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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Suffolk University

Sawyer Business School

  • Program Basics

      • Suffolk University Executive MBA Program
      • Sawyer Business School
      • 8 Ashburton Place
      • Boston, 02115, Massachusetts
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Length of program (months): 21

    • Classes meet:

        • Every weekend

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $82,569.00
      • Non Resident: $82,569.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other
      • NEASC

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,046
      • Full-Time MBA: 140
      • Part-Time MBA: 370
      • Executive MBA: 31
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,192
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance

  • 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? Not applicable.

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • Average GMAT Score N/A
      • 10th Percentile N/A
      • 25th Percentile N/A
      • 50th Percentile (median) N/A
      • 75th Percentile N/A
      • 90th Percentile N/A

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • Average GMAT Score N/A
      • 10th Percentile N/A
      • 25th Percentile N/A
      • 50th Percentile (median) N/A
      • 75th Percentile N/A
      • 90th Percentile N/A
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
      • Application fee: $50.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 27
      • Applicants accepted: 93 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 60 %
      • 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: 93 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

      • Female: 36 %
      • International: 26 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 10 %
      • Europe: 7 %
      • North America: 74 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 9 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

    • Entering U.S. citizens are from the following regions:

      • West: 0 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • Northeast: 84 %
      • Possessions and territories: 7 %

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

      • African American: 7 %
      • Asian American: 7 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 3 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 9 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 74 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Average months of work experience: 216

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 180
      • To: 288
      • Average age: 40

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 36
      • To: 48

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 19 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 16 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 0 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 6 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 84 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $114,000.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $70,000.00
      • High: $120,000.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 10 %
      • Finance/Accounting 19 %
      • General Management : 19 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 10 %
      • Management Information Systems : 26 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 3 %
      • Other: 13 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 7 %
      • Consumer Products: 0 %
      • Financial Services: 26 %
      • Government: 6 %
      • Manufacturing: 7 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 3 %
      • Non-Profit: 13 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 10 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 17 %
      • Other: 11 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Raytheon Corporation
      • Massachusetts General Hospital
      • Liberty Mutual Group
      • Hanscom Air Force Base
      • Charles River Associates

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 93 %
      • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit
      • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 0
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? Only to domestic students
      • Maximum loan amount: $20,500.00

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 183

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 47
      • Non-Tenured: 63

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 73

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 47

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 11
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 8
      • Non-Tenured: 12

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 47
      • Non-Tenured: 48

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: Global Executive MBA Seminar required to major international markets in established or emerging economies.
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? No
      • Description: Not applicable.
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
      • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: EMBA "Career Essentials" Workshop was introduced in the Fall of 2011 to help students and recent EMBA alumni enhance their professional and educational skills in today's job market. Executive coaching workshops will be introduced in the future.
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 5

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 15 %
      • Distance Learning: 15 %
      • Experiential Learning: 20 %
      • Lectures: 20 %
      • Simulations: 15 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 84 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 75 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 16
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 16
      • Elective courses: 2

    • New electives added in past 12 months:

      • None.

    • 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: 2008
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MHSA (Health Services Administration)
      • Leading areas of study: International Business, Leadership, General Management, Organizational Behavior, Other
      • Description: Business Ethics

    • 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
        • Present final company-specific project results to relevant parties
        • Other
      • Completion of (4) Executive MBA Residential Seminars including Management, Leadership & Teambuilding, Washington Policy, and Global Seminars to expand the executive development and leadership training of the current student.
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2008

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Expansion and complete in-house redesign of the faculty/student Sawyer Computing Center; New help desk tracking system for Business School; Green IT efforts (server and desktop virtualization), including mandatory double sided printing at SBS; Panopto CourseCast – the university’s first anytime, anywhere audio video lecture capture system; Roll out of Wiki platform and the university’s first comprehensive technology knowledge base for users (https://wikis.suffolk.edu/display/OTM/Home)

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 6
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $249.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • 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.suffolk.edu/alumni
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.suffolk.edu/business/1193.html
      • 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: Approved by Suffolk University's Career Services Office and Executive MBA Program.

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • Additional school comments: Executive MBA prospects are interviewed by phone or met with directly in person before being invited to submit an application for admissions consideration.

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