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

Rollins College

College of Arts & Sciences

  • Program Basics

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 368
      • Full-Time MBA: 164
      • Part-Time MBA: 161
      • Executive MBA: 43

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $66,000.00
      • Nonresident: $66,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $56,243.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $56,243.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 16

  • ADMISSIONS

      • 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? No

    • Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

        • IELTS
        • TOEFL Internet Based Test
        • TOEFL Paper-based Test
      • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 100

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 263
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 41 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 56 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 4 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 70 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 48 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 16 %
      • Applications from women received: 34 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 31 %
      • International: 18 %
      • Married: 8 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 55 %
      • Europe: 18 %
      • North America: 9 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 18 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 2 %
      • Asian American: 4 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 4 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 84 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 6 %

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

      • Northeast: 4 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
      • South: 80 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 12 %
      • West: 2 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 9
      • 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: 22

  • 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: 72 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 70 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $30,300.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $28,000.00
      • 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: $35,752.00
      • 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
      • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $60,738.00

  • 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? Review of undergraduate and/or graduate transcripts.

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 570
      • 10th Percentile 410
      • 25th Percentile 500
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • 90th Percentile 690
      • Average GMAT Score 563

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 600
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • 10th Percentile 510
      • 25th Percentile 550
      • 90th Percentile 680
      • Average GMAT Score 602

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 30
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 23
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 27

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

      • ENT 607 Sustainability & Social Entrepreneurship

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

        • Finance
        • Entrepreneurship
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Operations 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
        • General Management
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • International Business

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 36

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 21
      • Non-Tenured: 5

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 10

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 1

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 21
      • Non-Tenured: 10

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Entrepreneurship
        • Consulting
        • Business Ethics
        • Finance
        • Marketing

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Black MBA Association
        • Women in MBA
        • Other
        • Volunteer

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 45 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 10 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 20 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students are required to complete international experience
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Classrooms equipped -laptop connections, document cameras, DVD/VCR combo units, and touchscreen presentation controllers. 2 rooms contain Mediasite hardware, enabling lecture capture- live web streaming. A mobile Mediasite unit for interactive, live streaming events. Online learning platform- Blackboard Learn 9.1, used in both blended learning program and traditional, face-to-face programs. Faculty-students have access to a social media server, for creating Wordpress blogs,Wikis.
      • Amount spent: $1,140,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 6,167
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 11
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 17 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $621.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $32.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $14,947,682.00
      • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? No
      • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • University alumni networking site: http://www.rollins.edu/alumni/
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.rollins.edu/crummer/alumni/index.html
      • 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: 84 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 13 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 3 %

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

      • Destination: NAWMBA Conference & Career Expo
      • Month: September 2010
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: NBMBAA
      • Month: September 2010
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: NSHMBA
      • Month: October 2010
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 31 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 55 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 14 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 35 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 46 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 11 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 8 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 35 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 42 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 11 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 12 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Seimens Energy, Inc. 5
      • Walt Disney Company 4
      • Deloitte 2
      • Rollins College 2
      • BlackRock 1
      • Central Intelligence Agency 1
      • Gartner, Inc. 1
      • Lockheed Martin 1
      • Merrill Lynch 1
      • Pershing LLC 1
      • PriceWaterCoopers 1
      • Tupperware Brands 1
      • U. S. Department of Housing aand Urban Development 1
      • Nextera Energy 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 15 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $50,920.00
      • Median base salary: $47,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $4,864.00
      • Median signing bonus: $5,000.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $13,625.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $13,625.00

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

      • Consulting: 10 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 35 %
      • General Management: 6 %
      • Human Resources: 3 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 25 %
      • Management Information Systems: 4 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 7 %
      • Other: 10 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 3 %
      • Consulting: 11 %
      • Consumer Products: 7 %
      • Financial Services: 17 %
      • Manufacturing: 1 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 10 %
      • Non-Profit: 3 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 8 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 3 %
      • Real Estate: 3 %
      • Technology: 7 %
      • Other: 27 %

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

      • Africa: 3 %
      • Asia: 0 %
      • Europe: 1 %
      • North America: 96 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 10 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 4 %
      • South: 74 %
      • Southwest: 4 %
      • Midwest: 2 %
      • West: 6 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

      • The Walt Disney Co. 5
      • Starwood Vacation Ownership 4
      • Merrill Lynch 3
      • PCE Holdings, LLC 3
      • Tupperware Brands Co. 2
      • Universal Orlando Resort 2
      • Florida Hospital 2
      • Dealagio.com 2
      • Rollins College 2
      • Robert W. Baird 2
      • Mercantile Capital Corporation 2
      • UBS Financial Svcs. 2
      • Tavistock Group 1
      • Morgan Stanley Smith Barney 1
      • CIA/NRO 1
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 70 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $397.00
      • Median: $400.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 16

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