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Executive MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

University of Texas, San Antonio

College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • University of Texas at San Antonio
      • One UTSA Circle
      • TX
      • San Antonio, 782490634, Texas
      • United States
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Length of program (months): 21

    • Classes meet:

        • Alternate weekends

    • Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

      • Resident: $51,500.00
      • Non Resident: $67,000.00

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 674
      • Full-Time MBA: 9
      • Part-Time MBA: 240
      • Executive MBA: 62
      • PhD Program: 92
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 5,277
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Other, Master of Technology, Master of International Management/Business

  • ADMISSIONS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT Required? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 75th Percentile 590
      • 50th Percentile (median) 560
      • 90th Percentile 640
      • Average GMAT Score 547
      • 10th Percentile 330
      • 25th Percentile 450

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 580
      • 75th Percentile 610
      • 10th Percentile 560
      • 90th Percentile 640
      • 50th Percentile (median) 590
      • Average GMAT Score 603
      • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
      • Application fee: $45.00
      • Applicant interviews are: Required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 98 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • EMBA students in newest entering class who are:

      • Female: 9 %
      • International: 3 %

    • Entering students are from the following regions:

      • Asia: 3 %
      • North America: 97 %

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

      • Southwest: 100 %

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

      • African American: 3 %
      • Asian American: 12 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 16 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 69 %
      • Average months of work experience: 179

    • Middle 80% range work experience in months:

      • From: 84
      • To: 300
      • Average age: 38

    • Middle 80% age range:

      • From: 31
      • To: 47

    • Work background:

      • Have advanced degrees: 33 %
      • Work in the nonprofit sector: 3 %
      • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 16 %
      • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 3 %
      • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 100 %
      • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $105,000.00

    • Middle 80% base salary range:

      • Low: $75,000.00
      • High: $135,000.00

    • Students work in these functional categories:

      • Finance/Accounting 15 %
      • General Management : 25 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 13 %
      • Management Information Systems : 19 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 13 %
      • Other: 15 %

    • Students work in these industries:

      • Consulting: 3 %
      • Consumer Products: 3 %
      • Financial Services: 16 %
      • Government: 16 %
      • Manufacturing: 9 %
      • Non-Profit: 3 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 12 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 21 %
      • Real Estate: 3 %
      • Technology: 9 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Top organizations sending students:

      • USAA
      • Valero Energy
      • Tesoro
      • H-E-B
      • Zachry Industial Inc.

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 37 %
      • 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: 188

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 73
      • Non-Tenured: 52

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 63

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 19
      • Non-Tenured: 43

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 37
      • Non-Tenured: 37

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 10

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 73
      • Non-Tenured: 65

  • STUDENT LIFE

      • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
      • Description: International Seminar in Europe-one week
      • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
      • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? No
      • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Provides meals, study team space, programs for spouses and children and handles all program administration.
      • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 10

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 25 %
      • Lectures: 25 %
      • Simulations: 10 %
      • Team Projects: 20 %
      • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 0 %
      • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 21 %
      • Average class size, core EMBA class: 32
      • Average class size, EMBA electives: 32
      • Elective courses: 0

    • 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: 2011
      • Distance-learning EMBA via the Internet, videoconferencing, or some other medium? No
      • Leading areas of study: Leadership, Strategy, General Management, Organizational Behavior, Corporate Social Responsibility

    • 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
      • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2011

    • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Financial Studies Center (18 Bloomberg terminals, computers, TV’s, stock tickers); ALIAS (Advanced Labs for Infrastructure Assur & Sec), Integrated KACE mgt tools & appliances to manage all computers in College of Bus; Developed cyber security grants & research incl target networks and intrusion detection environments; comp classrooms, fac/staff desktops upgraded; added servers to the Citrix environ (to increase research capabilities); added a DAE to SAN & virtualized existing infrastructure
      • Amount spent: $903,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 3,534
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $215.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business school endowment $8,853,339.00
      • 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.utsa.edu
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • 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: Permissable

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • Additional school comments: The EMBA at UTSA is a personal learning journey that seeks to integrate the traditional bottom line of profit with the broader bottom line of purpose and meaning. The program invites students into a learning community to explore foundational business issues within the context of a personal leadership inquiry.

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