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

Baruch College

Zicklin School of Business

  • Program Basics

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 2,473
      • Full-Time MBA: 122
      • Part-Time MBA: 1,352
      • Executive MBA: 42
      • PhD Program: 61
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Master of Electronic Commerce/Information Systems
        • Master of Finance
        • Other
        • Master of Marketing
      • MS In Financial Statement Analysis; MS in Entrepreneurship; MS in Statistics; MS in Quantitative Methods and Modeling; MS in Taxation

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $28,736.00
      • Nonresident: $51,356.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $26,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $26,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 22

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Jan 15, 2012
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Apr 15, 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?

        • TOEFL Internet Based Test
        • TOEFL Paper-based Test
      • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 610

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 243
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 47 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 53 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 2 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 80 %
      • 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: 59 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 63 %
      • Applications from women received: 32 %
      • Mean base salary forgone: $56,304.00
      • Median base salary forgone: $51,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 31 %
      • International: 39 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 3 %
      • Asia: 24 %
      • Europe: 8 %
      • North America: 62 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

    • Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class that are:

      • African American: 5 %
      • Asian American: 11 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 3 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 8 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 61 %
      • Chose not to report: 8 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class who are from the following regions:

      • Northeast: 92 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 3 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 5 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 62
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 50

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

      • From: 24
      • To: 120
      • Median age of entering class: 28
      • Mean age of entering class: 29

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
      • Full-time MBAs who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 25 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 25 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $8,460.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $8,458.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • academic merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? all candidates are considered for scholarship
      • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $5,068.00
      • 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):

      • 75th Percentile 660
      • 10th Percentile 500
      • 25th Percentile 550
      • 90th Percentile 700
      • Average GMAT Score 598
      • 50th Percentile (median) 605

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 580
      • 90th Percentile 700
      • 10th Percentile 550
      • 50th Percentile (median) 635
      • 75th Percentile 668
      • Average GMAT Score 627

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 62
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 32
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 137

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

      • Sustainability in Supply Chains and Operations
      • Principles of Forensic Accounting
      • Real Estate Principles for Managers
      • Business Modeling with Spreadsheets
      • Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development

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

        • Finance
        • Management Information Systems
        • Entrepreneurship
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Health Care Administration
        • Real Estate
        • Accounting
        • Operations Management
        • Economics
        • Organizational Behavior
        • International Business
        • Tax
        • Statistics and Operations Research

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

        • MBA/JD (Law)
      • Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program? No

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

        • Finance
        • Marketing
        • Real Estate
        • Accounting
        • Organizational Behavior

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 421

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 131

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Non-Tenured: 234

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Finance
        • Marketing
        • Media & Entertainment
        • E-business

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Black MBA Association
        • Hispanic Student Organization
        • International Club
        • Women in MBA
        • Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

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

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Other
      • All students are required to choose and satisfy the requirements for a major program of study and take an intergrative capstone course

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 108
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 12
      • 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://alumni.baruch.cuny.edu/
      • 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: 83 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 9 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 8 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 43 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 54 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 3 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 44 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 11 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 44 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 39 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 13 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 48 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • PriceWaterhouseCoppers 5
      • Ernst & Young 3
      • JPMorgan Chase 2
      • Colgate Palmolive 1
      • KPMG 1
      • PepsiCo 1
      • Peter Thomas Roth 1
      • David Yurman 1
      • Experion 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 35 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $81,678.00
      • Median base salary: $79,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $16,778.00
      • Median signing bonus: $15,000.00

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

      • Consulting: 14 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 50 %
      • General Management: 4 %
      • Human Resources: 4 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 7 %
      • Management Information Systems: 4 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 11 %
      • Other: 6 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 7 %
      • Consumer Products: 14 %
      • Financial Services: 65 %
      • Manufacturing: 0 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 0 %
      • Real Estate: 7 %
      • Technology: 0 %
      • Other: 7 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 7 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 89 %
      • Oceania: 4 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

    • Within the U.S., graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

      • Northeast: 100 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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