAP program. The experience exceeded expectations. Our team was able to develop a strategic marketing plan for U.S. entry with an Israeli start-up, while working in Paris for one week. The ExecMAP creates an opportunity to apply what we're learning in strategy, marketing, and finance classes to an actual company while working in an advisory role. The experience was life changing. The ExecMAP is another touch that makes the program world-class.
    
    -I would have benefitted from increased curriculum focused on the areas of strength - finance, marketing and strategy, rather than dedicating as much time as we spent on leadership and personal development.
    
    -I cannot think of a more supportive team and structure (logistics, room, amazing new building and very comfortable executive residency). The EMBA team was extremely devoted to all participants and fostering teamwork, and a sense of community...even (and especially) after hours! I liked the fact that all classmates had to spend the night at the executive residency and hence were always available for after class networking, dinners, etc.
    
    -The school needs to continue to scrutinize applicant pool and faculty/lecturer pool. While technology and facilities are strong attractions, the people of Ross (cohort and educators) were the most valuable drivers for my experience. Career resource expansion would also be helpful, as many students now self-fund with the economic downturn and are in need of deeply experienced and well-connected search experts from executive-level agencies.
    
    -The Ross Executive MBA program clearly exceeded my expectations (quality of the faculty, level of expectation, ExecMAP project, diversity and caliper of participants, team work). The program could certainly attract additional international participants, building on the Ross / University of Michigan global brand. I hope it will remain a highly selective program in the future and continue to attract the best participants from all industries. I highly recommend the Ross Executive MBA.
    
    -I’d like to see more keynote speaker programs with industry titans or captains of leadership and more exposure to full-time program offerings or partnerships.
    
    -Michigan has improved dramatically to offer career services. However actual job placement for applicable executive positions would be more helpful as a larger portion of EMBA's are funding tuition on their own and looking for a career change.
    
    -The class requested more insights into entrepreneurship, which was addressed by a two-day session during the final weekend. It whetted the appetite of many in the class on the topic that future curriculums should include. Human resources is another topic that could be addressed in future curriculums in more detail.