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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

INCAE Business School

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • INCAE Business School Excecutive Program
      • INCAE BUSINESS SCHOOL
      • Junto a Vivero Procesa, La Garita de Alajuela
      • WKG, CAMPUS, 9604050
      • Costa Rica
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • non profit
      • Name: INCAE Business School
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 54
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 55
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 6,166
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? No
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: Yes

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other
        • EQUIS
        • European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)
      • Other accreditation by: SACS

  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 31
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 37
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 41

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 175
      • Full-Time MBA: 105
      • Executive MBA: 70
      • PhD Program: 0
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 0
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of International Management/Business

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $550.00
      • High: $10,850.00

    • Range of costs, custom programs:

      • Low: $6,350.00
      • High: $150,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 13 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 65 %

    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 30 %
      • International : 65 %
      • Earning more than $200,000 annually: 5 %
      • Business owners: 5 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 95 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Programa Alta Gerencia
      • Type of Course: High Management Program
      • Course Length: 22 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $10,850.00
      • Comments: THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN TAUGHT SINCE 1964. IT IS INCAE’S MOST SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM, RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT LATIN AMERICA. FEE INCLUDES ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS AND DOES NOT INCLUDE AIR FARE. THE PROGRAM IS ATTENDED BY OVER 100 EXECUTIVES, 28% FROM COSTA RICA AND 72% FROM OTHER COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA.
      • Title: Young Executive Program
      • Type of Course: Junior Management
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $3,100.00
      • Comments: THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL SINCE IT STARTED IN 2003. IT IS ATTENDED BY OVER 60 OF THE BEST YOUNG GRADUATES FROM UNIVERSITIES IN LATIN AMERICA, 33% FROM COSTA RICA AND 67% FROM OTHER COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA
      • Title: Middle Management Program
      • Type of Course: Middle Management
      • Course Length: 13 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $5,950.00
      • Comments: THE MIDDLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM HAS BEEN IN THE MARKET FOR 4 SUCCESSFUL YEARS. SCHEDULED TWICE A YEAR, ONCE IN COSTA RICA AND ONCE IN NICARAGUA IS ATTENDED BY OVER 40 EXECUTIVES EACH YEAR, 20% FROM COSTA RICA AND NICARAGUA, 72% FROM OTHER COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA
      • Title: Young Leadership Program
      • Type of Course: Junior Management
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $3,100.00
      • Title: Gerencia con Liderazgo
      • Type of Course: Leadership for High Management
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $3,400.00
      • Comments: THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN IN THE MARKET FOR THE LAST 9 YEARS. IT IS ATTENDED BY OVER 60 EXECUTIVES EACH YEAR, 52% FROM COSTA RICA AND 48% FROM OTHER COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA. AVAILABLE ONLY IN COSTA RICA, INCLUDES RAFTING AND OTHER LEADERSHIP TECHNIQUES.
      • Title: Administración de Negocios para abogados
      • Type of Course: Business Management for Lawyers
      • Course Length: 10 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $4,100.00
      • Title: Programa de Alta Dirección en Instituciones Microfinancieras
      • Type of Course: Microfinance
      • Course Length: 16 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $4,100.00
      • Title: Programa Alta Dirección Bancaria
      • Type of Course: Finance
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $3,500.00
      • Title: Diplomado en Gerencia y Legislación Laboral
      • Type of Course: Middle Management
      • Course Length: 16 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $7,200.00
      • Title: Como Gerenciar la fuerza de ventas para ser exitosos
      • Type of Course: marketing
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,100.00

    • International programs:

      • Title: Gerentes Líderes
      • Type of Course: Management
      • Partner(s): ASFADE
      • Year Established: 2009
      • Title: Global Management Program
      • Type of Course: Management
      • Country: Spain / Perú
      • Partner(s): ESADE Business School
      • Year Established: 2010

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 47

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 42

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 5

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 35

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 34

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 42

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 70 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 5 %
      • Lectures: 3 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 10 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 80 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 10 %
      • Other: 10 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 3 %
      • International: 43 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Operation Plataform (students files online and Academic reports), E-Learning plataform and Remote Learner, Fiber Optic network for data, video and phone for all the campus, WebCast and Webinars, new equipment, new Band wide & Infraestructure equipment, Google Education Plataform, New hardware and software´s faculty, license and personal development
      • Amount spent: $1,800,000.00

  • COMMENTS

      • INCAE HAS 2 CAMPUSES: 1 IN COSTA RICA AND ANOTHER ONE IN NICARAGUA. OUR ACADEMIC YEAR GOES FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER. WE MAKE EVENTS IN MORE THAN 12 COUNTRIES AROUND LATIN AMERICA THROUGH THE YEAR. FOR THIS SURVEY WE HANDED OUT INFORMATION FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2009, EXCEPT FOR THOSE CASES IN THE SURVEY WHERE WE WERE ASKED OTHERWISE.

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