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

Bentley University

McCallum Graduate School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 80 %
      • Average months to complete program: 36
      • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 84
      • Does the school have a separate full-time MBA program? Yes
      • 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: $14,217.00
      • Non-Resident: $14,217.00

    • Tuition per credit:

      • Resident $1,176.00
      • Non-resident $1,176.00
      • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), EQUIS

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,334
      • Full-Time MBA: 84
      • Part-Time MBA: 354
      • PhD Program: 41
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 4,154
      • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Electronic Commerce/Information Systems, Master of Finance, Other, Master of Marketing
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Financial Planning; Master of Human Factors in Information Design; Master of Taxation

  • ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

      • Total applications, most recent entering class: 195
      • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 85 %
      • Admitted students enrolled: 67 %
      • Applicant interviews are: Recommended

  • ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

      • 25th Percentile 500
      • 75th Percentile 610
      • 90th Percentile 660
      • 50th Percentile (median) 560
      • 10th Percentile 400
      • Average GMAT Score 547

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

      • 25th Percentile 530
      • 10th Percentile 500
      • 50th Percentile (median) 570
      • 75th Percentile 620
      • Average GMAT Score 575
      • 90th Percentile 672
      • 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: 600

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Female students: 47 %
      • International students: 6 %

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

      • African American: 0 %
      • Asian American: 6 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 1 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 3 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 86 %
      • Chose not to report: 4 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Postgraduate work experience (months):

      • Mean: 26
      • Median: 0
      • From: 0
      • To: 81
      • One year or less: 59 %

    • Entering students work in the following functional areas:

      • Consulting: 15 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 46 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 15 %
      • Management Information Systems: 8 %
      • Operations/Production: 8 %
      • Other: 8 %

    • Entering students work in the following industries:

      • Consulting: 15 %
      • Financial Services: 31 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 15 %
      • Technology: 23 %
      • Other: 15 %

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

      • Fidelity 41
      • State Street 36
      • Liberty Mutual 29
      • PricewaterhouseCoopers 25
      • Ernst & Young 23
      • Mean age, newest entering class: 25
      • Median age, newest entering clas: 23

  • 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: 54 %

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

      • Institutional Scholarships: 18 %
      • Assistantships: 0 %
      • Loans (private and government): 45 %
      • Mean financial aid package: $9,011.00
      • Median financial aid package: $17,056.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded? Academic merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Part of the admissions application
      • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 471

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 164
      • Non-Tenured: 116

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 161

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 63
      • Non-Tenured: 123

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 20
      • Non-Tenured: 34

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 26
      • Non-Tenured: 26

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 163
      • Non-Tenured: 136

  • STUDENT LIFE

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

        • Finance
        • Marketing
        • Other
        • Consulting
        • Information Technology

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

        • International Club
        • Hispanic Student Organization
        • Women in MBA
        • Other
        • Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
      • Do part-time MBA students have their own area/center on campus? Yes
      • Do part-time MBA students have break-out rooms? Yes

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching Methods:

      • Case Study: 35 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 15 %
      • Lectures: 15 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 30 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 25
      • Teachers in the part-time program: 99
      • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 44
      • Average core class size: 25
      • Average elective class size: 28
      • Electives available: 132

    • Recently added electives:

      • Service-Focused Management
      • Managing Quality in Services
      • Last curriculum revision: 2007
      • Recent curriculum changes: Foundation courses have been redesigned into two six-credit modules. Students with a business degree from an AACSB or EQUIS accredited institution are not required to take the foundation modules. With eight electives, students are now able to take two concentrations.

    • Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

        • Accounting
        • Finance
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Other
        • Economics
        • Statistics and Operations Research

    • Additional concentrations offered:

      • Information Systems and Technology
      • Law and Taxation
      • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? Yes

    • Leading areas of study:

        • Finance
        • Accounting
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Management Information Systems

    • Graduation requirements:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
      • Credits required to graduate: 36

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Installed SmartBoards in all hybrid-online classrooms, installed 13 hybrid online classrooms that use video-over-IP, launched Wimba Pronto for all classes to run synchronously or asynchronously online, wireless available across entire campus, all computers upgraded with new replacements, launched an online knowledgebase to provide tech help 24/7, email and network drive storage increased to 500 MB for each student, all 80 classrooms upgraded to "smart" classrooms, installed HD video conferencing
      • Amount spent: $14,850,701.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 6,717
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 5 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $296.00
      • 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 $207,842,000.00
      • 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.bentley.edu
      • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://alumni.bentley.edu
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

  • 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?
        • At any time
      • Are part-time MBAs permitted to interview for full-time jobs? Yes
      • Are part-time students included in resume drops? Yes

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