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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Texas Christian University

Neeley School of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Neeley School of Business
      • TCU Box 298545
      • TX
      • Fort Worth, 76129, Texas
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Length of program (months): 16

    • Classes meet:

        • Alternate weekends
        • Days

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $82,500.00
      • Non Resident: $82,500.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 277
      • Full-Time MBA: 97
      • Part-Time MBA: 127
      • Executive MBA: 53
      • PhD Program: 0
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,739
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of International Management/Business

  • 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: $100.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 37
      • 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: 26 %
      • International: 0 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 0 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 100 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • Southwest: 91 %
      • South: 3 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 3 %
      • Northeast: 3 %

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

      • African American: 10 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 10 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 80 %
      • Average months of work experience: 16

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 9
      • To: 24
      • Average age: 39

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 31
      • To: 46

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 0 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 10 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 26 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 6 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 77 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $153,103.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $84,600.00
      • High: $268,000.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 3 %
      • Finance/Accounting 16 %
      • General Management : 23 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 29 %
      • Management Information Systems : 3 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 10 %
      • Other: 16 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consumer Products: 7 %
      • Financial Services: 9 %
      • Manufacturing: 25 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 9 %
      • Non-Profit: 9 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 9 %
      • Real Estate: 3 %
      • Technology: 7 %
      • Other: 19 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • BNSF Railway
      • Bell Helicopter Textron
      • Elbit Systems of America
      • Corning Cable Systems
      • Lockheed Martin

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 33 %
      • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit, Other
      • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 0
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? Only to domestic students
      • Maximum loan amount: $20,500.00

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 114

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 45
      • Non-Tenured: 38

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 31

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 5
      • Non-Tenured: 23

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 7
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 43
      • Non-Tenured: 31

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: Students must travel abroad for two weeks and present a plan for doing business abroad.
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
      • Description: We provide hotel accommodations during a 3.5 day orientation.
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
      • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: We offer a full day session during orientation that brings spouses and students together to learn about the program. We also offer other activities throughout the year for families, i.e, tailgates and holiday parties.
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 20

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 50 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 0 %
      • Lectures: 10 %
      • Simulations: 15 %
      • Team Projects: 25 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 73 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 73 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 31
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 0
      • Elective courses: 0

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 8
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 10
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2007
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Leading areas of study: Accounting, 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
        • Other
      • Students must complete a personal leadership action plan as part of the leadership development program.
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2007

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Office 2010 added to all computers in the business school, updated wireless infrastructure, updated content management system, Sedona software implementation. Server infrastructure upgrades to windows Server 2008 R2.
      • Amount spent: $750,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 3,469
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 4
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 20
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 2
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $3,697.00
      • 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 $67,912,000.00
      • 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.froglinks.com/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.neeley.tcu.edu/Alumni/Alumni.aspx
      • 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: EMBA Students must check in with the EMBA Office before approaching the Career Services office.

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