Program Basics

• • Executive MBA Program
  • David Eccles School of Business
  • 1645 E. Campus Center Dr.
  • CRCC 125
  • Salt Lake City, 84112, Utah
  • United States of America
  • Status:
    • Public
  • Length of program (months): 21

• Classes meet:

  • • Alternate weekends

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $67,000.00
  • Non Resident: $67,000.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

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

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 937
  • Full-Time MBA: 184
  • Part-Time MBA: 317
  • Executive MBA: 138
  • PhD Program: 66
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 3,470
  • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, 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? Undergraduate performance in prerequisites

• 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: $55.00
  • Number of applications to the newest class: 125
  • Applicants accepted: 66 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 84 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 6
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 1
  • 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: 10 %
  • International: 3 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 0 %
  • Europe: 1 %
  • North America: 92 %
  • Oceania: 1 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
  • Dual citizenship: 6 %

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

  • West: 92 %
  • Midwest: 0 %
  • Southwest: 4 %
  • South: 0 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
  • Northeast: 4 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

  • African American: 0 %
  • Asian American: 3 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 3 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 94 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Average months of work experience: 156

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 72
  • To: 288
• • Average age: 38

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 30
  • To: 49

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 16 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 14 %
  • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 26 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 10 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 93 %
  • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $110,138.00

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $88,000.00
  • High: $225,000.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 2 %
  • Finance/Accounting 20 %
  • General Management : 20 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 10 %
  • Management Information Systems : 5 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 20 %
  • Other: 5 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 1 %
  • Consumer Products: 1 %
  • Financial Services: 12 %
  • Government: 1 %
  • Manufacturing: 7 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
  • Non-Profit: 15 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 11 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 9 %
  • Real Estate: 3 %
  • Technology: 10 %
  • Other: 20 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • University of Utah
  • Zions Bank
  • Intermountain Healthcare
  • L-3 Communication
  • Kennecott Utah Copper

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 42 %
  • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Neither
  • 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: 148

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 44
  • Non-Tenured: 21

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 83

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 13
  • Non-Tenured: 7

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 2
  • Non-Tenured: 13

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 11
  • Non-Tenured: 15

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 44
  • Non-Tenured: 45

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: 10-12 Day International Field Study, visiting 2-3 Company's a day
  • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
  • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
  • Description: Hotel lodging during Intensive Weeks
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
  • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Spouse/Parter event designed to help with communication, Family Events, Study Sessions
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 10

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods:

  • Case Study: 15 %
  • Distance Learning: 5 %
  • Experiential Learning: 15 %
  • Lectures: 40 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 40 %
  • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 86 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 68
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 68
  • 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: 16
• • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2009
  • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
  • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/ME (Engineering), MBA/MHSA (Health Services Administration), MBA/March (Architecture)
  • Leading areas of study: Accounting, Finance, International Business, Leadership, Strategy

• 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
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2009

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Construction completed on Phase 1 of new building to house the David Eccles School of Business. The building is a state-of-the-art facility, which includes the very latest in classroom technology. You name it, we got it.
  • Amount spent: $68,000,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 5,600
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 7
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $325.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $75.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $45,000,000.00
  • 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.alumni.utah.edu/
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? No
  • 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? No
  • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: Do not support it

• • -The school should focus on the soft skills. The hard skills were focused on so heavily, yet as an executive 80 percent of my time is spent managing people not numbers. I needed to understand the numbers and where they come from not how to create them.
    
    -Our class size was 65 people. Even after 21 months, there were members of the class that you didn't know very well. I think a class size of 50 may have been more beneficial.
    
    -There was too much theory and not enough real world [applications].
    
    -The staff and students were great and provided a great learning environment. The staff bent over backward to provide for every need. I don't know that the school can improve the experience.
    
    -I would have liked more leadership and international classes. Global exposure would have been useful.
    
    -Generally, I would like to have been provided with a greater opportunity to meet recruiters and the like to change my career.
    
    -The school could include a semester or two of foreign language training for the selected international studies trip.
    
    -Overall, this was a rewarding experience. I was challenged in multiple ways and feel a great sense of accomplishment. Students in the program are treated as executives by staff and are well supported. The EMBA program at the University of Utah is a great program.
    
    -There should be more personal/individual accountability. The program really stressed team/group work, which is great. However, that could lend itself to some slackers. Each class should have a mix of equal parts group assignments and individual quizzes/tests. In addition, more role plays/practice would be more effective than constant lectures and note taking.
    
    -The school should better define the roll and preparation for the two-week international trip at the end of the program. Part of the problem was the fact that we had to modify the trip because of the tsunami in Japan.
    
    -If you live in Utah or the surrounding area, I would strongly encourage you to consider the EMBA at the University of Utah. I visited many other MBA programs when considering my schooling, including Wharton, Harvard, Tuck, and Berkeley. In all my visits, I never saw the caliber of discussion and interaction I routinely experienced at the University of Utah EMBA. This program would be a steal at three times the price, but when you look at the cost, it is a no brainer. I cannot recommend this program highly enough.