PROGRAM BASICS

• • University of Washington Bothell Business Program
  • UW Bothell MBA Program
  • 18115 Campus Way NE
  • Box 358533, UW1-381
  • Bothell, 98011, Washington
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.uwb.edu/mba
  • E-mail: vtolbert@uwb.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 95 %
  • Average months to complete program: 21
  • 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: $22,215.00
  • Non-Resident: $28,825.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $653.00
  • Non-resident $848.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Part-Time MBA: 121
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 583

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 132
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 67 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 75 %
  • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 75th Percentile 600
  • 25th Percentile 470
  • 90th Percentile 670
  • 50th Percentile (median) 530
  • Average GMAT Score 516
  • 10th Percentile 359

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 560
  • 25th Percentile 500
  • 90th Percentile 680
  • 10th Percentile 470
  • 75th Percentile 618
  • Average GMAT Score 557
• • 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: 580

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 38 %
  • International students: 20 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 76
  • Median: 62
  • From: 16
  • To: 146
  • One year or less: 8 %
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 33
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 31

FINANCIAL AID

• • Part-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
• • 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? Unique scholarship application
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 45

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 8
  • Non-Tenured: 19

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 18

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 14

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 8
  • Non-Tenured: 28

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: 32 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 10 %
  • Lectures: 20 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 8 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 20
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 22
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 8
  • Average core class size: 32
  • Average elective class size: 12
  • Electives available: 9

• Recently added electives:

  • Entrepreurial Marketing
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
• • Last curriculum revision: 2009
  • Recent curriculum changes: In 2009, we launched a second MBA cohort program, the Leadership MBA cohort program at Bellevue. At that time, we made extensive changes to the MBA curriculum.
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Leadership
    • Marketing
    • Technology

• 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: 74

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: The School has set up a brand new campus location in the Bellevue/Redmond area. This location serves Business students exclusively, in state-of-the art classrooms and conference areas,

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 422
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • 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.uwb.edu/alumni
  • 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

• • -The staff and support at UW Bothell is tremendous. The availability of networking within the community and amount of faculty involvement was exceptional. The professors were very well versed in real world applications instead of simply academia.
    
    -The school seeks out professors that fit into the culture of the program, not just those that have great credentials. As such, the professors are engaged with the program, interested in knowing each student, and dedicated to delivering a high quality product. As there was some attrition, being in a program with fewer than 40 students provided unprecedented access to and attention from faculty greatly augmenting my educational experience, not to mention a deep level of interaction among my cohort. I feel this would be highly valuable to any student seeking an MBA. What's in the book is only worth so much. The real value in the program are the professors and the participants. UW Bothell works very hard to ensure the right people are put together to deliver a high quality outcome.
    
    -Grading needs to be significantly improved (as it was mostly random). Faculty quality needs to be monitored more closely.
    
    -The program at UW-Bothell gave me everything I was looking for in an MBA program: knowledge, the skill and discipline to further explore areas of my interest post-MBA, practical applications in my industry of choice, excellent and approachable instructors with real-world work experience
    
    -I would suggest reducing the workload to better align with working professionals.
    
    -The quality of the education I received was amazing. I would encourage anyone who has the ability to get into the program and who wants to excel in his or her career to go for it.
    
    -Some courses and the contents to be taught in those courses were not fully aligned with the course description. Instructors need to be aware of the course descriptions and strive to teach in accord with what should be useful to MBAs.
    
    -High quality program with very engaged faculty and well balanced curriculums between case studies and project work.
    
    -Our cohort was the first to develop an intensive two-week international study tour to West Africa (Ghana) - It was very successful. I hope that in the future this tradition will be kept up and cohorts will have the opportunity to develop international study tours providing that type of hands on global exposure.
    
    -The program offered a lot when it came to networking and connections. The education portion needed to cover a vast amount of skill levels coming in (having a nurse in the program who's never done marketing to marketing executives) and thus for people with significant industry experience in an area, the readings and such were the main source of challenge. The class came to understand this because some of us were novice while others were expert.
    
    -Need to seriously review the curriculum and ditch the complacent non-producers, AKA tenured staff. Also, try to get some people with experience. It is difficult to take someone seriously when they have never actually worked outside of a university.
    
    -Although the program was intense and required a lot of personal sacrifice the knowledge and lifelong friendships gained during the program far outweigh the sacrifice.
    
    -It would be great if there was a stronger connection with the Seattle campus business program. This would not be necessary, but would probably help both programs save on costs as they would not be duplicating efforts.
    
    -The program creates a close-knit group of students who are passionate about learning and enthusiastic about becoming part of something great. Every student was ambitious, outgoing, and fun to work with. I would highly recommend this program to anyone seeking to obtain an MBA