PROGRAM BASICS

• • The University of Akron
  • Flexible MBA
  • CBA 412
  • OH
  • Akron, 443254805, Ohio
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.uakron.edu/cba/cba-home/academic-programs/grad/
  • E-mail: gradcba@uakron.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 82 %
  • Average months to complete program: 29
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 72
  • Does the school have a separate full-time MBA program? No
  • If so, can part-time students switch to the full-time program? No

• Tuition and Fees: (Based on six credits in the fall and six credits in the spring)

  • Resident: $5,725.00
  • Non-Resident: $8,966.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $414.00
  • Non-resident $683.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 450
  • Part-Time MBA: 277
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,576
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other
  • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Taxation

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 184
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 61 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 71 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 4
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 3
  • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 540
  • 75th Percentile 600
  • 90th Percentile 640
  • 25th Percentile 480
  • Average GMAT Score 538
  • 10th Percentile 420

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 25th Percentile 530
  • 10th Percentile 500
  • 75th Percentile 620
  • 90th Percentile 670
  • Average GMAT Score 585
  • 50th Percentile (median) 580
• • Is proficiency in English required? 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: 550

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 28 %
  • International students: 14 %

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

  • African American: 2 %
  • Asian American: 0 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 93 %
  • Chose not to report: 4 %
  • Other: 1 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 40
  • Median: 24
  • From: 3
  • To: 84
  • One year or less: 37 %

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • Mean: $52,987.00
  • Median: $45,000.00

• Middle 80% range:

  • From: $22,000.00
  • To: $67,800.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 10 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 0 %
  • General Management: 4 %
  • Human Resources: 4 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 25 %
  • Management Information Systems: 4 %
  • Operations/Production: 28 %
  • Other: 25 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 0 %
  • Consumer Products: 11 %
  • Financial Services: 11 %
  • Government: 4 %
  • Manufacturing: 33 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
  • Non-Profit: 0 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 4 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 4 %
  • Real Estate: 0 %
  • Technology: 33 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Organizations that send the most participants to the part-time MBA program:

  • The J.M. Smucker Company 10
  • FirstEnergy Corp. 5
  • The Goodyear Tire & rubber Co. 4
  • The Timken Company 3
  • Key Bank 2
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 28
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 25

FINANCIAL AID

• • Part-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
  • Students receiving some form of financial aid in 2011-12: 37 %

• Of part-time MBA students who applied for financial aid for the 2011-12 academic year, percentage receiving:

  • Institutional Scholarships: 4 %
  • Assistantships: 38 %
  • Loans (private and government): 56 %
• • Mean financial aid package: $7,836.00
  • Median financial aid package: $6,559.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded? A combination of need and merit
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 66
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Unique scholarship application
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No
  • Mean outstanding debt at graduation: $15,000.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 97

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 35
  • Non-Tenured: 31

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 31

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 7
  • Non-Tenured: 12

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 13
  • Non-Tenured: 7

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 10

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 35
  • Non-Tenured: 31
• • Faculty on company boards: 8

STUDENT LIFE

• Active MBA specialization clubs open to part-time students:

  • • Human Resources
    • Marketing
    • Other
    • Information Technology

• Active MBA networking clubs open to part-time students:

  • • Black MBA Association
    • Hispanic Student Organization
• • Do part-time MBA students have their own area/center on campus? No
  • Do part-time MBA students have break-out rooms? Yes

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching Methods:

  • Case Study: 15 %
  • Distance Learning: 5 %
  • Experiential Learning: 10 %
  • Lectures: 40 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 5 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 16
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 33
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 19
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 84 %
  • Average core class size: 25
  • Average elective class size: 13
  • Electives available: 76

• Recently added electives:

  • Bioinnovation and Design
  • Tax Crimes and Forensics
  • Negotiations for the Workplace
  • Environmentally Responsible Organizations
  • Database Marketing Analytics
  • Technological Entrepreneurship & Innovation
• • Last curriculum revision: 2011
  • Recent curriculum changes: The Gateway (foundation) course requirement was changed from 24 to 12 credits. Six credits of professional coursework were added. Managing People in Organizations was added to the Core. The free elective requirement was eliminated. Students are expected to enroll in at least one action based learning course within the concentration. An Interdisciplinary concentration was added.

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Finance
    • General Management
    • Marketing
    • Other
    • International Business

• Additional concentrations offered:

  • Interdisciplinary
  • Supply Chain Management
  • International Finance
  • Health Care Management
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Finance
    • Accounting
    • General Management
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Tax

• Graduation requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Other: Describe in next screen
• • Other graduation requirements: Students must participate in an action learning course with links to a real business problem or project using real-world data.
• • Credits required to graduate: 48

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Updated the Fisher Sales lab to digital technology, added a distance learning classroom, upgraded building network, upgraded the Taylor Institute Resource Center with AV technology enhancements, installed a digital signage network to keep students informed, enhanced classrooms with Smart Technology, updated classroom AV equipment, purchased 40 laptops for a portable computer lab, replaced 143 desktop computers for labs, and expanded teaching lab capacity.
  • Amount spent: $781,365.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 3,669
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 2
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 2
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 6 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $395.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $14,830,103.00
  • 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.uakron.edu/development/
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

CAREER SERVICES

• • Do part-time MBAs have access to career development office?
    • Yes
  • If yes, at what point in the degree process are part-time MBA students able to use the service?
    • After the first year
  • Are part-time MBAs permitted to interview for full-time jobs? Yes
  • Are part-time students included in resume drops? Yes

• • -The program is very comprehensive. It really exposes you to many aspects of business like Accounting, Management, Finance and others. When you graduate you have a good understanding of how things are done in the business world.
    
    -The facilities could be updated with more modern technology. The desks were old and falling apart. It was hard to sit in chairs that weren't straight and level. I am also a firm believer in "the mind absorbs what the butt can endure."
    
    -The program provides good integration with real business cases and helps students to deal with different sectors. Hence, gain valuable experience and insight that will payoff upon graduation.
    
    -While it is difficult to keep a crack-team of faculty, only a few stick out that need work on their delivery and incorporation of the material. A few are clearly more academic- and researched-based and bring fewer practical methods, the University provides other instructors on the other side of the continuum.
    
    -The professors I had were very knowledgeable. I like how many had real world experience, rather than having been academics their whole careers. This allowed them to give advice and tell stories about how the concepts that we were learning about could actually be applied and utilized in private industry.
    
    -More online courses available. It is difficult for a person that travels a lot to be in class on weeknights as well plan schedules to be in town to attend class.
    
    -The program was very challenging and extremely time consuming. The medium class sized allowed for excellent interaction with professors for which opinions were welcomed and openly discussed. Many professors mirrored lesson plans to that of their experience at more prestigious universities, which provided an excellent education at a low cost.
    
    -I wanted the ability to take a concentrated course in a specific area during the program. This year, U of A now offers these courses.
    
    -The school is flexible in offering courses. I was able to do a dual major and also concentrate on some specialized exceptional courses on innovations. The staffs are very cordial and professors encourage us to unleash student's potentiality.
    
    -It was a good flexible program that allowed me to work and attend to family obligations. It is also very affordable compared to other programs around the country.
    
    -It is the best school in the area. There are only a few MBA programs that "open doors" and none are in the area to be able to attend part time.
    
    -The professors that taught my particular focus were very experienced with real life experience as well qualified with a degree in their respective field.