Program Basics

• • Global MBA
  • George Washington University School of Business
  • 2201 G Street, NW
  • Duques Hall Suite 660
  • Washington, DC, 20052, District of Columbia
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.business.gwu.edu/gmba/
  • Status: Private
  • Program e-mail address: gwmba@gwu.edu
  • Graduate business school is accredited by:
    • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 3,528
  • Full-Time MBA: 246
  • Part-Time MBA: 714
  • Executive MBA: 48
  • PhD Program: 57
• • Other graduate degree programs:
    • Master of Accounting
    • Master of Finance
    • Other
    • Master of Technology
  • Master of Science in Project Management

PROGRAM COSTS

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

  • Resident: $74,456.00
  • Nonresident: $74,456.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $61,480.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $61,480.00

PROGRAM LENGTH

• • Full-time program (months): 21

ADMISSIONS

• Application Deadlines

  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Nov 15, 2011
  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Jan 15, 2012
  • Semester: Fall 2012
  • Deadline: Mar 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?

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

APPLICANTS

• • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 556
  • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 48 %
  • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 47 %
  • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 5 %
  • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 100 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 15
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 5
  • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
  • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 75 %
  • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

APPLICANT POOL

• • International applications received: 43 %
  • Applications from women received: 15 %
  • Mean base salary forgone: $53,669.00
  • Median base salary forgone: $50,000.00

CLASS PROFILE

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

  • Female: 28 %
  • International: 33 %
  • Married: 30 %

• Students from following regions:

  • Africa: 1 %
  • Asia: 20 %
  • Europe: 3 %
  • North America: 72 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 4 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

  • African American: 4 %
  • Asian American: 11 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 6 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 25 %
  • Chose not to report: 54 %
  • Other: 0 %

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

  • Northeast: 11 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 59 %
  • South: 5 %
  • Southwest: 7 %
  • Midwest: 5 %
  • West: 13 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %
• • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 51
  • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 48

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

  • From: 18
  • To: 36
• • 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 who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 73 %
  • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 66 %
  • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $38,377.00
  • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $40,500.00
  • 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: $17,066.00
  • 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? Only to domestic students

GMAT

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 10th Percentile 510
  • 75th Percentile 660
  • 25th Percentile 580
  • 90th Percentile 700
  • 50th Percentile (median) 620
  • Average GMAT Score 615

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 75th Percentile 660
  • 25th Percentile 600
  • Average GMAT Score 631
  • 50th Percentile (median) 640
  • 10th Percentile 550
  • 90th Percentile 680

CLASS OFFERINGS

• • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 43
  • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 24
  • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 125

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

  • Oil: Industry, Economy, Society
  • Clean Technology & Competing Energy Markets
  • Developing Authentic Leadership
  • Introduction to Federal Consulting
  • International Financial Reporting Standards

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

  • • Consulting
    • Finance
    • Hotel Administration
    • Management Information Systems
    • Entrepreneurship
    • General Management
    • Marketing
    • Health Care Administration
    • Real Estate
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Accounting
    • Human Resource Management
    • Operations Management
    • Strategy
    • Economics
    • Organizational Behavior
    • Public Policy
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • International Business
    • Public Administration
    • Statistics and Operations Research
    • Sports Business

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

  • • MBA/MS (Science)
    • MBA/MA (Arts)
    • Other
• • 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:

  • • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Finance
    • Entrepreneurship
    • International Business
    • Real Estate

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 260

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 108
  • Non-Tenured: 25

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 127

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 19
  • Non-Tenured: 66

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 20
  • Non-Tenured: 36

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 12
  • Non-Tenured: 29

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 78
  • Non-Tenured: 175

STUDENT LIFE

• Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Consulting
    • Business Ethics
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Nonprofit
    • Environmental
    • Investment Banking

• Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

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

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods used:

  • Case Study: 15 %
  • Distance Learning: 10 %
  • Experiential Learning: 25 %
  • Lectures: 25 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Requirements for graduation:

  • • Students are required to complete international experience
    • 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: Renewal and expansion of professional service contracts and the hiring of a new GWSB internal IT support team; replacement computers for faculty, staff, and student labs; new subscribtions to significant numbers of database resources; expansion of video conference facilities; augmenting distance education technology service offerings and upgrading our off-campus teaching and learning technology environment.
  • Amount spent: $3,400,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 16,860
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 4 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $984.00
  • 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: $28,308,540.00
  • 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://alumni.gwu.edu
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://business.gwu.edu
  • 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: 78 %
  • Graduates not seeking employment: 12 %
  • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 10 %

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

  • Destination: New York City Career Trek
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: San Francisco Career Trek
  • Month: February
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: National Black MBAA Career Fair
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: National Society of Hispanic MBAs Career Fair
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial
  • Destination: Net Impact Conference Career Expo
  • Month: October
  • Amount Paid By School: Partial

• Primary source of job offer:

  • School-facilitated activities: 50 %
  • Graduate-facilitated activities: 43 %
  • No information provided by graduate: 7 %

• Job Offers for 2011 graduates

  • Received first job offer by graduation: 61 %
  • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 24 %
  • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 1 %
  • Did not report having received a job offer: 14 %
  • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 51 %
  • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 34 %
  • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 1 %
  • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 14 %

• Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

  • Deloitte 5
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 4
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 3
  • New York Life 2
  • Ernst & Young 2
  • Booz Allen Hamilton 2
  • International Finance Corporation 2
  • McKinley Marketing 2
  • General Electric 1
  • Constellation Energy 1
  • IBM Global Business Services 1
  • ING 1
  • Johnson & Johnson 1
  • Verizon Wireless 1
  • World Bank 1
• • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 34 %

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

  • Mean base salary: $78,856.00
  • Median base salary: $80,000.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $10,717.00
  • Median signing bonus: $7,500.00
  • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $12,200.00
  • Median other guaranteed compensation: $5,000.00

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

  • Consulting: 34 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 21 %
  • General Management: 10 %
  • Human Resources: 4 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 13 %
  • Management Information Systems: 0 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 9 %
  • Other: 9 %

• Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Government: 19 %
  • Consulting: 19 %
  • Consumer Products: 0 %
  • Financial Services: 12 %
  • Manufacturing: 6 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 2 %
  • Non-Profit: 4 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 3 %
  • Real Estate: 6 %
  • Technology: 7 %
  • Other: 19 %

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

  • Africa: 0 %
  • Asia: 4 %
  • Europe: 4 %
  • North America: 90 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %

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

  • Northeast: 13 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 79 %
  • South: 2 %
  • Southwest: 0 %
  • Midwest: 3 %
  • West: 3 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

  • General Electric 4
  • AT&T 2
  • ExxonMobil 2
  • Johnson & Johnson 2
  • Technoserve 2
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2
  • Washington Post Media 2
  • Deloitte 1
  • Washington Gas 1
  • IBM Global Business Services 1
  • Ogilvy and Mather 1
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 1
  • Standard & Poors 1
  • Verizon 1
  • Walmart 1
• • Internships awarded that are paid: 69 %

• Weekly internship compensation:

  • Mean: $935.00
  • Median: $887.00
• • Average internship length in weeks: 12

• • -In the past two years I have seen the school transform in a good way. The contacts and friends that I have made enabled me to get my current job. From an international students point of view I would suggest that they look at schools where companies that hire international students come on campus for recruiting. GWU being in DC mostly has governmental jobs
    
    -I came into the school during the first year of the new curriculum. The quality of the curriculum and the professors involved has only improved since then. The real strength of the program is the quality of the student body. The administration has done a fantastic job of filling the class with quality individuals.
    
    -GW MBA was disappointing, in that it was disorganized, with a new 7-week format that professors were ill prepared to use. This remained the case through my entire MBA. Classes in the full-time MBA had many students from other countries, some of whom had scant English language (especially written) skills. The US students had to pick up the slack in the "teams". Most foreign students planned to return to their home countries, so what was the point? American classmates were extremely young and many had little job experience prior to MBA. Course grading allowed only 20 percent of students to receive an "A" or "A-". Some professors were vocal about disagreeing with the new grade requirements; some gave grades based on favoritism. Really poor timing of the stringent grading, considering the job market, and employers screening for students with 3.5 GPA and above. It effectively eliminated me, with around a 3.3 average from applying for a number of jobs.
    
    -The GW MBA program is on a steep upward trajectory, with tons of potential due to an innovative and international curriculum, fantastic location, and some very visionary administrators. The small class size provides for an intimate learning experience, and there are plenty of opportunities for students to create and lead initiatives. The career center provides solid professional advice, and is steadily building lasting relationships with a wide range of employers. All in all, the GW program feels like a start up - students are action oriented and constantly in "growth mode".
    
    -The GW program is improving, but it still accepts "well-connected" (yet unqualified) students and is burdened with subpar tenured professors who teach core curriculum courses. Additionally, employers outside of the government or government contracting sectors do not recruit at GW. Therefore, I would hesitate to recommend GW to friends or colleagues interested in working outside of these areas.
    
    -It's a great school that encourages teamwork and community building. The academic experience is really enriching, and the International Residency Program adds to the learning experience at GWSB. Adding to the fact that the university is centrally located in Washington DC, the institution has taken giant and significant strides to improve both the educational and cultural experiences for its students.
    
    -The school on the whole did not meet my expectations on a number of levels. The amount of rules and regulations at GWSB made me feel as if it was run by the Federal Government. Perhaps GWU School of Business has taken its place in DC too seriously and made education a business wrapped with red tape and a pretty red bow? I found most of the students at GWU to be very abrasive and solely concerned with themselves.
    
    -I was very impressed with GWU. The classes were small, the faculty interested in you as a person and most importantly the students were diverse and interesting. I would urge friends to enroll in this program because it is up-and-coming and attracts a group of well-rounded, accomplished and hardworking students.
    
    -GW MBA is a program with about a hundred students from about 20 countries. The size is great for everyone to know each other well, closely connect with faculties, and enjoy the whole study. The curriculum quality is high, and the combination of case study and book teaching is great. I don't think pure case study is efficient for many students. Very good location.
    
    -The classmate support throughout the program is amazing. Even with a curve, each student wants to help the others be the best they can be. Group study sessions with students from different teams, cohorts and MBA programs (full time, part time, etc.) occur. Also, many of my graduating class were able to get jobs and interviews because classmates worked with the career center to recruit for companies where they were interning...then they held pre-interview sessions to make sure the candidates were armed with information about the company and the interview itself.