EXECUTIVE MBA Profiles Publish Date 11/05/09

Georgetown University

McDonough School of Business

Getting In

PROGRAM BASICS

Global Executive MBA - Georgetown Campus

McDonough School of Business

Rafik B. Hariri Building
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington , D.C. 20057 United States

Status:

Private Institution

Length of program (months):

Classes meet:

Alternate weekends

Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

Resident: $ 105,000
Non Resident: $ 105,000

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

SCHOOL BASICS

Graduate business school enrollment:

Total: 964
Full-Time MBA: 502
Part-time MBA: 342
Executive MBA: 120

Undergraduate business school enrollment:

1,382

Graduate degree programs:

Other graduate degree programs:

Executive Master's in Leadership

ADMISSIONS

Rolling admissions?

Yes

GMAT Required?

Yes

If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment?

N/A

Average GMAT:

613

Middle 80% range of GMAT scores:

From: 550
To: 700

Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers?

Yes

Minimum TOEFL required:

600

Application fee:

$ 175

Number of applications to the newest class:

Applicants accepted:

80 %

Admitted applicants enrolled:

85 %

Reapplicants from prior years:

2 %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

Applicant interviews are:

Required

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

80 %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100 %

CLASS PROFILE

EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

Female: 21 %
International: 26 %

Entering students are from the following regions:

Africa : 5 %
Asia: 7 %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 0 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
Middle East: 7 %
North America: 76 %
Oceania : 0 %
Western Europe: 2 %

Entering North American citizens are from the following regions:

Mid-Atlantic: 100 %

U.S. students in newest entering class who are:

African American: 9 %
Asian American: 18 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 7 %
Multiethnic/Multiracial : 11 %
Native American: 0 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 55 %

Average months of work experience:

157

Middle 80% range work experience, months:

From: 91
To: 180

Average age:

Middle 80% age range:

From: 28
To: 45

Work background:

Have advanced degrees: 33 %
Work in the nonprofit sector: 5 %
Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 7 %

EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus:

88 %

Average base salary for new EMBA entrant:

$ 120,000

Middle 80% base salary range:

Low: $ 70,000
High: $ 150,000

Students work in these functional categories:

Consulting: 21 %
Finance/Accounting: 14 %
General Management : 17 %
Human Resources: 0 %
Marketing/Sales: 10 %
Management Information Systems : 21 %
Operations/Logistics: 0 %
Other: 17 %

Students work in these industries:

Consulting: 21 %
Consumer Products: 0 %
Financial Services: 14 %
Government: 10 %
Manufacturing: 0 %
Media/Entertainment: 10 %
Non-Profit: 5 %
Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
Real Estate: 0 %
Technology: 21 %
Other: 12 %

Top organizations sending students:

IBM
Booz Allen Hamilton
US Military
US Government
AOL

FINANCIAL AID

EMBAs receiving financial aid through school:

0 %

Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months:

Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality?

Academics & Lifestyle

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

143

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 51
Non-Tenured: 42

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 50

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 8
Non-Tenured: 28

Minority Faculty:

Tenured: 9
Non-Tenured: 18

International Faculty:

Tenured: 8
Non-Tenured: 24

Faculty with PhDs:

Tenured: 50
Non-Tenured: 50

Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:

15 %

Faculty who have owned their own business:

15 %

STUDENT LIFE

Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project?

Yes

Description:

Students must complete two international consulting residencies

Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants?

Yes

Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants?

Yes

Description:

hotel accomodations during residencies in the U.S. and abroad

Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym?

Yes

How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles)

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods:

Case Study: 20 %
Distance Learning: 0 %
Experiential Learning: 20 %
Lectures: 20 %
Simulations: 20 %
Team Projects: 20 %

Faculty also teaching in full-time program:

64 %

Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty:

71 %

Average class size, core EMBA class:

Average class size, EMBA electives:

Elective courses:

Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

Hours per week in class: 12
Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 27

Last revision of core EMBA curriculum:

2003

Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium?

Description:

N/A

Group work done via the Internet:

0 %

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

Write a complete business plan

Present final, company-specific project results to relevant parties

Additional EMBA Programs:
EMBA programs run in another country:

Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA Spain (with Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service and the ESADE Business School)

Domestic partnerships or in-house EMBA programs:

N/A

In-house EMBA programs provided for companies:

