Program Basics

• • Saïd Business School
  • Saïd Business School
  • Park End Street
  • Oxford OX1 1HP
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain
  • Status:
    • Public
  • Length of program (months): 21

• Classes meet:

  • • Occasional week-long sessions

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $85,000.00
  • Non Resident: $85,000.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

  • • Association of MBAs (AMBA)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 459
  • Full-Time MBA: 248
  • Executive MBA: 52
  • PhD Program: 9
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 348
  • Other graduate degree programs: Other

ADMISSIONS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT Required? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 0 (option: 0) 664
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
  • Application fee: $245.00
  • Applicants accepted: 67 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 79 %
  • Applicant interviews are: Required
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 90 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

CLASS PROFILE

• EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

  • International: 75 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 10 %
  • Asia: 15 %
  • Europe: 50 %
  • North America: 19 %
  • Oceania: 4 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
  • Dual citizenship: 13 %
• • Average months of work experience: 156

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 72
  • To: 240
• • Average age: 37

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 30
  • To: 45

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 27 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 15 %
  • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 52 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 12 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 11 %

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 15 %
  • Finance/Accounting 27 %
  • General Management : 38 %
  • Management Information Systems : 6 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 6 %
  • Other: 8 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 23 %
  • Financial Services: 11 %
  • Government: 2 %
  • Manufacturing: 6 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 2 %
  • Non-Profit: 15 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 9 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 2 %
  • Real Estate: 8 %
  • Technology: 19 %
  • Other: 3 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • Vodafone Group
  • Novak Druce & Quigg LLP
  • IBM UK Ltd
  • Hitachi Chemical Co Ltd
  • Accenture

FINANCIAL AID

• • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? No

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 74

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 53
  • Non-Tenured: 8

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 16

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 7
  • Non-Tenured: 5

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 30
  • Non-Tenured: 10

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 53
  • Non-Tenured: 18

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: Overseas module, a week-long module that takes place outside the UK and is an intensive week of study and visits built around an important international theme.
  • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? No
  • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
  • Description: flats or five star hotel accommodation
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 45

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods:

  • Case Study: 35 %
  • Lectures: 52 %
  • Simulations: 8 %
  • Team Projects: 5 %
• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 70 %
  • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 80 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 52
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 38
  • Elective courses: 15

• New electives added in past 12 months:

  • Behavioural Finance
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Designing Better Futures
  • Corporate Turnaround

• Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

  • Hours per week in class: 30
  • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 10
• • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2009
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
  • Leading areas of study: Entrepreneurship, Finance, Strategy, General Management, Operations Management

• Graduation Requirements:

  • • Write a complete business plan
    • Other
  • Students must pass at least 7 core courses in addition to Understanding General Management (Module 1), pass both projects (Entrepreneurial Project and International Module Project) and at least 7 elective courses in order to obtain the degree.
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2009

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: A new website was launched in 2009. New blog platforms. CareerConnect platform (job database available for students). Enhanced AV provision. Email and calendar system.
  • Amount spent: $118,515.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 2,321
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 26
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 9
  • 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.alumni.ox.ac.uk/
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.oba.co.uk/
  • 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: The Careers Centre welcomes targeted recruitment activities and works with recruiters to ensure their opportunities are promoted to the most appropriate constituency based on the role requirements and person specification.

• • -It is hard to quantify the value of the Oxford EMBA program. Was it difficult to fit into work/life? Yes! But did it completely challenge my perspective, thought process, skill set, and introduce me to life-long friends? Yes!
    
    -The group was highly diverse and very inspiring. One could get the best out of the friendships and opportunities the school managed to put together. It passed my expectations because I would have never thought to run two new businesses after the program. I am extremely glad.
    
    -My main reason for applying to Said Business School was the unique environment of an old university with high standards and a young, modern business school where the focus is not on getting a manual on how to act in certain conditions, but rather to understand the underlying causes and relations to be able to come up with unique solutions. An inspiring environment in which very diverse colleagues reflect on problems from very different angles, guided by extraordinary lecturers. Where else do you get a lecturer in accounting who actually has a Ph.D. in philosophy?
    
    -I was glad I went to Oxford. I have learned a considerable amount. I was unsure of what an EMBA could teach me after 21 years in business, but I have been pleasantly surprised.
    
    -The proportion of electives could be increased. The execs know the basic stuff, but they come to develop competences in specific areas.
    
    -It was an excellent and unique program, not just an EMBA but a wider education, including a full exploration of corporate social responsibility and the role we have to play in it.
    
    -Adding more electives, as is the case with full-time MBAs, would be helpful. The careers center was excellent but only after I initiated things because I left my old job. Traditionally, companies sponsored EMBA students, so there would be a conflict of interest with a strong career center presence. But because of the economic climate, only a handful of classmates received company funding. For the rest of us who were self-funded, it would be useful to take advantage of the excellent career services available to the full-time MBAs.
    
    -This was a great EMBA program! Oxford has put in much effort in making this one of the top EMBA programs in the world, and the students have enjoyed strong bonds of friendship. They also have learned much from each other. Faculty and staff are very experienced and helpful.
    
    -I would have preferred less traditional, detailed finance study, (I have departments to do this for me) and more about running businesses and managing people, and making decisions and judgments.
    
    -Oxford should put more effort in promoting the successes of its student body. There are some groundbreakers.