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

Pace University

Lubin School of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Pace University - Lubin School of Business
      • Lubin School of Business
      • One Pace Plaza
      • New York, 10038, New York
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://www.pace.edu/lubin/
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: gradnyc@pace.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,126
      • Full-Time MBA: 155
      • Part-Time MBA: 454
      • Executive MBA: 36
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Other
      • MS in Accounting; MS in Human Resource Management; MS Financial Management; MS Investment Management; MS Taxation; MFP Master in Finance for Professionals; Doctoral of Professional Studies (DPS) in Business

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $60,532.00
      • Nonresident: $60,532.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $40,486.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $46,584.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 24

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Spring 2012
      • Deadline: Dec 1, 2011
      • Semester: Summer 2012
      • Deadline: May 1, 2012
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Aug 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: Very Important
      • Resume/Work Experience: Important
      • Application Essays: Important
      • Interviews: Not Considered
      • Recommendations: Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 683
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 53 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 31 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 3 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 82 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Not required

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 69 %
      • Applications from women received: 48 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 44 %
      • International: 21 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Asia: 28 %
      • Europe: 10 %
      • North America: 55 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 7 %

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

      • Asian American: 8 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 6 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 46 %
      • Chose not to report: 36 %
      • Other: 4 %

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

      • Northeast: 96 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
      • West: 2 %
      • Median age of entering class: 23
      • Mean age of entering class: 26

  • 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: 46 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 61 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $23,176.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $22,896.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • a combination of need and 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: $7,935.00
      • 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: $46,668.00

  • GMAT

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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 90th Percentile 640
      • 50th Percentile (median) 540
      • 75th Percentile 590
      • 25th Percentile 470
      • Average GMAT Score 531
      • 10th Percentile 400

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 75th Percentile 580
      • 50th Percentile (median) 540
      • 90th Percentile 610
      • 25th Percentile 510
      • Average GMAT Score 539
      • 10th Percentile 460

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 23
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 23
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 105

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

        • Finance
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Accounting
        • Human Resource Management
        • Operations Management
        • International Business
        • Tax
      • Information Systems, International Economics, Strategic Management

    • 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
        • International Business
        • Accounting
        • Tax

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 156

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 97
      • Non-Tenured: 13

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 44

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 18
      • Non-Tenured: 15

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 23
      • Non-Tenured: 7

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 94
      • Non-Tenured: 27

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 10 %
      • Experiential Learning: 5 %
      • Lectures: 50 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %

    • 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: The Lubin School of Business has installed 2 new entrepreneurship labs, one in New York City and one in Pleasantville. The school has also revamped 4 technology classrooms with all learning technology equipment. In addition, 9 Bloomberg terminals were installed in New York City and 2 were installed in Westchester. Wireless technology has been implemented throughout the entire University. Blackboard 9.1 has recently been adopted .
      • Amount spent: $895,260.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 20,141
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 31
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 3
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 5 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $204.00
      • 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: $47,640,500.00
      • 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.pace.edu/alumni-and-friends/alumni-benefits-and-services
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
      • Does the B-SCHOOL offer career services for alumni? No
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 7 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 48 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 45 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 31 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 50 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 19 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 72 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 15 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 11 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 2 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • JPMorgan Chase 9
      • KPMG, LLP 7
      • PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP 7
      • Ernst & Young, LLP 7
      • Deloitte & Touche, LLP 4
      • UBS 3
      • New York Life 2
      • Bank of New York Mellon 2
      • Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 8 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $64,858.00
      • Median base salary: $56,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $4,739.00
      • Median signing bonus: $3,700.00

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

      • Consulting: 0 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 70 %
      • General Management: 4 %
      • Human Resources: 2 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 6 %
      • Management Information Systems: 6 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 7 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 3 %
      • Financial Services: 80 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 3 %
      • Technology: 9 %
      • Other: 3 %

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

      • Morgan Stanley 10
      • NY County DA Office 9
      • AXA Advisors, LLC 5
      • Ernst & Young, LLP 5
      • IBM 5
      • Goldman Sachs 4
      • Escada 4
      • KPMG, LLP 4
      • Merrill Lynch 3
      • Deloitte & Touche, LLP 3
      • Deutsche Bank 3
      • PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP 3
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 71 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: 17/hr
      • Median: 16/hr
      • Average internship length in weeks: 12

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • School Comments: International students need to apply by October 1 for the Spring, March 1 for the Summer and by June 1 for the Fall semesters.

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