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Full-Time MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

University of Alberta

School of Business

  • Program Basics

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 454
      • Full-Time MBA: 142
      • Part-Time MBA: 278
      • Executive MBA: 34
      • PhD Program: 53
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Other
      • Master of Financial Management

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

      • Resident: $25,500.00
      • Nonresident: $47,500.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $25,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $37,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 20

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Apr 30, 2012
      • Does the program have rolling admissions? Yes
      • Is proficiency in English required for admission? Yes
      • Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required? Yes

    • Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

        • IELTS
        • TOEFL Internet Based Test
        • TOEFL Paper-based Test
      • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 600

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

      • GMAT Score: Important
      • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
      • Application Essays: Important
      • Interviews: Very Important
      • Recommendations: Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 275
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 42 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 64 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 1 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 0 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 48 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 65 %
      • Applications from women received: 27 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • Full-time students in newest entering class (2010-2011) that are:

      • Female: 27 %
      • International: 46 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 1 %
      • Asia: 34 %
      • Europe: 8 %
      • North America: 54 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 1 %
      • Oceania: 1 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 59
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 46

    • Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

      • From: 26
      • To: 108
      • Median age of entering class: 27
      • Mean age of entering class: 28

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 100 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $6,028.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $7,600.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • a combination of need and merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? As part of the admissions application
      • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $6,028.00
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 90 %
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? No

  • GMAT

      • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 25th Percentile 570
      • 50th Percentile (median) 610
      • 10th Percentile 530
      • 75th Percentile 650
      • 90th Percentile 692
      • Average GMAT Score 606

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 10th Percentile 530
      • 75th Percentile 660
      • 50th Percentile (median) 600
      • 25th Percentile 570
      • Average GMAT Score 610
      • 90th Percentile 708

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 35
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 20
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 78

    • Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2010:

      • Real Estate Asset Strategies
      • Culture and Creativity: Music and Business
      • Managing Arts Organizations
      • Innovation and Sustainability: Cleantech Revolution
      • Advising Family Business

    • Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

        • Finance
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Public Policy
        • Corporate Social Responsibility
        • International Business
        • Sports Business
      • Natural Resources, Energy and Environment

    • Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

        • MBA/JD (Law)
        • MBA/MD (Medicine)
        • Other
        • MBA/ME (Engineering)
      • Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program? Yes

    • The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:

        • Finance
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Other
        • International Business
        • Public Administration

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 109

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 60
      • Non-Tenured: 49

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 8
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 52
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 42
      • Non-Tenured: 35

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 59
      • Non-Tenured: 42

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Biotech/Health care
        • Environmental

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 40 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 20 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties
        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: The most important technological improvement in the last three years involved a conversion from traditional IT infrastructure to virtual computing. The Alberta School of Business has invested over a quarter of a million dollars in virtual computing architecture. This new architecture has become the foundation for the delivery of most IT services.
      • Amount spent: $2,000,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 3,180
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 56
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 23
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 12 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $236.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $20.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $75,524,083.00
      • 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.olcnetwork.net/ualberta
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
      • Does the B-SCHOOL offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 89 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 9 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 2 %

    • Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

      • Destination: Calgary
      • Month: September
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: Calgary
      • Month: February
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: Toronto
      • Month: January
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 23 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 59 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 18 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 26 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 60 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 14 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 24 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 62 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 14 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Alberta Investment Management Corporation 4
      • Northern Alberta Institute of Technology 3
      • EPCOR 2
      • Alberta Energy 1
      • Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures 1
      • General Electric 1
      • IBM 1
      • Union Securities 1
      • Spectra Energy 1
      • Upside Software 1
      • Burrill & Company 1
      • ATB Financial 1
      • Enbridge 1
      • PWC 1
      • Shell 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 3 %

    • Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

      • Mean base salary: $81,489.00
      • Median base salary: $76,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $22,000.00
      • Median signing bonus: $22,000.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $16,333.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $10,000.00

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

      • Consulting: 6 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 31 %
      • General Management: 3 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 9 %
      • Management Information Systems: 13 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 16 %
      • Other: 22 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 9 %
      • Consulting: 3 %
      • Consumer Products: 3 %
      • Financial Services: 25 %
      • Manufacturing: 3 %
      • Non-Profit: 3 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 13 %
      • Real Estate: 3 %
      • Technology: 16 %
      • Other: 22 %

    • Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

      • Europe: 3 %
      • North America: 97 %

    • Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

      • AIMCo 2
      • ATB 2
      • Finning 4
      • Alberta Energy 2
      • Alberta Innovates 1
      • Bennet Jones 1
      • Edmonton Tourism 1
      • Edmonton Economic Development Corp 1
      • Northlands 1
      • Auditor General of Alberta 1
      • Sierra Systems 1
      • Alberta Finance 1
      • Canadian Western Bank 1
      • Downtown Business Association 1
      • Champion Pet Foods 1
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 100 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $3,750.00
      • Median: $3,750.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 16

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