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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Temple University

Fox School of Business & Management

  • Program Basics

      • Fox Global Executive MBA Program
      • Fox School of Business
      • One Liberty Boulevard
      • PA
      • Malvern, 19355, Pennsylvania
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Length of program (months): 16

    • Classes meet:

        • Alternate weekends
        • Occasional week-long sessions
        • Other

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $83,500.00
      • Non Resident: $83,500.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other
      • CAHME (Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 887
      • Full-Time MBA: 96
      • Part-Time MBA: 278
      • Executive MBA: 134
      • PhD Program: 151
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 5,690
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Other, Master of Human Resources, Master of Technology, Master of Marketing

  • ADMISSIONS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT Required? No
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes
      • If applicants are not required to take the GMAT, how are EMBA applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? GMAT may be waived based on prior academics and/or technical and professional experience, college transcripts (degree and non-degree), admissions interview
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
      • Application fee: $100.00
      • Number of applications to the newest class: 41
      • Applicants accepted: 98 %
      • Admitted applicants enrolled: 55 %
      • 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: 26 %
      • International: 20 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Africa: 6 %
      • Asia: 33 %
      • Europe: 23 %
      • North America: 24 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 15 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • West: 0 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 79 %
      • Northeast: 21 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

      • African American: 16 %
      • Asian American: 16 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 11 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 58 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Average months of work experience: 192

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 120
      • To: 264
      • Average age: 41

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 34
      • To: 46

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 14 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 14 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 9 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 0 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 50 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $135,700.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $74,000.00
      • High: $225,000.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Finance/Accounting 32 %
      • General Management : 9 %
      • Human Resources: 5 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 14 %
      • Management Information Systems : 14 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 18 %
      • Other: 3 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Consumer Products: 9 %
      • Financial Services: 26 %
      • Government: 9 %
      • Manufacturing: 0 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 9 %
      • Non-Profit: 9 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 23 %
      • Real Estate: 5 %
      • Technology: 5 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • Siemens Healthcare
      • Merck
      • Bank of America
      • SunGuard Higher Education
      • GE

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 71 %
      • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit, Other
      • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 44
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? No

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 321

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 83
      • Non-Tenured: 88

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 150

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 15
      • Non-Tenured: 70

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 29
      • Non-Tenured: 47

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 29
      • Non-Tenured: 38

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 84
      • Non-Tenured: 132

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: International field study in 2nd year
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
      • Description: Free overnight hotel room for distant commuters. Discounted rooms onsite for local residents.
      • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? Yes
      • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Power lunches
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 24

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 25 %
      • Distance Learning: 25 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 25 %
      • Simulations: 0 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %
      • Other: 0 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 71 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 65 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 22
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 22
      • Elective courses: 1

    • New electives added in past 12 months:

      • Project Portfolio Management

    • Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

      • Hours per week in class: 6
      • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 20
      • Last revision of core EMBA curriculum: 2006
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Joint degree programs: MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MD (Medicine), Other, MBA/MS (Science)
      • Leading areas of study: Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, General 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
        • Write a complete business plan
        • Present final company-specific project results to relevant parties
        • Other
      • No grade lower than a B-
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2006

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Alter Hall, a 217sq foot state-of-the-art building, was completed in January 2009. The old building, Speakman Hall, was completely renovated, to match the technologies of Alter Hall. There are 30 Smartrooms with dual projectors and annotation capable LCD, Class Capture with Live streaming, Capital Markets Room with Bloomberg Terminals, Ticker financial feeds, Digital Signage, Wireless Internet access and printing, 22 Email Stations, 26 Break out Rooms and WebEx for Online collaboration.
      • Amount spent: $10,000,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 59,347
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 11
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 4
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 5
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $218.00
      • 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 $19,900,000.00
      • 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.myowlspace.com
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.fox.temple.edu/alumni/
      • 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: Company sponsored EMBAs may not participate in recruiting events.

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