PROGRAM BASICS

• • Weatherhead School of Management
  • Part-Time MBA
  • 10900 Euclid Avenue
  • OH
  • Cleveland, 44106-7235, Ohio
  • United States of America
  • Program Web site: http://weatherhead.case.edu/ptmba
  • E-mail: bizadmissions@case.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 87 %
  • Average months to complete program: 36
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 72
  • 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: $21,600.00
  • Non-Resident: $21,600.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $1,800.00
  • Non-resident $1,800.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 874
  • Full-Time MBA: 141
  • Part-Time MBA: 228
  • Executive MBA: 41
  • PhD Program: 50
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 226
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Other
  • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Operations Research and Supply Chain Management; Master of Positive Organization Development; Master of Engineering and Management; Master in Non-Profit Organizations

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 73
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 78 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 84 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 11
  • 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? No

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 25th Percentile 520
  • 75th Percentile 620
  • 50th Percentile (median) 560
  • 10th Percentile 424
  • Average GMAT Score 558
  • 90th Percentile 678

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 75th Percentile 640
  • 50th Percentile (median) 570
  • 25th Percentile 525
  • 90th Percentile 660
  • Average GMAT Score 574
  • 10th Percentile 484
• • 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: Important
  • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
  • Application Essays: Important
  • Interviews Important
  • Recommendations: Important
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Important

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 25 %
  • International students: 8 %

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

  • African American: 2 %
  • Asian American: 5 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 80 %
  • Chose not to report: 9 %
  • Other: 4 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 76
  • Median: 66
  • From: 12
  • To: 147
  • One year or less: 13 %

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • Mean: $73,565.00
  • Median: $61,000.00

• Middle 80% range:

  • From: $33,000.00
  • To: $105,000.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 6 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 25 %
  • General Management: 8 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 19 %
  • Management Information Systems: 13 %
  • Operations/Production: 15 %
  • Other: 14 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 0 %
  • Consumer Products: 15 %
  • Financial Services: 10 %
  • Government: 0 %
  • Manufacturing: 29 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 6 %
  • Non-Profit: 15 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 17 %
  • Real Estate: 0 %
  • Technology: 2 %
  • Other: 6 %

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

  • Cleveland Clinic 12
  • ALCOA 8
  • Key Bank 8
  • General Electric 7
  • Progressive Insurance 6
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 30
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 28

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: 27 %

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

  • Institutional Scholarships: 0 %
  • Assistantships: 0 %
  • Loans (private and government): 100 %
• • Mean financial aid package: $27,032.00
  • Median financial aid package: $25,221.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded? Academic merit
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 0
  • 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
  • Mean outstanding debt at graduation: $22,395.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 91

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 34
  • Non-Tenured: 35

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 22

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 4
  • Non-Tenured: 20

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 8
  • Non-Tenured: 11

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 4
  • Non-Tenured: 10

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 34
  • Non-Tenured: 37

STUDENT LIFE

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

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Other
    • Consulting

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

  • • International Club
    • Hispanic Student Organization
    • Women in MBA
    • Partners/Family
    • Wine
• • 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: 25 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 5 %
  • Lectures: 45 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 18
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 40
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 15
  • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 83 %
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 15 %
  • Average core class size: 30
  • Average elective class size: 28
  • Electives available: 31

• Recently added electives:

  • Green Finance (BAFI 427)
• • Last curriculum revision: 2009
  • Recent curriculum changes: The PT MBA is structured specifically for busy professionals. Offering the same challenging curriculum as the full-time program, our PT MBA is a cohort-based program is specially designed to accommodate working people. The cohort-based format of the PT MBA program allows participants to develop together as students and colleagues, outside of the demands of the program. It mirrors real-life experience and encourages a strong network and lasting friendships.
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Finance
    • Leadership
    • General Management
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Organizational Behavior

• 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: 48

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: HD video cameras to produce HD quality content; LED light kit to provide better lighting for productions; Portable Polycom videoconference unit to provide higher bandwidth videoconferences; DVD cameras and recorders for Case-style interviews; class audience response systems for immediate feedback; increased number of technology enhanced classrooms; increased analytical software packages for faculty and students; Qualtrics for robust surveys; Identity Finder.
  • Amount spent: $3,734,147.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 17,656
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 7 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $702.00
  • 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 $104,139,776.00
  • 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://alumnet.case.edu/s/944/index.aspx
  • 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://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/55162/16D39702C62B
  • 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

• • -Going to Case Western Reserve University was one of the greatest experiences of my educational career. The professors are outstanding and the resources are plentiful. I feel that it provided me the tools to handle anything that business has to throw at me, and I will always be thankful.
    
    -It was an "experience" not just an education. The way your education is structured is such that you really get an in-depth look into business as it relates to your education.
    
    -It was really pretty great. It balanced a very tough framework with an understanding of a need for flexibility in the part time program. Bottom tier of students could be a little weak, but overall, the general body provided an adequate challenge.
    
    -The adjunct professors, due to the location of the school and the access to the many businesses in the Cleveland area, were experts in their fields, and the full time faculty members had extensive real world experience, and were on the cutting edge of their field.
    
    -I think that overall the faculty and staff were very responsive and tried to accommodate the part-time students. I was impressed that full tenured professors would make a point of having evening office hours and even sometimes giving out their home phone numbers to be available to all of us. Professors often had us use examples from our current job during classes, which made us feel that our experience and work was valued and also benefited the full-time students who didn't have that vantage point. Overall, I was impressed with the program and learned a lot.
    
    -The school should bring in more business cases that involve real life entrepreneurs and business people, especially from local areas. Harvard Business cases are good, but what competitive advantage do students gain by studying something that almost every business student in the country studies?
    
    -CWRU is far too expensive for the education provided. I do not think it would be worth the cost of attendance for my career.
    
    -I honestly thought that they did a very good job. I recommend the program to others frequently.
    
    -I think Case provides good education, however, I think this program could be more valuable if you entered without a lot of work experience. I had 5 years of investment banking experience and felt like I already knew a lot of what was taught.
    
    -I had a hard time scheduling classes half way through the program. A lot of them overlapped, or specialty classes/specialization classes were offered during the day, which eliminated me as a part-time student.
    
    -The methods used in the program are suited perfectly to those who are currently employed, i.e., no unnecessary busy work, but all relevant to real-world/work scenarios. I could have taken what I learned that week and used it in the workplace immediately.
    
    -In my opinion, the place where improvement would be most useful for part-time students is in how group projects are facilitated. Full time students have all day to meet in person on campus, but meeting and even teleconferences are difficult for part-time students due to being scattered around the city. This turns a wonderful learning experience into a frustrating communication nightmare. This is a problem for all part-time programs, and solving or improving this somehow would be beneficial to learning.
    
    -It seemed like Case was more interested in quantity of students rather than quality. There were international student in my class fresh out of undergraduate. This student had no work experience, no exposure to US work environment and yet they were in the MBA program. They drastically reduced the quality of education in the class. MBA for me is not just reading books like an undergrad course and trying to A's the class. MBA is in class learning with real life examples and live discussion in class with your classmate. With no or very little work experience this fresh undergrad student had very little if any input.