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Full-Time MBA Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Auburn University

College of Business

  • Program Basics

      • On Campus MBA Program
      • Auburn University College of Business
      • 415 W. Magnolia Ave, Suite 503
      • AL
      • Auburn, 36849, Alabama
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://www.busines.auburn.edu/mba
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: mbainfo@auburn.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 578
      • Full-Time MBA: 68
      • Part-Time MBA: 333
      • Executive MBA: 116
      • PhD Program: 28
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Other
      • Master of Science in Information Systems

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

      • Resident: $22,754.00
      • Nonresident: $47,054.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $29,750.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $44,330.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 17

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Nov 1, 2011
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Mar 1, 2012
      • Does the program have rolling admissions? No
      • Is proficiency in English required for admission? Yes
      • Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required? Yes

    • Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

        • IELTS
        • TOEFL Internet Based Test
        • TOEFL Paper-based Test
      • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 550

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

      • GMAT Score: Very Important
      • Resume/Work Experience: Important
      • Application Essays: Very Important
      • Interviews: Very Important
      • Recommendations: Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 75
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 52 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 80 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 3 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 100 %
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 61 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 53 %
      • Applications from women received: 44 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • Full-time students in newest entering class (2010-2011) that are:

      • Female: 29 %
      • International: 36 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Asia: 32 %
      • North America: 65 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 %

    • Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class that are:

      • African American: 10 %
      • Asian American: 5 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 85 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class who are from the following regions:

      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 5 %
      • South: 90 %
      • Southwest: 5 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 26
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 0

    • Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:

      • From: 0
      • To: 84
      • Median age of entering class: 23
      • Mean age of entering class: 24

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
      • Full-time MBAs who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 98 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 98 %
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • a combination of need and merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? As part of the admissions application
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? No

  • GMAT

      • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 90th Percentile 700
      • 50th Percentile (median) 585
      • 75th Percentile 665
      • 25th Percentile 508
      • Average GMAT Score 579
      • 10th Percentile 433

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 620
      • 75th Percentile 700
      • 50th Percentile (median) 650
      • 90th Percentile 720
      • Average GMAT Score 657
      • 10th Percentile 599

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 40
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 10
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 44

    • Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

        • Finance
        • Management Information Systems
        • Marketing
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Manufacturing and Technology Management
        • Operations Management
        • Statistics and Operations Research
        • Sports Business

    • Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

        • MBA/MSIM (Information Management)
        • Other
        • MBA/MSIE (Industrial Engineering)
      • Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program? No

    • The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:

        • Finance
        • Marketing
        • Management Information Systems
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Operations Management

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 118

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 75
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 26

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 17

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4
      • Non-Tenured: 8

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 55
      • Non-Tenured: 18

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Other
        • Business Ethics

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Black MBA Association
        • Other

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Experiential Learning: 5 %
      • Lectures: 55 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must write a complete business plan
        • Students are required to complete international experience
        • Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties
        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: In the past three years, the College of Business has replaced classroom and lab PCs; built a state-of-the-art trading/investment lab complete with digital signage displaying market indices, financial information, and news feeds; purchased teleconferencing equipment, interactive whiteboards, and a career services management system for the Office of Professional & Career Development; purchased two flight simulators for the flight education program; replaced servers and enhanced back-up systems.

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 2,868
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 5 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $221.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $35,912,633.00
      • 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.aualum.org/aoc/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
      • Does the B-SCHOOL offer career services for alumni? Yes
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 76 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 8 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 21 %

    • Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

      • Destination: Atlanta, GA
      • Month: March 2011
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: New York, NY
      • Month: March 2011
      • Amount Paid By School: Full

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 12 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 48 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 40 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 53 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 13 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 34 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Quorum Business Solutions 2
      • Accenture 2
      • Ernst & Young 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 19 %

    • Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

      • Mean base salary: $52,913.00
      • Median base salary: $55,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $5,200.00
      • Median signing bonus: $5,400.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $7,800.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $5,900.00

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

      • Consulting: 6 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 25 %
      • General Management: 6 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 6 %
      • Management Information Systems: 13 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 6 %
      • Other: 38 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 13 %
      • Consulting: 13 %
      • Financial Services: 34 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 20 %
      • Other: 20 %

    • Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

      • Asia: 12 %
      • North America: 88 %

    • Within the U.S., graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

      • Mid-Atlantic: 7 %
      • South: 66 %
      • Southwest: 20 %
      • West: 7 %

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • School Comments: Auburn's Full Time MBA Program offers a dual MBA/MSBA in Finance.

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