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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Concordia University

Molson School of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Executive MBA
      • John Molson School of Business
      • 1450 Guy Street
      • Suite MB 6.209
      • Montreal, H3H 0A1
      • Canada
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Length of program (months): 15

    • Classes meet:

        • Every weekend
        • Other

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $68,000.00
      • Non Resident: $68,000.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,089
      • Full-Time MBA: 275
      • Part-Time MBA: 172
      • Executive MBA: 37
      • PhD Program: 91
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 6,479
      • Other graduate degree programs: Other

  • ADMISSIONS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT Required? Yes
      • 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? Applicants who have an undergraduate degree with a GPA of 3.0 or better, a Masters or PhD degree are not required to write the GMAT. All others must.

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 90th Percentile 600
      • 75th Percentile 580
      • 25th Percentile 480
      • 50th Percentile (median) 510
      • 10th Percentile 410
      • Average GMAT Score 507

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 90th Percentile 600
      • 75th Percentile 580
      • 25th Percentile 480
      • 50th Percentile (median) 510
      • Average GMAT Score 507
      • 10th Percentile 410
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? No
      • Application fee: $88.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 41
      • Applicants accepted: 63 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 73 %
      • 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: 26 %
      • International: 10 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Asia: 10 %
      • North America: 90 %
      • Average months of work experience: 144

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 96
      • To: 204
      • Average age: 35

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 30
      • To: 39

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 74 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 5 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 15 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 11 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 100 %

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 16 %
      • Finance/Accounting 5 %
      • General Management : 37 %
      • Human Resources: 5 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 5 %
      • Management Information Systems : 5 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 5 %
      • Other: 22 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 26 %
      • Consumer Products: 10 %
      • Financial Services: 5 %
      • Government: 5 %
      • Manufacturing: 5 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 5 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 11 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 5 %
      • Other: 28 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Pratt & Whitney
      • Bombardier
      • Pepsico
      • General Electric
      • Concordia University

  • FINANCIAL AID

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

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 309

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 102
      • Non-Tenured: 48

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 159

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 51
      • Non-Tenured: 42

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 92
      • Non-Tenured: 64

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 74
      • Non-Tenured: 29

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: The international study trip will take the students to Sao Paulo(Brazil), Santiago(Chile) and Lima(Peru).The International Study Trip is a 12-14 day overseas trip scheduled for the end of the second of the four semester (2 year) EMBA Program.
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? No
      • Description: n/a
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 12

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 30 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 20 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 30 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 80 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 80 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 20
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 20
      • Elective courses: 0

    • New electives added in past 12 months:

      • no elective courses

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 8
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 25
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2010
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Joint degree programs: Other
      • Leading areas of study: Accounting, Leadership, Strategy, Other
      • Description: sustainability

    • Graduation Requirements:

        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2010

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: All state-of-the-art classrooms equiped with computer, projector, smart controls; 2 of them equiped with video-conferencing system; Trading Room equiped with Bloomberg terminals and financial datasets; 3 computer labs for students; Laboratory for Sensory Research; Wifi coverage across campus;
      • Amount spent: $1,850,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 3,571
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 12
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 9
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 9
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $1,018.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business school endowment $9,179,898.00
      • 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://alumni.concordia.ca/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/en/community-a-alumni
      • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

  • 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: Recruiters targeting EMBA students can recruit through the Career Services of the business school and not directly through the program

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