PROGRAM BASICS

• • Henry B. Tippie School of Management
  • MBA for Professionals and Managers (MBA-PM)
  • Henry B. Tippie School of Management
  • 108 Pappajohn Business Building
  • Iowa City, 52242, Iowa
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://tippie.uiowa.edu/mbapm
  • E-mail: mbapm@uiowa.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 89 %
  • Average months to complete program: 40
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 120
  • 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: $7,200.00
  • Non-Resident: $7,200.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $600.00
  • Non-resident $600.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 1,174
  • Full-Time MBA: 138
  • Part-Time MBA: 762
  • Executive MBA: 55
  • PhD Program: 95
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,220
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting
  • Other graduate degree programs: N/A

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 264
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 93 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 97 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT required? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes
  • If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked? Exceptions to the GMAT requirement are made for applicants with a Master's, PhD, MD or JD degree.

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 25th Percentile 500
  • 10th Percentile 460
  • 50th Percentile (median) 570
  • Average GMAT Score 561
  • 75th Percentile 618
  • 90th Percentile 650

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 25th Percentile 510
  • Average GMAT Score 570
  • 50th Percentile (median) 570
  • 75th Percentile 620
  • 10th Percentile 480
  • 90th Percentile 655
• • 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

• Other additional English language proficiency tests accepted

  • None
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL: 600

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  • GMAT Score: Important
  • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
  • Application Essays: Important
  • Interviews Not Considered
  • Recommendations: Important
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 33 %
  • International students: 5 %

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

  • African American: 2 %
  • Asian American: 4 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 1 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 1 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 85 %
  • Chose not to report: 7 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 78
  • Median: 62
  • From: 26
  • To: 151
  • One year or less: 0 %

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 2 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 23 %
  • General Management: 10 %
  • Human Resources: 3 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 12 %
  • Management Information Systems: 12 %
  • Operations/Production: 32 %
  • Other: 6 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Consumer Products: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 25 %
  • Government: 8 %
  • Manufacturing: 45 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
  • Non-Profit: 2 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 5 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 0 %
  • Real Estate: 0 %
  • Technology: 4 %
  • Other: 5 %

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

  • Deere & Co. 120
  • Rockwell-Collins 120
  • AEGON 39
  • Wells Fargo 39
  • Principal Financial Group 37
• • 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: 12 %
• • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 0
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 194

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 58
  • Non-Tenured: 49

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 1
  • Non-Tenured: 86

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 12
  • Non-Tenured: 44

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 7
  • Non-Tenured: 5

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 6
  • Non-Tenured: 19

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 59
  • Non-Tenured: 68
• • Faculty on company boards: 21

STUDENT LIFE

• • 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: 25 %
  • Distance Learning: 1 %
  • Experiential Learning: 15 %
  • Lectures: 35 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 15 %
  • Other: 4 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 18
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 54
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 24
  • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 39 %
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 37 %
  • Average core class size: 39
  • Average elective class size: 25
  • Electives available: 33

• Recently added electives:

  • None
• • Last curriculum revision: 2008
  • Recent curriculum changes: None
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • International Business
    • General Management
    • Marketing

• 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 have completed core courses.
• • Credits required to graduate: 45

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: 2008:new conference room technology, re-designed college website, card access security system, lecture capture in some classrooms; 2009:online advising scheduling application, digital signage, new web 2.0 technologies for student use; 2010:online promotion & tenure application, incorporated a flash server, lecture capture systems in 100% of classrooms, upgraded all systems to Windows 7 and Office 2007 or 2010, additional digital signage kiosks, new email stations.
  • Amount spent: $3,500,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 7,955
  • 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: $214.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $596.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $61,371,458.00
  • 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.iowaalum.com/oniowa
  • 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://tippie.uiowa.edu/alumni/networking.cfm
  • 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?
    • After completing a certain number of credits
  • Are part-time MBAs permitted to interview for full-time jobs? Yes
  • Are part-time students included in resume drops? Yes

• • -It's a great program, which offers flexibility and affordability that provides fantastic learning and networking opportunities.
    
    -The classes went beyond a simple lecture format. There was quality discussion time, team exercises and work, as well as challenging assignments that brought real world work in to the setting.
    
    -Online courses for classes that are offered infrequently.
    
    -Great program overall: Satellite location is close to home. Instructors are always available for questions. Advising program and alumni program are very good. Instructors are very knowledgeable. The curriculum and staff are very flexible: provides weeklong and semester long classes. Curriculum also allows for global opportunities and intersession courses. Instructors are open to feedback from students. Good selection of interesting elective courses.
    
    -I was disappointed in the quality of some of the professors in the program. About half of them did not meet my expectations for quality of teaching ability. I was also disappointed with the abilities of some of the students that were admitted to the program.
    
    -I feel the knowledge and perspective once the program is complete will allow most individuals to have a new outlook on today's business environment. One suggestion is to work with your current employer to apply course concepts immediately to daily work tasks for additional experience. Otherwise most of your vision is easily lost and you are left without a voice at the table.
    
    -I think the global business strategy class curriculum should be revisited. Advisors should discuss options for MBA concentrations at the beginning of the program. I wasn't ever sure if I wanted to do a concentration or not and wasn't really presented the pros and cons of why I wouldn't/would participate in one.
    
    -The University of Iowa certainly offers the highest caliber MBA education in our area and it is much more affordable than any of the other (private) options. Highest quality, least cost---I have no idea why anyone would choose another program in this area.
    
    -While overall the program content was amazing and I learned a lot that is applicable to day-to-day business, there was a lot of overlap between the undergraduate business program and the graduate business program that I was unable to be waived from and replace with electives.
    
    -I absolutely would recommend the program to anyone. It was challenging and competitive, so I learned a great deal that I immediately applied in my job. However, the program is flexible for those with children and families who can't take full-time courses.
    
    -I think they've gone to far with soft skills. I would like to see more technical skills and training in finance and economics and less teamwork training.
    Have recommended the program to a number of individuals that are looking to move into management. This has particularly been the case for those who have technical backgrounds such as mine.
    
    -There was very little support for finding another job - only one employee responsible for career development for both the full and part-time MBA programs! I did not feel that the career development sessions were very helpful, perhaps due to the heavy workload of the person in this position.
    
    -The quality of the program was excellent. Courses and material can be applied ASAP to current job assignments. In addition, I also recommend the international course(s) offered.