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

University of Connecticut

School of Business

  • Program Basics

      • Full-time MBA Program
      • School of Business
      • 2100 Hillside Road
      • Unit 1041
      • Storrs, 06269, Connecticut
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://mba.uconn.edu
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: UConnMBA@business.uconn.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,047
      • Full-Time MBA: 106
      • Part-Time MBA: 827
      • Executive MBA: 56
      • PhD Program: 58
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Other
      • Master of Science in Financial Risk Management; Master of Science in Business Analytics and Project Management

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $23,958.00
      • Nonresident: $56,178.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $29,500.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $45,700.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 21

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Jan 31, 2012
      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Mar 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: 575

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 237
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 42 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 52 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 1 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 1 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 15
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 9
      • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 39 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 60 %
      • Applications from women received: 38 %
      • Mean base salary forgone: $36,920.00
      • Median base salary forgone: $40,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 31 %
      • International: 50 %
      • Married: 21 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 48 %
      • Europe: 2 %
      • North America: 50 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 4 %
      • Asian American: 15 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 4 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 58 %
      • Chose not to report: 15 %
      • Other: 4 %

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

      • Northeast: 84 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 4 %
      • South: 4 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 4 %
      • West: 4 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 61
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 53

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

      • From: 27
      • To: 84
      • Median age of entering class: 27
      • Mean age of entering class: 28

  • 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: 87 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 77 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $29,323.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $30,874.00
      • 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
      • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $5,000.00
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 92 %
      • 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: $20,368.00

  • GMAT

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

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 610
      • 25th Percentile 580
      • 75th Percentile 640
      • 10th Percentile 530
      • 90th Percentile 690
      • Average GMAT Score 606

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 25th Percentile 580
      • 90th Percentile 700
      • Average GMAT Score 630
      • 50th Percentile (median) 630
      • 10th Percentile 560
      • 75th Percentile 650

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 52
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 25
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 54

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

      • Green Marketing
      • Principles of Global Sustainability
      • Sales Leadership and Selling in Service Industries
      • The Global Economics of Energy
      • Entrepreneurship in Healthcare: Markets & Opportunities

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

      • Individualized Area of Specialization

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

        • MBA/JD (Law)
        • MBA/MD (Medicine)
        • Other
        • MBA/MIM (International Management)
      • 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
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • Health Care Administration
        • Real Estate

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 147

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 56
      • Non-Tenured: 46

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 45

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 24

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 20
      • Non-Tenured: 16

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 53
      • Non-Tenured: 48

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Entrepreneurship
        • Consulting
        • Other
        • Finance

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA
        • Other

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 10 %
      • Experiential Learning: 40 %
      • Lectures: 25 %
      • Team Projects: 25 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • 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
        • Other
      • Summer internship or equivalent; Participation in one or more school-sponsored experiential learning accelerators

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: New server farm, multimedia communications system, teleconferencing for all campuses, transition to complete virtual server u-infrastructure, and virtual desktop implementation.
      • Amount spent: $3,200,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 13,445
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 6
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 3
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 7 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $254.00
      • 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: $29,620,681.00
      • 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://career.uconn.edu/alumni.html
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.alumniconnections.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: 91 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 9 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

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

      • Destination: NYC Connections
      • Month: October 2010
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: Alumni Career & Curriculum Advisory Panel
      • Month: February 2011
      • Amount Paid By School: Full
      • Destination: Careers in Finance: Perspectives from the Hartford CFA Society
      • Month: October 2011
      • Amount Paid By School: Partial
      • Destination: Aetna Trek
      • Month: October 2010
      • Amount Paid By School: None

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 50 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 48 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 2 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 60 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 23 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 13 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 60 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 23 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 13 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • The Hartford 3
      • Pitney Bowes 2
      • HIMCO 2
      • Gartner 2
      • General Electric 2
      • IBM 1
      • United Technologies Corporation 1
      • Prudential 1
      • Moody's 1
      • Aetna 1
      • Ameriprise Financial Services 1
      • United Healthcare 1
      • Fifth Third Bank 1
      • Panera Bread 1
      • Century Investment Group 1
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 7 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $83,727.00
      • Median base salary: $80,000.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $11,667.00
      • Median signing bonus: $10,000.00
      • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $6,900.00
      • Median other guaranteed compensation: $6,900.00

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

      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 45 %
      • General Management: 7 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 14 %
      • Management Information Systems: 5 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 5 %
      • Other: 19 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 7 %
      • Consulting: 5 %
      • Consumer Products: 2 %
      • Financial Services: 31 %
      • Manufacturing: 14 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 0 %
      • Real Estate: 5 %
      • Technology: 12 %
      • Other: 22 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 2 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 98 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 96 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 0 %
      • Midwest: 2 %
      • West: 2 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

    • Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

      • Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation 14
      • The Hartford 5
      • PricewaterhouseCoopers 2
      • Aetna 2
      • SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator 2
      • CVS 2
      • United Technologies Corporation 2
      • Walmart 2
      • Ernst & Young 1
      • Pitney Bowes 1
      • Thompson Reuters 1
      • EMC 1
      • Merrill Lynch 1
      • Prudential 1
      • LEGO 1
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 94 %

    • Weekly internship compensation:

      • Mean: $1,127.00
      • Median: $908.00
      • Average internship length in weeks: 12

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • School Comments: The UConn MBA Program last year completed a major curriculum redesign making it career-centric, allowing our students to develop more individualized plans of study based on their long-term career goals. While students can still pursue traditional concentrations, the new curriculum allows students to develop a more specialized plan of study within these broader disciplines.

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