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

Fordham University

Graduate School of Business Administration

  • Program Basics

      • MBA Full-time program
      • Graduate School of Business Administration
      • 113 West 60th St.
      • NY
      • New York, 10023, New York
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://www.bnet.fordham.edu
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: admissionsgb@fordham.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,497
      • Full-Time MBA: 550
      • Part-Time MBA: 476
      • Executive MBA: 90
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Other
      • Master of Science and Taxation; Master of Science in Quantitative Finance; Master of Science in Communications and Media Management; Master of Science in Investor Relations; Master of Science in Information Systems; Master of Science in Global Finance; Master of Science in Business Enterprise

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $80,676.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $65,058.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 24

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Spring 2012
      • Deadline: Nov 1, 2011
      • Semester: Summer 2012
      • Deadline: Apr 1, 2012
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Jun 1, 2012
      • Semester: Spring 2013
      • Deadline: Nov 1, 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: Considered
      • Recommendations: Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 467
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 55 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 46 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 0 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 0 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 24
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 8
      • Applicant interviews are: Recommended
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 49 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 65 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 48 %
      • Applications from women received: 38 %
      • Mean base salary forgone: $64,340.00
      • Median base salary forgone: $59,500.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 39 %
      • International: 49 %
      • Married: 7 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 39 %
      • Europe: 6 %
      • North America: 53 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 5 %
      • Asian American: 9 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 5 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 76 %
      • Chose not to report: 5 %
      • Other: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 82 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 10 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 4 %
      • Midwest: 4 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 59
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 51

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

      • From: 4
      • To: 120
      • Median age of entering class: 26
      • Mean age of entering class: 27

  • 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: 60 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 60 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $27,853.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $20,398.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • a combination of need and merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Unique scholarship application
      • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $4,900.00
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 100 %
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? Only to domestic students
      • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $60,082.00

  • 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) 610
      • 25th Percentile 560
      • 10th Percentile 500
      • 75th Percentile 650
      • Average GMAT Score 602
      • 90th Percentile 697

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 75th Percentile 660
      • 25th Percentile 570
      • 50th Percentile (median) 610
      • 10th Percentile 510
      • 90th Percentile 690
      • Average GMAT Score 609

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 30
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 22
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 173

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

      • Business and Geopolitics
      • Communication with High Level Executives
      • Risk Management in Energy Corporations
      • Health Information Technology
      • Managing Customer Centricity

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

        • Finance
        • Marketing
        • Accounting
      • Communications and Media Management; Information Systems; Management Systems; Public Accounting; Taxation and Accounting

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

        • MBA/MS (Science)
        • MBA/JD (Law)
      • 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
        • Accounting
        • Tax

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 197

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 50
      • Non-Tenured: 56

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 92

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 45

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 12
      • Non-Tenured: 31

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 15

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 50
      • Non-Tenured: 88

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

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

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Black MBA Association
        • Hispanic Student Organization
        • International Club
        • Women in MBA
        • Other

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 3 %
      • Experiential Learning: 5 %
      • Lectures: 62 %
      • Simulations: 0 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • 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: Installed a new 22-station computer lab at our facilities at 1790 Broadway 11th floor
      • Amount spent: $181,772.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 15,000
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 5
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 3
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 13 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $600.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $16,770,223.00
      • 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.fordham.edu/alumni_relations/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/alumni/
      • 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: 85 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 8 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 7 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 61 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 39 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 35 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 12 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 53 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 31 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 12 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 57 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Ernst & Young 7
      • Deloitte 6
      • KPMG 4
      • PwC 4
      • Bollam, Sheedy and Toram 2
      • Financial Accounting Standards Board 2
      • Goldman Sachs 2
      • Repucom 2
      • UBS 2
      • UniCredit Group 2
      • GE Capital 1
      • Unilever 1
      • Societe Generale 1
      • Thomson Reuters 1
      • IBM 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 16 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $75,446.00
      • Median base salary: $70,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $6,500.00
      • Median signing bonus: $5,000.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $13,171.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $10,000.00

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

      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 57 %
      • General Management: 0 %
      • Human Resources: 3 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 17 %
      • Management Information Systems: 5 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 5 %
      • Other: 8 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 5 %
      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Consumer Products: 12 %
      • Financial Services: 57 %
      • Manufacturing: 5 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 3 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 3 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • 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: 90 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 3 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 2 %
      • Midwest: 3 %
      • West: 2 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 70 %
      • Average internship length in weeks: 11

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