Program Basics

• • UCLA Anderson Executive MBA
  • UCLA Anderson School of Management
  • 110 Westwood Plaza
  • Suite A105
  • Los Angeles, 90095, California
  • United States
  • Status:
    • Public
  • Length of program (months): 22

• Classes meet:

  • • Alternate weekends
    • Occasional week-long sessions

• Tuition and fees for entire EMBA program:

  • Resident: $113,661.00
  • Non Resident: $113,661.00

• Graduate business school is accredited by:

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

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 1,943
  • Full-Time MBA: 747
  • Part-Time MBA: 842
  • Executive MBA: 246
  • PhD Program: 75
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 0
  • Other graduate degree programs: Other

ADMISSIONS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 50th Percentile (median) 640
  • 10th Percentile 460
  • 75th Percentile 680
  • 90th Percentile 720
  • Average GMAT Score 618
  • 25th Percentile 560

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 10th Percentile 610
  • 75th Percentile 690
  • Average GMAT Score 664
  • 50th Percentile (median) 650
  • 25th Percentile 620
  • 90th Percentile 720
• • Is the TOEFL required for non-English speakers? Yes
  • Application fee: $200.00
  • Number of applications to the newest class: 134
  • Applicants accepted: 67 %
  • Admitted applicants enrolled: 82 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 15
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 3
  • 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: 8 %

• Entering students are from the following regions:

  • Africa: 1 %
  • Asia: 4 %
  • Europe: 3 %
  • North America: 84 %
  • Oceania: 0 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
  • Dual citizenship: 8 %

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

  • West: 97 %
  • Midwest: 0 %
  • Southwest: 3 %
  • South: 0 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
  • Northeast: 0 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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

  • African American: 5 %
  • Asian American: 17 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 7 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 52 %
  • Chose not to report: 19 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Average months of work experience: 156

• Middle 80% range work experience in months:

  • From: 96
  • To: 240
• • Average age: 36

• Middle 80% age range:

  • From: 30
  • To: 46

• Work background:

  • Have advanced degrees: 32 %
  • Work in the nonprofit sector: 3 %
  • Work at an organization with 100 or fewer employees: 10 %
  • Have title of president, CEO, or chairman: 8 %
• • EMBA students living within 45 miles of campus: 55 %
  • Average base salary for new EMBA entrant: $123,000.00

• Middle 80% base salary range:

  • Low: $85,000.00
  • High: $147,000.00

• Students work in these functional categories:

  • Consulting: 7 %
  • Finance/Accounting 19 %
  • General Management : 6 %
  • Human Resources: 2 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 15 %
  • Management Information Systems : 15 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 6 %
  • Other: 30 %

• Students work in these industries:

  • Consulting: 9 %
  • Consumer Products: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 6 %
  • Government: 8 %
  • Manufacturing: 5 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 10 %
  • Non-Profit: 3 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 15 %
  • Real Estate: 4 %
  • Technology: 11 %
  • Other: 26 %

• Top organizations sending students:

  • Department of Defense (Army, Navy, Air Force)
  • CISCO
  • Disney
  • Amgen
  • Allergan/UCLA

FINANCIAL AID

• • EMBAs receiving financial aid through school: 45 %
  • EMBA scholarships are awarded based on: Merit, Need
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded in past 12 months: 0
  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to EMBAs, regardless of nationality? Yes
  • Maximum loan amount: $42,000.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 157

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 65
  • Non-Tenured: 25

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 67

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 10
  • Non-Tenured: 19

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 17
  • Non-Tenured: 12

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 23
  • Non-Tenured: 21

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 65
  • Non-Tenured: 58

STUDENT LIFE

• • Does the program include a mandatory international trip or project? Yes
  • Description: 5-day International Business Seminar which includes in-country class lectures, company visits, and cultural activities
  • Does the school offer pre-program orientation for all EMBA participants? Yes
  • Does the school offer temporary housing/accommodations for EMBA participants? Yes
  • Description: Local hotels
  • Do EMBAs have access to a health club or gym? No
  • Special student/home/work/life initiatives: Significant others' events (family dinners/picnics), alumni panelists who share their experiences and discuss what worked for them, buddy program between the continuing class and new students
  • How far away from a major airport are most EMBA classes held? (miles) 10

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods:

  • Case Study: 15 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 25 %
  • Lectures: 35 %
  • Simulations: 0 %
  • Team Projects: 25 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 100 %
  • Tenured/tenure-track EMBA faculty: 81 %
  • Average class size, core EMBA class: 69
  • Average class size, EMBA electives: 32
  • Elective courses: 78

• New electives added in past 12 months:

  • Introduction to Online One-to-One Marketing
  • Management Communications
  • International Studies in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia
  • International Exchange courses at ESSEC (Paris, France)

