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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

American University of Beirut

Olayan School of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Executive MBA
      • Suliman S. Olayan School of Business
      • P.O. Box 11-0236
      • Beirut
      • Lebanon
      • Status:
        • Other
      • Length of program (months): 20

    • Classes meet:

        • Other

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Non Resident: $52,500.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 127
      • Part-Time MBA: 86
      • Executive MBA: 41
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,058

  • ADMISSIONS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT Required? No
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No
      • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? Each applicant is required to take an analytical test in addition to questions on certain cases during the interview.
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
      • Application fee: $75.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 40
      • Applicants accepted: 50 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 47 %
      • 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
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 100 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

      • Female: 21 %
      • International: 31 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Asia: 26 %
      • Europe: 5 %
      • Dual citizenship: 5 %
      • Average months of work experience: 216

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 108
      • To: 336
      • Average age: 42

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 32
      • To: 51

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 10 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 10 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 26 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 42 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 52 %

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 18 %
      • Finance/Accounting 26 %
      • General Management : 15 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 21 %
      • Management Information Systems : 5 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 5 %
      • Other: 10 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consumer Products: 21 %
      • Financial Services: 11 %
      • Government: 5 %
      • Manufacturing: 6 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 6 %
      • Non-Profit: 5 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 5 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
      • Real Estate: 16 %
      • Technology: 5 %
      • Other: 15 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • National Bank of Kuwait
      • Gulf Bank - Kuwait
      • Central Bank of Kuwait
      • Banque Audi SAL
      • Murex

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? No

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 90

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 6
      • Non-Tenured: 51

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 23

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 11

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 6
      • Non-Tenured: 39

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? No
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? No
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 5

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 30 %
      • Lectures: 35 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 30 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 62 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 19
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 19
      • Elective courses: 2

    • New electives added in past 12 months:

      • Special Topics in Finance
      • Managerial Judgment in Decision Making

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 7
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 18
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2011
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Leading areas of study: Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Operations Management

    • Graduation Requirements:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Class participation accounts for some percentage of students' grades
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2011

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Acquiring licenses for new financial database "DataStream" for financial analysis and company profiles; acquiring licenses for SPSS to be installed in all computer labs for statistical market research and analysis; enhancing course delivery through the installation of a recording system in one of the classes to record seminars and lectures; enhancing website.
      • Amount spent: $650,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 1,398
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 19
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $6,537.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $5,000.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business school endowment $20,579,429.00
      • 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.alumniconnections.com/aub/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://alignwithosb.com/
      • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Do EMBAs have access to career services? Yes
      • Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs? Yes
      • School's policy regarding recruiters targeting EMBAs: No restrictions applied

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • Additional school comments: The EMBA at OSB develops confident and insightful executives able to understand and deal effectively with the complexities of the modern world. The program develops leaders with a broader perspective, deeper strategic thinking and the ability to focus their organizations and drive successful execution. OSB graduates are better problem solvers, better people managers, and better organization builders in and for the Middle East

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