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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Pamplin College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Pamplin College of Business - Graduate Program
      • 7054 Haycock Road
      • Suite 368
      • Falls Church, 22043, Virginia
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Length of program (months): 18

    • Classes meet:

        • Alternate weekends

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $79,500.00
      • Non Resident: $79,500.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 521
      • Full-Time MBA: 94
      • Part-Time MBA: 126
      • Executive MBA: 59
      • PhD Program: 63
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 3,690
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other, Master of Technology, Master of Marketing

  • 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? Overall GPA calculations; GPA calculation on the last 60 creidt hours; transcripts, professional experience, professional certificates.
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? No
      • Application fee: $90.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 29
      • Applicants accepted: 96 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 85 %
      • 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: 13 %
      • International: 0 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • North America: 100 %

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

      • Mid-Atlantic: 100 %

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

      • African American: 8 %
      • Asian American: 21 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 71 %
      • Average months of work experience: 165

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 96
      • To: 216
      • Average age: 37

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 30
      • To: 41

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 6 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 1 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 3 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 0 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 22 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $115,812.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $75,000.00
      • High: $165,000.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 17 %
      • Finance/Accounting 13 %
      • General Management : 25 %
      • Human Resources: 4 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 8 %
      • Management Information Systems : 21 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 4 %
      • Other: 8 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 50 %
      • Consumer Products: 8 %
      • Financial Services: 4 %
      • Government: 8 %
      • Non-Profit: 1 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 8 %
      • Real Estate: 4 %
      • Technology: 17 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Booz Allen Hamilton
      • L3. Communications
      • SAIC
      • CSC
      • IBM

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 83 %
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? Only to domestic students

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 131

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 73
      • Non-Tenured: 45

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Non-Tenured: 13

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 17
      • Non-Tenured: 22

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 13
      • Non-Tenured: 9

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 5
      • Non-Tenured: 15

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 73
      • Non-Tenured: 33

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: Creation of a blog or summary of corporate visits; letters to CEO of company and memo to immediate supervisor.
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
      • Description: Lodging during 4 day orientation; 2 day residency to NYC and 10 day international trip.
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? No
      • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Career coaching services provided by a local career coaching services company.
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 10

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 50 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • Team Projects: 20 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 95 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 90 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 21

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 14
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 20
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2009
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Leading areas of study: Finance, International Business, 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
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2009

    • Domestic partnerships or in-house EMBA programs:

      • Booz Allen Hamilton
      • L3 Communications
      • Lee Technologies
      • Computer Science Corporation, CSC
      • SAIC (Corp. alliance, not a partnership agreement)

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Upgraded physical networks to 100BaseT. Strong, reliable wireless network in 100% of Business academic buildings. Incoming students receive Windows 7/Office 2010 + all future updates as part of student fees. Upgraded public computer lab with new computers running Windows 7 64bit and maintain a classroom-style lab running Windows 7. Bloomberg terminals available for student use in the computer lab and student organization offices.
      • Amount spent: $500,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 4,601
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 11
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $542.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business school endowment $65,219,713.00
      • 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: https://secure.hosting.vt.edu/alumni.vt.edu/HokieNation/auth/login.php
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.pamplin.vt.edu/alumni/index.html
      • 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? No
      • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: No specific policy. Any recruiter is conducted outside the school.

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