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

Rochester Institute of Technology

Saunders College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Full-time MBA Program
      • E. Philip Saunders
      • 105 Lomb Memorial Dr
      • NY
      • Rochester, 14623, New York
      • United States of America
      • Program Web site: http://www.saunders.rit.edu
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: gradbus@saunders.rit.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 105
      • Full-Time MBA: 70
      • Part-Time MBA: 17
      • Executive MBA: 18
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Finance
        • Other
      • Master of Management; MBA in Accounting; Master of Innovation Management

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $69,774.00
      • Nonresident: $69,774.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $47,256.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $47,256.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 21

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Winter 2011
      • Deadline: 11-1-2011
      • Semester: Spring 2012
      • Deadline: 2-1-2012
      • Semester: Summer 2012
      • Deadline: 5-1-2011
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: 8-1-2012
      • 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: 580

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 498
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 41 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 37 %
      • 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: 0
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Not required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 0 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 0 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 69 %
      • Applications from women received: 35 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 44 %
      • International: 54 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 2 %
      • Asia: 33 %
      • Europe: 3 %
      • North America: 49 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 11 %

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

      • African American: 6 %
      • Asian American: 6 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 85 %
      • Chose not to report: 3 %

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

      • Northeast: 91 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 3 %
      • Southwest: 3 %
      • Midwest: 3 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 34
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 24

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

      • From: 12
      • To: 48
      • 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 receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 55 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $10,664.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $7,974.00
      • 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: $10,664.00
      • 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? No

  • GMAT

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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 10th Percentile 460
      • 50th Percentile (median) 570
      • 90th Percentile 660
      • 25th Percentile 500
      • 75th Percentile 620
      • Average GMAT Score 567

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 90th Percentile 660
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • 25th Percentile 510
      • Average GMAT Score 565
      • 50th Percentile (median) 560
      • 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: 16
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 59

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

      • Negotations

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

        • Finance
        • Management Information Systems
        • Entrepreneurship
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Health Care Administration
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Accounting
        • Human Resource Management
        • Leadership
        • Operations Management
        • Organizational Behavior
        • Public Policy
        • International Business
        • Technology
        • Statistics and Operations Research
      • Digital Marketing, Product Commercialization,Quality and Applied Statistics,Quality and Organizational Improvement,Supply Chain Management,Tech Mgmt,
      • 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
        • Technology
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • Leadership

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 81

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 21
      • Non-Tenured: 60

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: O
      • Non-Tenured: 38

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 12

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 6

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 10

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 21
      • Non-Tenured: 19

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Volunteer

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 10 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 20 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 30 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Other
      • Cap Stone Project

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Student Lab, Sever, Other
      • Amount spent: $265,060.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 4,987
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 10 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,069.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • 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.rit.edu/alumni/onlinecommunity
      • 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? Yes

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 97 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 3 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 55 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Bausch & Lomb 1
      • Wegmans 1
      • PayChex 1
      • Xerox 1
      • Merill Lynch 1
      • Ernst & Young 1
      • Price Water Cooper 1
      • Dresser-Rand 1
      • Eastman Kodak 1
      • Bonadio Group 1
      • Epic Systems 2
      • Deloitte & Touche 1
      • Blackbard 1
      • Coopervision 1
      • Mengel, Metzger, Barr 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 6 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $53,353.00
      • Median base salary: $47,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $4,333.00
      • Median signing bonus: $5,000.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $0.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $0.00

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

      • Consulting: 6 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 35 %
      • General Management: 14 %
      • Human Resources: 4 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 16 %
      • Management Information Systems: 6 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 19 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 6 %
      • Consumer Products: 19 %
      • Financial Services: 27 %
      • Manufacturing: 16 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 6 %
      • Non-Profit: 2 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 2 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 10 %
      • Other: 12 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 0 %
      • Europe: 2 %
      • North America: 98 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 86 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 4 %
      • South: 4 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 4 %
      • West: 2 %
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 83 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $15.00
      • Median: $14.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 10

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