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

Suffolk University

Sawyer Business School

  • Program Basics

      • Suffolk MBA
      • Sawyer Business School
      • 8 Ashburton Place
      • ma
      • Boston, 02108, Massachusetts
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://www.suffolk.edu/mba
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: mba@suffolk.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,046
      • Full-Time MBA: 140
      • Part-Time MBA: 370
      • Executive MBA: 31
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Master of Finance
      • Master of Financial Services and Banking; Master Health Administration; Master of Science Taxation; Master Public Administration

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $72,520.00
      • Nonresident: $72,520.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $58,126.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $58,126.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 16

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Spring 2012
      • Deadline: Nov 1, 2011
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Jun 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: Very Important
      • Application Essays: Very Important
      • Interviews: Not Considered
      • Recommendations: Very Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 304
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 51 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 34 %
      • 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

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 50 %
      • Applications from women received: 42 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 33 %
      • International: 46 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Asia: 33 %
      • Europe: 4 %
      • North America: 54 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 9 %

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

      • Asian American: 8 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 4 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 8 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 72 %
      • Chose not to report: 8 %

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

      • Northeast: 96 %
      • Midwest: 4 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 33
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 27

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

      • From: 8
      • To: 50
      • Median age of entering class: 26
      • Mean age of entering class: 25

  • 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: 35 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 51 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $35,831.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $34,600.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • a combination of need and merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? all candidates are considered for scholarship
      • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $2,000.00
      • 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? No
      • If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? Cummulative GPA, Course titles on transcript, job description on resume

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 25th Percentile 460
      • 50th Percentile (median) 510
      • 75th Percentile 600
      • 90th Percentile 650
      • 10th Percentile 380
      • Average GMAT Score 514

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 90th Percentile 620
      • 10th Percentile 420
      • 75th Percentile 560
      • 25th Percentile 460
      • 50th Percentile (median) 490
      • Average GMAT Score 508

  • 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: 30
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 141

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

      • MGSM 803 - Technology Strategy
      • MGSM 837- Business of Biotechnology

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

        • Finance
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • Health Care Administration
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Accounting
        • Organizational Behavior
        • International Business
        • Tax

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

        • MBA/JD (Law)
        • Other
      • 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
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • International Business
        • Accounting

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 183

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 47
      • Non-Tenured: 63

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 73

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 47

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 11
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 8
      • Non-Tenured: 12

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 47
      • Non-Tenured: 48

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Other

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA
        • Other

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • 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

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Expansion and complete in-house redesign of the faculty/student Sawyer Computing Center; New help desk tracking system for Business School; Green IT efforts (server and desktop virtualization), including mandatory double sided printing at SBS; Panopto CourseCast – the university’s first anytime, anywhere audio video lecture capture system; Roll out of Wiki platform and the university’s first comprehensive technology knowledge base for users (https://wikis.suffolk.edu/display/OTM/Home)

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 6 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $249.00
      • 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.suffolk.edu/alumni
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.suffolk.edu/business/1193.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 not seeking employment: 42 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 68 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 23 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 77 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 33 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 24 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 24 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 19 %
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 35 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $59,900.00
      • Median base salary: $57,300.00

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

      • Finance/Accounting: 32 %
      • General Management: 5 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 32 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 11 %
      • Other: 21 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Consulting: 8 %
      • Non-Profit: 8 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 8 %

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

      • Northeast: 90 %
      • Southwest: 10 %

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

      • Deloitte 2
      • State Stree Corportation 2
      • Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 2
      • High Street Partners 1
      • Timberland Company 1
      • Community Builders Inc 1
      • Emerson College 1
      • Boston Internationla Real Estate 1
      • Virtua Research 1
      • Affinova 1
      • Investor Group Sves 1
      • MA Office of the Comptroller 1
      • Skycore LLC 1
      • MA Office of International Trade 1
      • MA Superior Court 1
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 100 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $400.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 14

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