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

University of Warwick

Warwick Business School

  • Program Basics

      • Warwick MBA
      • Warwick Business School
      • Coventry, CV4 7AL
      • United Kingdom of Great Britain
      • Program Web site: http://www.warwickmba.com
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: warwickmba@wbs.ac.uk
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Association of MBAs (AMBA)
        • EQUIS
        • European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 3,222
      • Full-Time MBA: 67
      • Part-Time MBA: 1,487
      • Executive MBA: 758
      • PhD Program: 164
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Finance
      • MSc Management; MSc Marketing & Strategy; MSc Business Analytics & Consulting; MSc Information Systems Management & Innovation; MSc Management Science & Operational Research; MSc Accounting & Finance; MSc Finance & Economics; MSc Financial Mathematics; MSc Finance with Behavioural Science; MSc Public Leadership & Management; MA Industrial Relations & Managing Human Resources; MA International Employment Relations; MA Management & Organizational Analysis;

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $41,000.00
      • Nonresident: $41,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $20,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $20,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 12

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Jul 31, 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
      • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 620

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 257
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 56 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 38 %
      • 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
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 62 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 88 %
      • Applications from women received: 29 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 27 %
      • International: 91 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 2 %
      • Asia: 72 %
      • Europe: 22 %
      • North America: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 4 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 76
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 60

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

      • From: 36
      • To: 132
      • Median age of entering class: 28
      • Mean age of entering class: 30

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 38 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $15,000.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $10,500.00
      • 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: $15,000.00
      • 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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 75th Percentile 660
      • 25th Percentile 580
      • Average GMAT Score 618
      • 10th Percentile 540
      • 90th Percentile 690
      • 50th Percentile (median) 630

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 10th Percentile 600
      • 25th Percentile 610
      • 90th Percentile 700
      • 75th Percentile 680
      • 50th Percentile (median) 650
      • Average GMAT Score 646

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 55
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 45
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 36

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

      • Envisioning and Enabling Innovation
      • Investments and Risk Management
      • Strategic Global Outsourcing and Offshoring
      • Complexity, Management and Network Thinking
      • 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
        • Strategy

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 196

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 99
      • Non-Tenured: 52

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 35

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 36
      • Non-Tenured: 36

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 38
      • Non-Tenured: 44

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 89
      • Non-Tenured: 51

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Consulting
        • Finance

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA
        • Other

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 40 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 25 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students are required to be fluent in more than one language by graduation
        • Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties
        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 9,639
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 59
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 51
      • 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://www2.warwick.ac.uk/alumni/networks/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.wbs.ac.uk/alumni/networks/
      • 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: 85 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 1 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 14 %

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

      • Destination: Midlands Career Fair
      • Month: June
      • Amount Paid By School: Full

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 35 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 36 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 29 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 95 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 0 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 5 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Deloitte 3
      • HSBC Holdings plc 2
      • Johnson & Johnson 2
      • Royal Dutch Shell 2
      • WWF 1
      • Vodaphone 1
      • 3M 1
      • Proctor & Gamble 1
      • PWC 1
      • PepsiCo 1
      • Jaguar LandRover 1
      • Hewlett Packard 1
      • Barclays 1
      • Bank of China 1
      • Accenture 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 82 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $85,755.00
      • Median base salary: $82,805.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $17,712.00
      • Median signing bonus: $13,660.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $10,500.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $7,887.00

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

      • Consulting: 24 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 12 %
      • General Management: 12 %
      • Human Resources: 6 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 22 %
      • Management Information Systems: 4 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 16 %
      • Other: 2 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 15 %
      • Consumer Products: 8 %
      • Financial Services: 33 %
      • Manufacturing: 19 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 8 %
      • Non-Profit: 4 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 4 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 4 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 2 %
      • Other: 4 %

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

      • Africa: 8 %
      • Asia: 24 %
      • Europe: 61 %
      • North America: 4 %
      • Oceania: 2 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %

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

      • Mid-Atlantic: 100 %

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

      • Birmingham Children's Hospital 3
      • Cap Gemini 2
      • Circadian Solar 2
      • Ricardo UK 2
      • ACCENTURE 1
      • Airbus 1
      • Ernst & Young 1
      • Octagon Worldwide 1
      • PepsiCo 1
      • Core Partners Consulting 1
      • ETF Securities 1
      • FSA 1
      • IBM 1
      • Next plc 1
      • Smallpiece Trust 1
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 50 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $6,000.00
      • Median: $5,500.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 12

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