PROGRAM BASICS

• • Marquette University
  • Part-Time MBA Program
  • Straz Hall, Suite 275
  • PO Box 1881
  • Milwaukee, 53201-1881, Wisconsin
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://business.marquette.edu/academics/gsm
  • E-mail: mba@marquette.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 75 %
  • Average months to complete program: 34
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 72
  • Does the school have a separate full-time MBA program? No

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

  • Resident: $11,400.00
  • Non-Resident: $1,140.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $950.00
  • Non-resident $950.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 650
  • Part-Time MBA: 373
  • Executive MBA: 50
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,668
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other, Master of Human Resources
  • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Science in Applied Economics

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 163
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 77 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 75 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Not offered

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 25th Percentile 500
  • 10th Percentile 460
  • 50th Percentile (median) 570
  • 75th Percentile 620
  • 90th Percentile 680
  • Average GMAT Score 567

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 75th Percentile 600
  • Average GMAT Score 570
  • 50th Percentile (median) 570
  • 10th Percentile 480
  • 25th Percentile 520
  • 90th Percentile 660
• • 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?

  • • Other
    • IELTS
    • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test

• Other additional English language proficiency tests accepted

  • Pearson Test of English
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL: 570

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 33 %
  • International students: 4 %

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

  • African American: 3 %
  • Asian American: 0 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 1 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 86 %
  • Chose not to report: 10 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 82
  • Median: 78
  • From: 32
  • To: 132
  • One year or less: 26 %

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

  • GE Healthcare 54
  • Marquette University 30
  • harley Davidson 25
  • M&I Bank 16
  • Northwestern Mutual 16
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 30
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 29

FINANCIAL AID

• • Part-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
• • On what basis are scholarships awarded? Academic merit

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 107

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 42
  • Non-Tenured: 27

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 38

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 9
  • Non-Tenured: 21

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 2
  • Non-Tenured: 1

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 4

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 42
  • Non-Tenured: 16
• • Faculty on company boards: 20

STUDENT LIFE

• • 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: 19 %
  • Distance Learning: 4 %
  • Experiential Learning: 5 %
  • Lectures: 43 %
  • Simulations: 4 %
  • Team Projects: 18 %
  • Other: 4 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 12
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 73
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 31
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 61 %
  • Average core class size: 22
  • Average elective class size: 15
  • Electives available: 65

• Recently added electives:

  • Consulting:roles, responsibilities and skills
  • Doing Business in China
• • Last curriculum revision: 2002

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Finance
    • Human Resource Management
    • Marketing
    • Operations Management
    • International Business
    • Economics
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • International Business
    • Marketing
    • Supply Chain Management

• 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: 50

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Updated computers and technology in the classrooms and faculty offices as well as a mobile computer lab with laptops.
  • Amount spent: $80,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 5,001
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 12 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,423.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $150.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $324,885,000.00
  • 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://www.mu.edu/alumni/networking-index.php
  • 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?
    • At any time
  • Are part-time MBAs permitted to interview for full-time jobs? Yes
  • Are part-time students included in resume drops? Yes

• • -My Marquette part-time MBA experience offers a great cohort program that keeps me on track of a 28-month program. However, there are flexible options to take some core or elective courses on campus, rather than with the cohort program in Waukesha, WI. With this flexibility, I was able to take an international business elective in which I traveled to the Czech republic to work on a project with students at the University of West Bohemia. This was the best experience of any of my formal education.
    
    -Marquette MBA program gives a unique perspective of managing different business processes in an organization. It prepares students, aspiring managers and senior managers to think broadly and from different business functions before making decision.
    
    -The “advising” process of current MBA candidates needs to be reviewed. Too often, I’ve heard stories about receiving a lack of sound advice and actually choosing to do the opposite of what is recommended to the candidate.
    
    -I find the courses to be varied, practical, engaging, and valuable. The value of the courses goes beyond what I need for my career - they enable me to better understand world events, my own personal behavior, and group dynamics. As a student with an unrelated undergraduate major, I did not expect to find the degree terribly interesting. But, I was surprised to find that each class reframed my thought processes.
    
    -I would have like to have been informed of the facilities available to part-time MBA students: gym, union, student discounts. More flexibility in choosing electives, as sometimes the choices were very limited to only the business school.
    
    -I learned a lot, not only from professors, but also from the other students in class. Classes were very open to discussion while also structured on specific topics
    
    -Add additional investment courses. It was difficult to try and specialize in this area.
    
    -I was surprised in the level of education that you were being taught. I thought it would be more in-depth and complicated. However, upon talking with MBA students from other programs, I found that this was pretty much the same case all around. The true experience is in the networking and relationship building with your fellow classmates.
    
    -It was a great program. A minor improvement could have been around more networking in the cohort program, but we were a relatively small group.
    
    -Marquette has the best MBA program in the area...I would encourage all friends and colleagues to enroll in their program, if they are considering going back.
    
    -I feel like the program works perfect for the working man. Yes it is a little expensive, but you are getting your money's worth out of it. Like any other program you are going to have the professors that bother you but at Marquette I always felt like I gained something valuable out of each class. In addition, I have been able to apply what I have learned.
    
    -Marquette's MBA program exceeded my expectations in that it has provided me with a well-rounded business education. I learned from top-notch professors and students alike. MU has a well-balanced, integrated approach to ethics.
    
    -I really enjoyed the classes that helped shape my thought process instead of simply presenting the material. Although it's difficult to do that in some courses (math, for example), I would have liked even more of that.
    
    I had a good experience and felt that I learned new skills to complement my current skills. The program was fairly flexible and the input from fellow students made for an enriching experience. My goal was to complement and despecialize my current skill set as a chemical engineer. Marquette's program was the best fit for my work/life/family balance. I felt that I received a high quality education that I can use years down the road.
    
    -I would have liked more flexibility in the classes you can take. Marquette has so many great classes, but the core MBA program only gives room to take two of them.
    
    -The Marquette part-time program is the best game in town for those working and living in Milwaukee who want their classes to be in close proximity. However, for those who have the ability to do a full time program or travel to Chicago for part-time program classes, I would encourage that route.