• Estimated hours per week in class and outside classwork:

  • Hours per week in class: 8
  • Hours per week outside of class spent on classwork: 21
• • 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/MD (Medicine), Other, MBA/MSN (Nursing), MBA/MCS (Computer Science)
  • Leading areas of study: Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Leadership, Economics

• 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
• • Significant recent changes to EMBA program: 2008

• TECHNOLOGY

  • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Enhanced classroom technology, online course evaluations, AV technology in communications course, central SharePoint portal access, AppV, wireless upgrades, improved network security, SSL VPN, network-based events displays, active learning group pods & Boardroom construction in Rosenfeld Library, construction of Jim Easton Global Connection Classroom (showcase tech), new student email calendar system, network & storage infrastructure, custom administrative CRM system, virtual servers
  • Amount spent: $4,100,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 20,798
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 41
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 18
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 21
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $2,195.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $150.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in exess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $122,867,170.00
  • 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.ucla.edu
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x24248.xml
  • 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: Non-sponsored EMBAs can participate. Company-sponsored EMBAs can participate with signed employer waivers. Students complete workshop and coaching requirements to participate in on-campus recruiting.

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • Additional school comments: The EMBA program has instituted certificates in five areas: Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, Leaders in Sustainability, and Advanced International Management, and provides increasing international opportunities, e.g. six exchange partnerships with top international business schools and 11 one-week international travel study courses. Its mandatory experiential Strategic Management Research project also has an international focus and places a strong emphasis on developing global leaders.

• • -Every lecture was a learning experience for me. The support staff was tireless and extremely helpful and the faculty was the best, collectively, that I'd seen (and I have two prior graduate degrees from top 10 schools). I thoroughly enjoyed the interaction, both in the classroom and outside of it, with my classmates. The debate amongst the faculty and ourselves was lively and instructive.
    
    -Our one-week block sessions (two courses, two credits each, five days a week with significant workload before and after the class) were so intense that it was difficult to synthesize the material that quickly. The format works for some subjects (negotiations) but not others (M&A). Our exchange programs with international schools were fantastic except that the partner schools often didn't share their syllabi until the last minute, and some students ended up taking classes that were far too similar to courses we had already taken.
    
    -I began applying principles learned immediately (since our first quarter) and I have no qualms about advising upper management at my company or at any company on a wide range of matters related to effectively running the business.
    
    -The school should improve the linkages between the alumni program and career services. Also, school resources, especially library resources should always be available to alumni for research purposes.
    
    -UCLA Anderson's EMBA program far exceeded my expectations and I am so happy I did this program. It has already returned far more than I have put in. Having done international EMBA program swap at London Business School and researching other programs before I decided on Anderson, I feel this is the best program offered based on high caliber professors, highly intelligent classmates and world-class facilities.
    
    -I think that there were some administrative improvements that could be made. For example, getting the two classes in program at the same time together on campus for a class weekend so that we can bond with them a bit more. I felt a bit removed from the full time students and the other EMBAs would have been ideal to bond with.
    
    -UCLA's program has the best international education programs around. Overall, the program is truly a rigorous educational experience and supported by the best administration and admission dean. The professors are truly interested in learning from their students, have the patience and consideration to listen and respond, and provide a great learning experience.
    
    -I think that at the EMBA level more emphasis could be placed on effective management behaviors rather then theoretical ideas. For example, professional dress and presentation skills could have been better developed.
    
    -The networking provided far exceeded my expectations both in terms of assistance offered by professor and staff, as well as by the amount of networking events offered on campus every week. The value of the SMR (senior capstone thesis) project really put all of the skills to work that we had learned during the course of the program. My learning experience benefitted as much from my peers, as from the professors. UCLA attracts the perfect blend of talent tempered with a high degree of professionalism and conscientiousness and I am proud to stand among them and call myself an alum.
    
    -I would like to see more guest speakers and evening events where the school invites senior executives to meet with us. This was very impressive and I would have liked to see even more. The school is able to attract top management to speak to the students and I feel more of these sessions would only enhance the program.
    
    -For an EMBA program as rigorous as UCLA's, the quality of some of the students left something to be desired. There was a lack of commitment of some of the students, which was evident in the study groups, and the administration left us to our own resources to deal with this. This relates to my above statement regarding a better screening program. Not everyone who tests well and interviews well is qualified to be an EMBA, especially in UCLA's prestigious program, and it was quite evident in some of the work and dedication of some of the students. However, this does not take away from the fact that there were outstanding students who made the learning process that much better.
    
    -The UCLA EMBA program is well diversified to give it's students options in pursuing various tracks such as entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, international business in addition to the core subject. The six-month SMR field study if the best part of the program as it gives the student real world experience to work on a live strategic problem.