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

Louisiana State University

Ourso College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Flores MBA Program
      • E. J. Ourso College of Business
      • 3176 Patrick F. Taylor
      • LA
      • Baton Rouge, 70803, Louisiana
      • United States
      • Program Web site: https://mba.lsu.edu
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: busmba@lsu.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 591
      • Full-Time MBA: 133
      • Part-Time MBA: 85
      • Executive MBA: 29
      • PhD Program: 85
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Master of Finance
        • Other
      • Master of Economics; Master of Public Administration; Master of ISDS;

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $26,400.00
      • Nonresident: $52,684.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $43,200.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $69,484.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 22

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: May 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: 550

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 155
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 71 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 80 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 3 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 1 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 18
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 7
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 82 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 25 %
      • Applications from women received: 43 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 50 %
      • International: 20 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 12 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 86 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 6 %
      • Asian American: 0 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 2 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 92 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
      • South: 98 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 14
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 0

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

      • From: 0
      • To: 36
      • Median age of entering class: 23
      • Mean age of entering class: 24

  • 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: 100 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 48 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $12,109.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $10,740.00
      • 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: $9,391.00
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 95 %
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? No
      • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $5,442.00

  • GMAT

      • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes
      • If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? Not Applicable

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 10th Percentile 410
      • 25th Percentile 500
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • Average GMAT Score 555
      • 50th Percentile (median) 565
      • 90th Percentile 683

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 620
      • Average GMAT Score 615
      • 10th Percentile 540
      • 25th Percentile 570
      • 90th Percentile 700
      • 75th Percentile 650

  • 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: 30

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

      • Business Analytics
      • Consulting Management Field Project
      • Venture Capital Funding for Start Ups
      • Marketing Analytics

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

        • Finance
        • Management Information Systems
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • Real Estate
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Accounting
        • Human Resource Management
        • Economics
        • E-commerce
      • Business Analytics, Marketing Analytics

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

        • 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
        • Marketing
        • Other
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Consulting

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 102

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 48
      • Non-Tenured: 21

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 14

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 10

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 8

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 49
      • Non-Tenured: 26

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • International Club
        • Women in MBA
        • Volunteer

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 30 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Other
      • Maintain Professional standards as established by the Flores MBA Program

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Laptop/desktop updates; Business Education Complex opens in March 2012; Classroom upgrades; Upgrade to Bloomberg Terminals in SMART Trading Room; General Technology upgrades (University wide); New College Website based on Sharepoint technology; as well as donations to fund exploratory use of technology for purposes of teaching innovations. Figure is based on estimate: $500,000. Significant spending expected to be accounted for in next survey as new Business Education Complex will go live.
      • Amount spent: $500,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 3,800
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 3
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 11 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,450.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $75.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $56,074,841.00
      • 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.lsualumni.org
      • 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? No

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 96 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 4 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 57 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 43 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 60 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 23 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 6 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 14 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 60 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 23 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 6 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 11 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • CAPITAL ONE 3
      • SHAW 3
      • INTERNATIONAL PAPER 2
      • BBVA COMPASS 2
      • ALBEMARLE 2
      • BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF LA 2
      • LOUISIANA LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR 2
      • EMPLOYEE BENEFIT SOLUTIONS 2
      • DOW 1
      • OCHSNER 1
      • AMEDISYS 1
      • CENTURY LINK 1
      • Deloitte 1
      • Morgan Stanley 1
      • KAISER PERMANENTE 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 23 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $55,413.00
      • Median base salary: $54,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $5,629.00
      • Median signing bonus: $5,150.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $0.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $0.00

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

      • Consulting: 10 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 25 %
      • General Management: 8 %
      • Human Resources: 5 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 16 %
      • Management Information Systems: 2 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 11 %
      • Other: 23 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 6 %
      • Consulting: 13 %
      • Consumer Products: 2 %
      • Financial Services: 21 %
      • Manufacturing: 18 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 3 %
      • Non-Profit: 6 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 5 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 3 %
      • Real Estate: 2 %
      • Technology: 5 %
      • Other: 16 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 3 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 97 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 7 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 3 %
      • South: 69 %
      • Southwest: 13 %
      • Midwest: 3 %
      • West: 5 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

      • Amedisys Home Health 4
      • Deloitte 3
      • Louisiana Business & Technology Center 3
      • JP Morgan Chase 2
      • Ernst & Young 2
      • ExxonMobil 2
      • Kaiser Permanente 2
      • Jackson & Jackson, PLLC 2
      • Nestle 1
      • Fox News Channel 1
      • Freddie Mac 1
      • Dana Corporation 1
      • Employee Benefit Solutions 1
      • Novant Health Group 1
      • Occidental Petroleum 1
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 99 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $760.00
      • Median: $720.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 12

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