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

University of Florida

Hough Graduate School of Business

  • Program Basics

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,560
      • Full-Time MBA: 118
      • Part-Time MBA: 459
      • Executive MBA: 97
      • PhD Program: 79
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Master of Electronic Commerce/Information Systems
        • Master of Finance
        • Master of Marketing
        • Master of International Management/Business

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $24,908.00
      • Nonresident: $59,695.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $27,620.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $45,014.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 22

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Summer 2012
      • Deadline: Dec 16, 2011
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Feb 17, 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
        • U Michigan Language Test
      • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 550

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 217
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 24 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 40 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 1 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 67 %
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 44 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 59 %
      • Applications from women received: 36 %
      • Mean base salary forgone: $60,264.00
      • Median base salary forgone: $54,868.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 43 %
      • International: 29 %
      • Married: 10 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 29 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 71 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
      • Oceania: 0 %

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

      • African American: 0 %
      • Asian American: 7 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 86 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 0 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 7 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 7 %
      • South: 80 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 7 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 60
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 58

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

      • From: 36
      • To: 87
      • Median age of entering class: 27
      • Mean age of entering class: 28

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school
      • Full-time MBAs who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 79 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 67 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $20,506.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $14,191.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • academic 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: $10,046.00
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 90 %
      • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $8,471.00

  • GMAT

      • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 640
      • Average GMAT Score 618
      • 25th Percentile 590
      • 75th Percentile 690
      • 90th Percentile 710
      • 10th Percentile 490

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 75th Percentile 700
      • 10th Percentile 640
      • 50th Percentile (median) 680
      • 25th Percentile 650
      • 90th Percentile 720
      • Average GMAT Score 678

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 21
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 35
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 92

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

      • Art and Science of Pricing
      • Financial Management of Multinational Corporations

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

        • Finance
        • Entrepreneurship
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Real Estate
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Human Resource Management
        • International Business
        • Sports Business

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

        • MBA/MS (Science)
        • MBA/JD (Law)
        • MBA/MD (Medicine)
        • MBA/PhD
        • MBA/MIM (International Management)
      • 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
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Leadership
        • Strategy

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 126

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 63
      • Non-Tenured: 49

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 14

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 24

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 13
      • Non-Tenured: 5

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4
      • Non-Tenured: 17

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 63
      • Non-Tenured: 54

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Consulting
        • Marketing
        • Nonprofit

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA
        • Volunteer

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 40 %
      • Simulations: 0 %
      • Team Projects: 30 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • 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: 17 breakout rooms with flat screen monitors; Capital Market Lab with 9 dual monitor Bloomberg terminals; technology refresh in 5 classrooms – high resolution projectors, dual independent projection systems, AV automation, etc.; deployed a new online learning management system with a greater feature set including blogging, wikis, etc.; expanded our Microsoft Campus Agreement to cover all students; deployed new color and B&W laser printers in all student study/work areas
      • Amount spent: $1,400,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 7,427
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 98
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 8
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 4 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $10,402.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $152,493,495.00
      • 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://gnn.ufalumni.ufl.edu
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://linkedin.com
      • 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: 70 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 30 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

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

      • Destination: NBMBAA Career Fair
      • Month: September
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: NSHMBAA Career Fair
      • Month: October
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: Jacksonville Corporate Site Visit
      • Month: October
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: Orlando Corporate Site Visit
      • Month: November
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: Joint Career Fair with other Universities
      • Month: February
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 63 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 37 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 74 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 9 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 13 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 57 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 26 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 13 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Burger King Corporation 2
      • LNR Property Inc. 2
      • Volkswagen 1
      • Walt Disney 1
      • CSX 1
      • ExxonMobil 1
      • Procter & Gamble 1
      • Toys R' Us 1
      • Medtronic 1
      • Citrix 1
      • Con-Way 1
      • FXI 1
      • Plasma-Therm 1
      • UFICO 1
      • UMA 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 42 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $74,571.00
      • Median base salary: $73,500.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $9,465.00
      • Median signing bonus: $3,600.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $10,500.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $10,500.00

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

      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 37 %
      • General Management: 0 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 5 %
      • Management Information Systems: 11 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 21 %
      • Other: 21 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 0 %
      • Consumer Products: 21 %
      • Financial Services: 5 %
      • Manufacturing: 5 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 11 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
      • Real Estate: 11 %
      • Technology: 5 %
      • Other: 37 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 5 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 95 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 11 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 6 %
      • South: 56 %
      • Southwest: 5 %
      • Midwest: 17 %
      • West: 5 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

      • Jabil 2
      • The Home Depot 1
      • Raymond James 1
      • NextEra Energy 1
      • Williams Companies 1
      • Johnson & Johnson 1
      • Walt Disney 1
      • Procter & Gamble 1
      • Citi 1
      • SumTotal 1
      • ESPN 1
      • Bridgestone/Firestone 1
      • BB&T Bank 1
      • FBI 1
      • Koss-Olinger 1
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 77 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $833.00
      • Median: $703.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 10

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • School Comments: The data provided in this profile represents our Two-Year Traditional MBA class which began in August of 2011. We enroll a total of 118 full-time students in our two One-Year programs, and second year students in our Two-Year program.

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