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

HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 100 %
      • Average months to complete program: 26
      • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 30
      • Does the school have a separate full-time MBA program? Yes
      • If so, can part-time students switch to the full-time program? Yes

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

      • Resident: $20,370.00
      • Non-Resident: $20,370.00

    • Tuition per credit:

      • Resident $450.00
      • Non-resident $450.00
      • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Other

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 391
      • Full-Time MBA: 61
      • Part-Time MBA: 81
      • PhD Program: 103
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 0
      • Graduate degree programs: Other
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master Program in Management (M.Sc.)

  • ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

      • Total applications, most recent entering class: 83
      • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 45 %
      • Admitted students enrolled: 92 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 2
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 1
      • Applicant interviews are: Recommended

  • ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT required? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No
      • If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked? HHL Admission Test as an alternative to the GMAT

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

      • 25th Percentile 580
      • 50th Percentile (median) 620
      • 75th Percentile 650
      • 90th Percentile 700
      • Average GMAT Score 611
      • 10th Percentile 532

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

      • Average GMAT Score 600
      • 50th Percentile (median) 620
      • 25th Percentile 580
      • 90th Percentile 660
      • 75th Percentile 625
      • 10th Percentile 532
      • 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: 500

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Female students: 29 %
      • International students: 29 %

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

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

    • Postgraduate work experience (months):

      • Mean: 102
      • Median: 86
      • From: 38
      • To: 216
      • One year or less: 0 %

    • Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

      • Mean: $79,775.00
      • Median: $81,787.00

    • Middle 80% range:

      • From: $54,525.00
      • To: $104,960.00

    • Entering students work in the following functional areas:

      • Consulting: 11 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 3 %
      • General Management: 49 %
      • Human Resources: 3 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 3 %
      • Management Information Systems: 3 %
      • Operations/Production: 11 %
      • Other: 17 %

    • Entering students work in the following industries:

      • Consulting: 11 %
      • Consumer Products: 6 %
      • Financial Services: 11 %
      • Government: 0 %
      • Manufacturing: 23 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 11 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 11 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 6 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 11 %
      • Other: 10 %

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

      • Daimler 5
      • Blue Corporate Finance 6
      • Q-Cells 5
      • Landesbank Sachsen 4
      • VW 3
      • Mean age, newest entering class: 31
      • Median age, newest entering clas: 31

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Part-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school
      • Students receiving some form of financial aid in 2011-12: 42 %

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

      • Institutional Scholarships: 6 %
      • Assistantships: 0 %
      • Loans (private and government): 37 %
      • Mean financial aid package: $6,858.00
      • Median financial aid package: $6,858.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded? A combination of need and merit
      • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 1
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Unique scholarship application
      • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 43

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 27

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 11

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 12
      • Non-Tenured: 26
      • Faculty on company boards: 50

  • STUDENT LIFE

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

        • Entrepreneurship

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

        • Women in MBA
      • 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: 30 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 20 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 10
      • Teachers in the part-time program: 26
      • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 23
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 70 %
      • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 100 %
      • Average core class size: 35
      • Average elective class size: 32
      • Electives available: 9
      • Last curriculum revision: 2010
      • Recent curriculum changes: Introducing new courses such as Business Law, Social Networking. Introducing a new stakeholder approach to the curriculum. Courses within the modules are offered in an interdisciplinary way.

    • Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

        • General Management
        • Leadership
      • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

    • Leading areas of study:

        • Entrepreneurship
        • Leadership
        • General Management
      • Other graduation requirements: Finishing all courses and writing the master thesis
      • Credits required to graduate: 90

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Consolidation of servers / Integrated campus management system (campus software) / Improvement of the technical conditions in the classrooms (W-LAN, projection technics, plugsockets)
      • Amount spent: $422,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 473
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 11
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 6
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • 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.hhl-alumni.de
      • 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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