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

Clark University

Graduate School of Management

  • Program Basics

      • Clark Full-time MBA
      • Graduate School of Management
      • 950 Main Street
      • Worcester, 01610, Massachusetts
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://www.clarku.edu/gsom
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: clarkmba@clarku.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 430
      • Full-Time MBA: 131
      • Part-Time MBA: 103
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Finance
      • MBA in Social Change; MBA/MA in Community Development & Planning; MBA/MA in Environmental Science & Policy

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $62,960.00
      • Nonresident: $62,960.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $44,580.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $44,580.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 21

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Spring 2012
      • Deadline: Dec 1, 2011
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Jun 1, 2012
      • Does the program have rolling admissions? Yes
      • 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: 577

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 326
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 42 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 30 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 0 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 0 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 9
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 9
      • Applicant interviews are: Recommended

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 88 %
      • Applications from women received: 50 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 49 %
      • International: 68 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 7 %
      • Asia: 49 %
      • Europe: 10 %
      • North America: 32 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 2 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 8 %
      • Asian American: 8 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 23 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 61 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 84 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 8 %
      • West: 8 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 17
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 12

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

      • From: 0
      • To: 48
      • Median age of entering class: 24
      • Mean age of entering class: 25

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • academic merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? all candidates are considered for scholarship
      • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $13,800.00
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 100 %
      • 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? Yes

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 10th Percentile 460
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • 25th Percentile 550
      • 50th Percentile (median) 590
      • 90th Percentile 680
      • Average GMAT Score 582

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 530
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • 50th Percentile (median) 590
      • 90th Percentile 690
      • 10th Percentile 390
      • Average GMAT Score 566

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 22
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 17
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 46

    • Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2010:

      • Green Marketing; Green Supply Chain;
      • Sustainability Consulting Projects;
      • Advanced Accounting; Internet & Social Media;
      • Cultivating & Managing Innovation;
      • Quantitative Models; Energy Management;

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

        • Finance
        • Management Information Systems
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Accounting
        • International Business
      • Social Change: environemtal policy, social reponsibility, community development, social entrepreneurship, international development

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

        • MBA/MS (Science)
        • MBA/MA (Arts)
      • Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program? Yes

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

        • Finance
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Other
        • International Business

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 46

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 6
      • Non-Tenured: 8

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 5

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 6

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 12

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
        • Finance

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 21 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 35 %
      • Simulations: 7 %
      • Team Projects: 16 %
      • Other: 6 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: In the annual university technology cycle, approximately 29 new and replacement computers have been purchased in the last 3 fiscal years. 2 renovation projects: 1 at satellite location (4 classrooms) and 1 at main campus (2 classrooms), that involved the purchase and installation of new technology: projectors, screens, computers, controls, and associated wiring. In summer 2008, 18 desktop computers were purchased and installed in the computer lab.
      • Amount spent: $146,600.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 2,885
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 0
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 0
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $831.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $75.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $241,832.00
      • 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: https://clarkconnect.clarku.edu/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.linkedin.com/
      • 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: 83 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 10 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 7 %

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

      • Destination: Net Impact Career Fair & Conference, Michigan
      • Month: November
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: MA Green Career Conference
      • Month: September
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: Asian MBA--NYC
      • Month: September
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: Chicago Merchantile Exchange Commodity Trading Challenge
      • Month: April
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: World Finance Job Conference
      • Month: April
      • Amount Paid By School: Full

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • No information provided by graduate: 100 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 17 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 22 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 60 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 16 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 24 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 60 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • EMC 1
      • Ernst & Young 1
      • Staples 1
      • Standard & Poor's 1
      • Tommy Hilfiger 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 17 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $44,500.00
      • Median base salary: $43,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $7,112.00
      • Median signing bonus: $6,725.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $0.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $0.00

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

      • Consulting: 9 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 35 %
      • General Management: 4 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 26 %
      • Management Information Systems: 0 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 4 %
      • Other: 22 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 9 %
      • Consumer Products: 0 %
      • Financial Services: 39 %
      • Manufacturing: 4 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 0 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 13 %
      • Other: 35 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 22 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 78 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 100 %

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