PROGRAM BASICS

• • Crummer Graduate School of Business
  • Professional MBA Program
  • 1000 Holt Avenue-2722
  • Rollins College
  • Winter Park, 32789-4499, Florida
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.rollins.edu/mba/mba-programs/professional-mba/index.html
  • E-mail: mbaadmissions@rollins.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 88 %
  • Average months to complete program: 32
  • 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? Yes

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

  • Resident: $14,200.00
  • Non-Resident: $14,200.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $1,113.00
  • Non-resident $1,113.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 368
  • Full-Time MBA: 164
  • Part-Time MBA: 161
  • Executive MBA: 43
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 0

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 68
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 53 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 72 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Required

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 500
  • 75th Percentile 580
  • 10th Percentile 370
  • 25th Percentile 450
  • Average GMAT Score 504
  • 90th Percentile 630

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 490
  • 25th Percentile 460
  • 10th Percentile 430
  • 75th Percentile 580
  • Average GMAT Score 523
  • 90th Percentile 610
• • 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

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 46 %
  • International students: 8 %

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

  • African American: 0 %
  • Asian American: 0 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 8 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 84 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 8 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 59
  • Median: 48
  • From: 24
  • To: 96
  • One year or less: 4 %

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • Mean: $45,021.00
  • Median: $44,420.00

• Middle 80% range:

  • From: $29,000.00
  • To: $53,100.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 0 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 23 %
  • General Management: 23 %
  • Human Resources: 4 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 23 %
  • Management Information Systems: 8 %
  • Operations/Production: 11 %
  • Other: 8 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 4 %
  • Consumer Products: 7 %
  • Financial Services: 16 %
  • Government: 4 %
  • Manufacturing: 16 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 11 %
  • Non-Profit: 16 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 11 %
  • Real Estate: 4 %
  • Technology: 0 %
  • Other: 11 %

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

  • Lockheed Martin 15
  • Florida Hospital 12
  • Northrup Grumman 10
  • Walt Disney World 8
  • Universal Studios 5
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 28
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 26

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: 55 %

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

  • Institutional Scholarships: 1 %
  • Assistantships: 0 %
  • Loans (private and government): 54 %
• • Mean financial aid package: $20,796.00
  • Median financial aid package: $20,500.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded? A combination of need and merit
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 0
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? all candidates are considered for scholarships
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No
  • Mean outstanding debt at graduation: $48,421.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 36

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 21
  • Non-Tenured: 5

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 10

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 3
  • Non-Tenured: 1

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 2
  • Non-Tenured: 0

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 4
  • Non-Tenured: 0

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 21
  • Non-Tenured: 10
• • Faculty on company boards: 11

STUDENT LIFE

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

  • • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Other
    • Consulting

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

  • • Women in MBA
• • 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: 45 %
  • Distance Learning: 5 %
  • Experiential Learning: 10 %
  • Lectures: 10 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 20
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 23
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 16
  • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 100 %
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 74 %
  • Average core class size: 32
  • Average elective class size: 18
  • Electives available: 30

• Recently added electives:

  • INTL 610 Doing Business in Mexico
  • MKT 613 Sales & Relationship Management
  • ENT 607 Sustainability & Social Entrepreneurship
• • Last curriculum revision: 2011
  • Recent curriculum changes: Legal, Ethical, & Social Issues of Business and Intro to Strategy were added in the first term has 1.5 credit classes. They will replace an elective that would have been taken at a later date.

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Finance
    • General Management
    • Marketing
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Operations Management
    • International Business
• • 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 earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
• • Other graduation requirements: Students must take an international elective as part of their program of study. Can be either a travel or in-class elective course.
• • Credits required to graduate: 51

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Classrooms equipped -laptop connections, document cameras, DVD/VCR combo units, and touchscreen presentation controllers. 2 rooms contain Mediasite hardware, enabling lecture capture- live web streaming. A mobile Mediasite unit for interactive, live streaming events. Online learning platform- Blackboard Learn 9.1, used in both blended learning program and traditional, face-to-face programs. Faculty-students have access to a social media server, for creating Wordpress blogs,Wikis.
  • Amount spent: $1,140,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 6,167
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 11
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 17 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $621.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $32.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $14,947,682.00
  • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? No
  • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • University alumni networking site: http://www.rollins.edu/alumni/
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.rollins.edu/crummer/alumni/index.html
  • 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

• • -I have nothing but positive things to say about my experience at Crummer. The quality of the education that I received along with its positive status within the market is something that I wanted to be apart of. Additionally, I want their legacy to continue by urging high quality candidates to look at the Crummer School of business when considering MBA schools.
    
    -Keep improving the entrepreneurship program. It is already a great program, but I think there is still a lot of room to grow. I am excited to see how it evolves over time.
    
    -Loved the program, the professors, the other students I could network with, and most of all, the Entrepreneurship track.
    
    -The program is too long and too much group work. They spin the group work as real world experience, but in the real world most people would have been fired for their lack of commitment to the program.
    
    -The faculty far exceeded my expectations in their experience, ability to teach and availability and openness to the students. The class size was small (40 students) and the interaction with classmates was part of the education. The program itself is well rounded and I enjoyed the International aspect more than I expected. The program also offers the flexibility to choose from several concentrations and includes a lifetime learning program for alumni to audit courses for free.
    
    -I felt the program ran a little long. Even though I received a well-rounded education, I was required to take more electives then I actually had interest for.
    
    -I have had other co-workers look into attending a graduate program at Rollins College. I tell them that an MBA will give them a wider range of skills than a Master in Liberal Studies. Plus the leadership-training program is amazing at Crummer. I have grown so much more as a person because of that training.
    
    -I believe the program could have been even more challenging. There were some classes where professors "held your hand" instead of allowing you to discover on your own.
    
    -Rollins has completely changed my career outlook for the better because of the dramatic increases in skills pertaining to management, finance, and operations. The return I am receiving from this program is incalculable.
    
    -The duration of the program could be shortened due to some overlap in the finance and accounting course load.
    
    -I was provided with an exceptional graduate level education that challenged me academically as well as prepared me for professional advancement. The networking potential in Central Florida and throughout the state is tremendous.
    
    -There was never any on campus interviews. I expected their to be some given the ranking of the school. I would think that employers would like to be given a front row seat to the graduates from such a school. After all it is what we do after the program that has the most dramatic effect on the continued rankings the school receives. I think the part time program requires different support than the full time program receives. What works for the full time program cannot always be universally applied to the part time world.
    
    -I found my MBA experience at Rollins to be a wonderful learning opportunity and they were eager to really work with, and engage you as a student. The smaller size of the school and the program was truly a benefit. The quality of the faculty was also a huge benefit, as the professors were very diverse and worldly in their fields.
    
    -Career Services should be assisting more, and facilitating networking. Some of the networking events should be held at times other than when PMBA students have class.
    
    -Based in my level of work experience and work involvement I found it very difficult to interact with individuals in my program that had any experience. It seem that many of the students were VERY immature. Most of them attended school because their employers paid for the tuition so they did not care much.
    
    -The MBA program opened my eyes to the world of entrepreneurship. I knew very little of it before starting the MBA program. Now I have multiple opportunities with start up companies that I didn't have before.