TECHNOLOGY

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

With the opening of the new Rafik B. Hariri business school building this fall, there have been many technology enhancements. The Technology Center now supports 15 new classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art audio-visual technologies and disabled access tools. They can record and display coordinated voice, computer input, and HD video from the podium. Two classrooms have built-in IP and ISDN video-teleconferencing. In all, the tech center has installed and supports AV display equipment in 77 rooms, including 36 student break-out rooms and three specially equipped IT resource rooms. The new building also has a 400-seat auditorium complete with remote connections capability and HD presentation. The new building also includes a new, specially designed server room. Other improvements include: expanded research databases, including CRSP and Thompsons Financial data services; expanded Bloomberg access from two to 12 terminals; centralized “follow-you” printing; a 100% increase in student e-mail storage space to 200 MB; laptop training and maintenance support and PDA support; streaming video infrastructure; Web conferencing support through Elluminate; free video-teleconferencing services; enhanced remote connectivity, Sharepoint, and IPrint Internet printing services; remote file storage; enhanced network infrastructure with a new IBM blade server and Linux OS; increased full-time staff by 50%, new Web page; virtual tape library backup technology; and an event management system for managing all rooms within the new Hariri Building.

Amount spent:

$ 5,000,000

Alumni Affairs & Careers

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

4,941

Active MBA alumni clubs:

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:

9 %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:

$ 653

Median gift from MBA alumni:

$ 5

Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year?

Yes

Business school endowment

$ 46,603,000

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.georgetown.edu

Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

http://msb.georgetown.edu/alumni

Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Does the school offer EMBA students access to the career services office?

Does the school allow its EMBA students to interview on campus with corporate recruiters targeting executives for full-time jobs?

What is the school's policy concerning recruiters targeting EMBA students for full-time jobs?

We pass along information, provide career development and networking assistance specific to EMBA students.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

Additional school comments:

We do not track the amount of corporate or business experience of the faculty, so that number is n/a.

Graduate Comments

Better logistical support from the administration. However, that did materialize towards the end, when some changes were implemented.

Faculty is outstanding, student body diverse, making the program professionally, intellectually and socially enriching.

The quality of teaching is top notch, as is the research. If I had to mention a weakness, it would be not publishing more case studies. Georgetown professors are not only great teachers, but they are also top consultants. I only wish they published more case studies based on their own consulting experience.

If I had to do it over again, I'd choose the same school for one of the same reasons I chose it in the first place - it offered two overseas residencies that were substantive. I found the opportunity to perform hands-on consulting for real-live businesses invaluable.

Strengths included the fact that they embraced the extensive experience and varied backgrounds of the class and allowed discussion to be enhanced by what everyone brought to the table. Also, the fact that we were able to call Professors by their first names facilitated a respectful environment. There were a few instructors whose workload and teaching style were found by class not to be completely conducive to maximizing learning, and the good news is that they took constructive criticism and made adjustments.

Biggest and only noteworthy complaint are the facilities. The historic ""Car Barn"" did not have windows in the classrooms and was lacking other amenities and features. This is currently being corrected as a brand new $100 Million state of the art business school building is opening this summer. I wish they had completed it 2 years earlier. Now the Georgetown IEMBA program really is perfect.

The good news is that the business school administration took pulse checks throughout the program, so the class was able to voice it's concerns in a professional way and work with the school towards resolution. In my exit survey, I recommended they continue to provide students with that opportunity.

We had vigorous debates and very enthusiastic class participation during most courses. There were very few courses that were most structured and rigid in the lecturing style, inviting less participation, which they could improve going forward. Very minor criticism though.

The combination of excellent faculty, challenging curriculum, and quality of students made for an MBA experience I feel is unmatched by other schools.

Outstanding at drawing examples from current events for use in classroom instruction. Given the international nature of the program, the instructors were also able to draw from the international experience of students themselves, although this was not nearly as well integrated as the examples from current events.

To the school's credit, the administration increased staffing to oversee logistical matters for the program. However, this came as the result of significant lobbying from the class. It would have been great if the increase in staffing came much during the first year.

While I appreciate the program's guidance that EMBA students should target higher-level positions, the economic reality is that career switching will become more common and EMBA students need to consider all options. Career services, even if it means targeting positions normally offered to full-time MBA students, should be offered to EMBA students. This is all the more important considering that more and more EMBA students no longer receive support from their current employer.

Classmates were excellent. A wonderful sense of community was established among the class, but at times this was done independent of the school. Initially there were some problems with administration, but this seems to have been remedied toward the end of my time at Georgetown.

Strengths of instructors included the ability to intertwine effective academic concepts and frameworks with current challenges facing today's companies. Additionally, multiple guest speakers were invited to comment on standard HBR cases and original cases written by faculty. Weaknesses included failure to provide some additional background readings for those students not familiar with advanced concepts.

The true lasting value of an EMBA program is in the cohort and their experiences in the core curriculum. Georgetown University assembled a diverse cohort and provided a strong faculty to introduce problems and provide essential frameworks that allowed the class to grow and learn from each other's previous experiences and unique insights.