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

Texas Tech University

Rawls College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration
      • Texas Tech University
      • Rawls College of Business Graduate Services Center
      • Lubbock, 79409-2101, Texas
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://mba.ba.ttu.edu
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: mba@ttu.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 929
      • Full-Time MBA: 52
      • Part-Time MBA: 540
      • PhD Program: 53
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Other
      • Master of Science in Accounting; Master of Science in Business Administration; Master of Science in Management Information Systems, International Master of Business Administration

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $22,000.00
      • Nonresident: $22,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $24,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $24,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 16

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Spring 2012
      • Deadline: Oct 15, 2011
      • Semester: Summer 2012
      • Deadline: Mar 15, 2012
      • 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: Important
      • Resume/Work Experience: Important
      • Application Essays: Important
      • Interviews: Considered
      • Recommendations: Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 186
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 18 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 74 %
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 33 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 48 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 20 %
      • Applications from women received: 35 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 44 %
      • International: 24 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 24 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 76 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 5 %
      • Asian American: 16 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 5 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 74 %
      • 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: 5 %
      • Southwest: 95 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 45
      • 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: 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: 100 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 100 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $5,700.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $2,000.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • academic 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
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 90 %
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? Only to domestic students
      • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $5,547.00

  • GMAT

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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 90th Percentile 610
      • 75th Percentile 580
      • 50th Percentile (median) 520
      • 25th Percentile 450
      • Average GMAT Score 511
      • 10th Percentile 370

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 90th Percentile 660
      • 10th Percentile 570
      • 50th Percentile (median) 610
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • 25th Percentile 590
      • Average GMAT Score 621

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 25
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 13
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 44

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

        • Management Information Systems
        • Entrepreneurship
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Health Care Administration
        • Real Estate
        • Leadership
        • Operations Management
        • International Business
        • Statistics and Operations Research
      • Risk Management
      • 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:

        • General Management
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • Health Care Administration
        • Leadership

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 102

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 46
      • Non-Tenured: 46

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 10

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 3
      • Non-Tenured: 17

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 5
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 46
      • Non-Tenured: 40

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 22 %
      • Distance Learning: 4 %
      • Experiential Learning: 4 %
      • Lectures: 56 %
      • Simulations: 3 %
      • Team Projects: 11 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Other
      • Internship

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Added Citrix’s XenApp application so that students to work anywhere in the world that there is an internet connection. Added GoPrint printing capabilities. Have classroom capture capability using Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite. Installed LCD screens for information dissemination through Digital Signage. Expanded hardware with additional blade servers, disk storage area devices, and increased bandwidth on our network. Converted phone systems to VOIP and classrooms to digital video and audio.
      • Amount spent: $289,169.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $59,743,881.00
      • 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://www.techsan.org
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://rawlscollege.ba.ttu.edu
      • 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: 63 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 33 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 4 %

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

      • Destination: Washington, D.C.
      • Month: March 2011
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 25 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 75 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 53 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 0 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 6 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 41 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 35 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 6 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 6 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 53 %
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 0 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $45,166.00
      • Median base salary: $38,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $0.00
      • Median signing bonus: $0.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $8,167.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $11,000.00

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

      • Consulting: 0 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 13 %
      • General Management: 0 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 25 %
      • Management Information Systems: 12 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 25 %
      • Other: 25 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 13 %
      • Consulting: 25 %
      • Consumer Products: 0 %
      • Financial Services: 25 %
      • Manufacturing: 0 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 0 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 12 %
      • Other: 25 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 0 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 100 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 100 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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