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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Yale University

Yale School of Management

  • Program Basics

      • Yale MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare
      • Yale School of Management
      • 135 Prospect Street
      • CT
      • New Haven, 06511, Connecticut
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Length of program (months): 22

    • Classes meet:

        • Alternate weekends

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $142,000.00
      • Non Resident: $142,000.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

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

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 541
      • Full-Time MBA: 475
      • Executive MBA: 33
      • PhD Program: 33

  • ADMISSIONS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT Required? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes
      • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? GRE scores allowed with approval.

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 600
      • 10th Percentile 560
      • 50th Percentile (median) 640
      • Average GMAT Score 655
      • 75th Percentile 720
      • 90th Percentile 750
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? No
      • Application fee: $225.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 45
      • Applicants accepted: 64 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 62 %
      • Applicant interviews are: Required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 73 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

      • Female: 18 %
      • International: 6 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Asia: 6 %
      • North America: 94 %
      • Dual citizenship: 35 %

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

      • West: 13 %
      • Midwest: 6 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 13 %
      • Northeast: 68 %

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

      • Asian American: 50 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 13 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 37 %
      • Average months of work experience: 156

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 84
      • To: 252
      • Average age: 36

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 31
      • To: 39

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 71 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 35 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 24 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 24 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 29 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $186,000.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $66,000.00
      • High: $340,000.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 6 %
      • Finance/Accounting 6 %
      • General Management : 29 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 12 %
      • Management Information Systems : 6 %
      • Other: 41 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Non-Profit: 35 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 24 %
      • Other: 41 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Aetna
      • Pfizer
      • Putnam Associates
      • Boehringer Ingelheim
      • Information Technologies

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 35 %
      • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit, Need
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? No

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 94

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 33
      • Non-Tenured: 34

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 27

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 14

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 6
      • Non-Tenured: 9

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 14

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 33
      • Non-Tenured: 49

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? No
      • Description: International Experience Trip is optional to EMBA students.
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
      • Description: local hotel/lodging
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
      • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Buddy System. Peer Navigators.
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 50

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 40 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 40 %
      • Simulations: 0 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 100 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 90 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 17
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 16
      • Elective courses: 13

    • New electives added in past 12 months:

      • Healthcare Finance
      • Negotiation
      • Coaching for Executives
      • Integrated Leadership Perspective

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 14
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 24
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2010
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MD (Medicine), Other, MBA/PhD, MBA/MA (Arts), MBA/March (Architecture)
      • Leading areas of study: Finance, Leadership, Strategy, General Management, Other
      • Description: Healthcare Management

    • Graduation Requirements:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades
        • Write a complete business plan
        • Other
      • Students must complete an Independent Study.
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2010

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Deployed enhanced videoconferencing systems to enable virtual classroom visits from business leaders. Updated video production capabilities in support of curricular innovations, multi-media business cases, and other school activities. Expanded research computing hardware and software. Augmented online delivery of news, events, and timely content to Yale SOM community. Introduced collaboration tools for Executive MBA program. Installed school-wide digital on-site communications system.
      • Amount spent: $15,074,563.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 6,221
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 22
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 5
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 46
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $5,380.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $150.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? Yes
      • Business school endowment $536,257,204.00
      • 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.alumniconnections.com/yale
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://mba.yale.edu/alumni/online-resources/index
      • 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: School will offer recruiters access to students resumes only with written approval of student.

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • Additional school comments: Integrated core curriculum-The integrated core curriculum is designed around the cross-functional way contemporary organizations work. Students learn to draw on a wide range of skills and resources in problem solving. Career Services – provide career management services to help students build a personal brand and reach their career goals. On-campus recruiting is not a focal element of the services due to their limited time on campus.

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