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

Clarkson University

School of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Accelerated One Year MBA & Global MBA
      • Clarkson University
      • 8 Clarkson Ave
      • Box 5770
      • Potsdam, 136999, New York
      • United States
      • Program Web site: www.clarkson.edu
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: busgrad@clarkson.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 88
      • Full-Time MBA: 64
      • Part-Time MBA: 24
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Other
      • Engineering and Global Operations Management, MS

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $42,520.00
      • Nonresident: $42,520.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $55,020.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $55,020.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 9

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Aug 1, 2011
      • 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: 550

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 173
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 78 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 61 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 2 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 2 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 5
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 5
      • Applicant interviews are: Recommended
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 7 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 30 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 45 %
      • Applications from women received: 43 %
      • Mean base salary forgone: $43,500.00
      • Median base salary forgone: $47,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 36 %
      • International: 36 %
      • Married: 3 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 1 %
      • Asia: 35 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 64 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 2 %
      • Asian American: 1 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 77 %
      • Chose not to report: 20 %
      • Other: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 96 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 2 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 2 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 12
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 26

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

      • From: 48
      • To: 96
      • Median age of entering class: 29
      • Mean age of entering class: 24

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school
      • Full-time MBAs who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 100 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 100 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $35,600.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $38,200.00
      • 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: $8,000.00
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? No
      • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $39,169.00

  • GMAT

      • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes
      • If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? Work Experience and post graduate degrees

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 75th Percentile 560
      • Average GMAT Score 520
      • 50th Percentile (median) 520
      • 90th Percentile 620
      • 25th Percentile 490
      • 10th Percentile 440

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 510
      • 75th Percentile 590
      • 90th Percentile 680
      • Average GMAT Score 560
      • 10th Percentile 490
      • 50th Percentile (median) 54

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 32
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 11
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 18

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

      • Environmental Policy
      • Industrial Organization in the Supply Chain

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

        • Finance
        • Entrepreneurship
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Supply Chain Management
        • Accounting
        • Human Resource Management
        • Manufacturing and Technology Management
        • Operations Management
        • International Business

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

        • MBA/ME (Engineering)
      • 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:

        • Entrepreneurship
        • Other
        • Supply Chain Management
        • International Business
        • Operations Management

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 40

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 20

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 6

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4
      • Non-Tenured: 1

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 1

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 11

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Business Ethics
        • Environmental
        • Manufacturing
        • Human Resources

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 15 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 20 %
      • Lectures: 15 %
      • Simulations: 20 %
      • Team Projects: 25 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • 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
      • n/a

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Upgrade of plasma televisions; Video conferencing technology; Implementation of distance learning platforms such as Adobe Connect;
      • Amount spent: $85,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 1,692
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 24
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 8 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $242.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $17,500,000.00
      • 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://clarkson.edu/alumni/index.html#
      • 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? Yes

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 97 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 3 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

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

      • Destination: Potdam, NY
      • Month: September, January
      • Amount Paid By School: 18750

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 35 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 60 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 5 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 55 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 48 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 3 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 4 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 45 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 45 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 3 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 2 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • IBM 1
      • Electric Boat 1
      • Hilty Corporation 1
      • Xerox 1
      • Horizon Solutions 1
      • Rifenburg Construction 1
      • HP Hood 1
      • Goodrich Corporation 1
      • Schenidr Corporation 1
      • St- Gobian 1
      • Whitting Turner Construction 1
      • Anderson Instruments 1
      • TE Connections 1
      • Life Technologies 1
      • Burton Snowboards 2
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 22 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $55,275.00
      • Median base salary: $54,025.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $3,563.00
      • Median signing bonus: $3,250.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $9,000.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $9,000.00

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

      • Consulting: 12 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 6 %
      • General Management: 21 %
      • Human Resources: 2 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 10 %
      • Management Information Systems: 3 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 41 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 12 %
      • Consumer Products: 0 %
      • Financial Services: 0 %
      • Manufacturing: 58 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 6 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 15 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 0 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 6 %
      • Other: 3 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 7 %
      • Europe: 2 %
      • North America: 91 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 70 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 9 %
      • South: 12 %
      • Southwest: 5 %
      • Midwest: 4 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • School Comments: Students are provided with the opportunity to study abroad in our Global MBA Program

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