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

Portland State University

School of Business Administration

  • Program Basics

      • Portland State MBA Program
      • School of Business Administration
      • 631 SW Harrison Street
      • SBA Suite 540
      • Portland, 97207-0751, Oregon
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://mba.pdx.edu
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: gradinfo@sba.pdx.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 577
      • Full-Time MBA: 88
      • Part-Time MBA: 130
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of International Management/Business

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $40,800.00
      • Nonresident: $47,496.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 24

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Nov 1, 2011
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Feb 1, 2012
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: May 1, 2012
      • Does the program have rolling admissions? No
      • 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: Important
      • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
      • Application Essays: Important
      • Interviews: Important
      • Recommendations: Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 151
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 57 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 51 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 4 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 67 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 51 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 90 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 35 %
      • Applications from women received: 46 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 40 %
      • International: 32 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 2 %
      • Asia: 8 %
      • Europe: 18 %
      • North America: 70 %
      • Oceania: 2 %

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

      • Asian American: 7 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 73 %
      • Chose not to report: 17 %
      • Other: 3 %

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

      • Northeast: 3 %
      • Southwest: 7 %
      • Midwest: 10 %
      • West: 80 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 45
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 36

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

      • From: 13
      • To: 66
      • Median age of entering class: 29
      • Mean age of entering class: 28

  • GMAT

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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 580
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • Average GMAT Score 567
      • 10th Percentile 448
      • 25th Percentile 528
      • 90th Percentile 681

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 580
      • 50th Percentile (median) 610
      • 75th Percentile 678
      • Average GMAT Score 626
      • 10th Percentile 561
      • 90th Percentile 709

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 48
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 20
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 70

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

      • Managerial Accounting for Sustainability
      • Leading Change for Sustainability
      • Finance for Business Strategy
      • World Changing Marketing
      • Entrepreneurial Mindset

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

        • Finance
        • Supply Chain Management
        • International Business
      • 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
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Other
        • Supply Chain Management
        • International Business

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 63

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 31
      • Non-Tenured: 32

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 100

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 13
      • Non-Tenured: 17

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 31
      • Non-Tenured: 15

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 46 %
      • Experiential Learning: 11 %
      • Lectures: 26 %
      • Simulations: 6 %
      • Team Projects: 11 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties
        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Other
      • cumulative GPA of 3.0 of higher

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 4,963
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 5 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $159.00
      • 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: $11,141,035.00
      • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? Yes
      • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? No
      • 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: 78 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 17 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 5 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 0 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 14 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 86 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 41 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 28 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 31 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 38 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 31 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 31 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Daimler Trucks 1
      • Nike 1
      • The Standard 1
      • Hitachi Consulting 1
      • Portland State University 1
      • OHSU 1
      • Target Corp. 1
      • MB Tech Consulting 1
      • KBC Global Services 1
      • United Parcel Service 1
      • Pacific Crest Securities 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 0 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $56,954.00
      • Median base salary: $57,500.00

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

      • Consulting: 14 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 14 %
      • General Management: 9 %
      • Human Resources: 5 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 9 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 32 %
      • Other: 17 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 5 %
      • Consulting: 14 %
      • Consumer Products: 23 %
      • Financial Services: 18 %
      • Manufacturing: 5 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 9 %
      • Technology: 5 %
      • Other: 21 %

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

      • Europe: 9 %
      • North America: 91 %

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

      • West: 100 %
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 71 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $13.00
      • Median: $12.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 10

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