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

University of Texas, San Antonio

College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • MBA in International Business
      • University of Texas at San Antonio
      • UTSA College of Business
      • One UTSA Circle
      • San Antonio, 78249, Texas
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://www.utsa.edu/gcat/chapter6/COB/cob.html#mbaib
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: mbainternational@utsa.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 674
      • Full-Time MBA: 9
      • Part-Time MBA: 240
      • Executive MBA: 62
      • PhD Program: 92
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Master of Finance
        • Other
        • Master of Technology
        • Master of International Management/Business
      • MA in Economics; MS in Applied Statistics; MS in Construction Science and Management, MS in Information Technology

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $17,508.00
      • Nonresident: $45,174.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $29,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $57,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 12

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Summer 2012
      • Deadline: May 1, 2011
      • 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: 500

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 15
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 67 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 90 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 0 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Recommended
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 67 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 20 %
      • Applications from women received: 40 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 22 %
      • International: 11 %
      • Married: 22 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 11 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 89 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 13 %
      • Asian American: 0 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 25 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 62 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 100 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 43
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 24

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

      • From: 13
      • To: 100
      • Median age of entering class: 27
      • Mean age of entering class: 30

  • 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: 100 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 100 %
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • academic merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? As part of the admissions application

  • GMAT

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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 75th Percentile 600
      • 10th Percentile 300
      • 90th Percentile 620
      • 50th Percentile (median) 490
      • 25th Percentile 350
      • Average GMAT Score 468

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 75th Percentile 620
      • 50th Percentile (median) 600
      • 90th Percentile 640
      • 10th Percentile 510
      • 25th Percentile 550
      • Average GMAT Score 587

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 9
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 9

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

        • International Business
      • 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:

        • International Business

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 188

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 73
      • Non-Tenured: 52

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 63

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 19
      • Non-Tenured: 43

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 37
      • Non-Tenured: 37

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 10

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 73
      • Non-Tenured: 65

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Other

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • International Club

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 15 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 8 %
      • Lectures: 60 %
      • Simulations: 0 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • Other: 7 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must write a complete business plan
        • Students are required to complete international experience
        • Students are required to be fluent in more than one language by 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: Financial Studies Center (18 Bloomberg terminals, computers, TV’s, stock tickers); ALIAS (Advanced Labs for Infrastructure Assur & Sec), Integrated KACE mgt tools & appliances to manage all computers in College of Bus; Developed cyber security grants & research incl target networks and intrusion detection environments; comp classrooms, fac/staff desktops upgraded; added servers to the Citrix environ (to increase research capabilities); added a DAE to SAN & virtualized existing infrastructure
      • Amount spent: $903,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 3,534
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $215.00
      • 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: $8,853,339.00
      • 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://alumni.utsa.edu
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Does the B-SCHOOL offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

  • CAREER SERVICES

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

      • Destination: NSHMBA (National Society of Hispanic MBAs) annual conference
      • Month: October
      • Amount Paid By School: Full

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • School Comments: The MBA in International Business is a full-time intense (1 year) program. The first class was admitted in Summer 2010 and graduated in Summer 2011.

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