Grenoble Ecole de Management

PROGRAM BASICS

Full-Time MBA

Grenoble Graduate School of Business

12 rue Pierre Sémard
BP 127
Grenoble ,

Program Web site:

http://www.ggsb.com/mba

  Status:

Other Institution

Program e-mail address:

admissions@ggsb.com

Explain:

Attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

Association of MBAs (AMBA)

EQUIS

Other

Conférence des GE; Grade Master Visa, ISO 9001v2000

SCHOOL BASICS

Graduate business school enrollment:

Total: 2,490
Full-Time MBA: 88
Part-time MBA: 111
PhD Program: 5

Undergraduate business school enrollment:

2,633

Graduate degree programs:

Master of Finance

Master of Human Resources

Master of international Management/Business

Master of Marketing

Master of Technology

Other graduate degree programs:

MSc in Business Development; Manager des Systèmes d'Information; Mastère spécialisé – Management Technologique et Innovation; Mastère spécialisé – SI et Management; Mastère spécialisé – Management de projets décisionnels; Mastère spécialisé – Management de la Fonction Achats; Mastère spécialisé – Entrepreneurs; Mastère spécialisé – Management des Entreprises de Biotechnologies; Mastère spécialisé – Management des Activités de Services

PROGRAM COSTS

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

Resident : $  35,590
Nonresident : $  35,590
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $  55,600
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $  55,600

PROGRAM LENGTH

Full-time program (months):

12

ADMISSIONS

Application Deadlines

Semester: June 2010

  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 Computer Based

TOEFL Internet Based Test

TOEFL Paper-based Test

Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs:

94

Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  GMAT Score:

Considered

  Resume/Work Experience:

Very Important

  Application Essays:

Very Important

  Interviews:

Important

  Recommendations:

Important

  Undergraduate Transcripts:

Considered

APPLICANTS

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:

293

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class:

34  %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class:

67  %

Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years:

2  %

Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted:

1  %

Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle:

0

Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied:

0

  Applicant interviews are:

Required

Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:

70  %

Admitted applicants who were interviewed:

100  %

APPLICANT POOL

International applications received:

97  %

Applications from women received:

58  %

Mean base salary forgone:

$  66,601

Median base salary forgone:

$  66,284

CLASS PROFILE

Full-time students in newest entering class (2009-2010) that are:

Female: 41  %
International: 83  %
Married: 24  %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 7  %
Asia: 9  %
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 11  %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 28  %
Middle East: 5  %
North America: 11  %
Oceania : 2  %
Western Europe: 27  %
Dual citizenship: 16  %

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

N/A

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

Northeast: 38  %
South: 25  %
Midwest : 37  %

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:

73

Median months of work experience of newest entering class:

60

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

        From:  48
        To:  204

Median age of entering class:

29

Mean age of entering class:

29

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:

90  %

Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year:

90  %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year:

$  48,500

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year:

$  39,700

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

A combination of need and merit

Some other criteria

Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:

2

  How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?

Unique scholarship application

Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year:

$  36,000

  Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?

No

GMAT

  Are applicants required to take the GMAT?

No

If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment?

GMAT is no longer compulsory but highly recommended

GMAT scores:

N/A

Middle 80% range GMAT scores:

        From: N/A
        To: N/A

CLASS OFFERINGS

Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class:

30

Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class:

10

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:

9

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2009:

Project Management
Purchasing Management

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:

2008

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Consulting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Marketing

Technology

Other: Project Management; Purchasing Management; Innovation Management; Business Intelligence; Management Consulting

  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:

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

Human Resource Management

International Business

Leadership

Management Information Systems

Manufacturing and Technology Management

Marketing

Technology

Other

FACULTY

Faculty employed by the B-school:

502

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 75
Non-Tenured: 42

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 412

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 35
Non-Tenured: 142

Minority Faculty:

N/A

International Faculty:

Tenured: 32
Non-Tenured: 141

Faculty with PhDs:

Tenured: 64
Non-Tenured: 56

Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:

20  %

Faculty who have owned their own business:

20  %

STUDENT LIFE

Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Business Ethics

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

E-business

Entrepreneurship

Environmental

Finance

Information Technology

Marketing

Media & Entertainment

Nonprofit

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Hispanic Student Organization

International Club

Volunteer

Wine

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

Teaching methods used:

Case Study: 60  %
Distance Learning: 5  %
Experiential Learning: 5  %
Lectures: 15  %
Simulations: 5  %
Team Projects: 10  %
Other: 0  %

Requirements for graduation:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students are required to be fluent in more than one language by graduation

Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties

Other:

Additional graduation requirements:

Participants must pass all modules

TECHNOLOGY

Technology improvements in the last three academic years:

New: Google Apps Education; 14 interactive touch screen applications where students and staff can consult schedules, locate offices, check the school’s news etc.; Interactive white boards; local wireless WIFI network secured with the 802, 11 n norm; free online university (Open Cim); business library, offering numerous services: online documents, remote consultation of documents and databases, access to web-catalogues etc.; mobile carts carrying hundreds of laptops from classroom to classroom Microsoft Live@edu application set up on all computers; over a thousand free computers given to students on the Grande Ecole program; digital informative screens around the school; Share Point student portal; Share Point Faculty portal; Share Point Library portal; graduate network website (http://graduatenetwork.grenoble-em.com); Distance Learning resources; multimedia conference systems to record and film lectures and conferences. Finally, a new building wing to the school was opened in 2008: 9 storey (40 meters) high building which brings the Grenoble Ecole de Management’s surface to a total of 34000 square meters. This new building houses a 479-seat lecture hall, new classrooms, offices, and several conference centres. The new tower can be distinguished by its futuristic yet functional architecture composed of a state of the art combination of glass, concrete and aluminium metal.

Amount spent:

$  23,689,901

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

Living MBA alumni:

688

Active MBA alumni clubs:

14

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:

14

  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://graduatenetwork.grenoble-em.com/

  Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?

Yes

Business school alumni networking site:

http://graduatenetwork.grenoble-em.com/

  Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?

Yes

CAREER SERVICES

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 88  %
Graduates not seeking employment: 12  %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0  %

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

Destination: International Recruitment Day
Month: March, November, October
Destination: Recruitment Forum
Month: March
Destination: Recruitment by Humanitarian Organisations
Month: November
Destination: Internship Recruitment Day
Month: January, February, March
Destination: Purchasing industry recruitment forum
Month: March, October

Primary source of job offer:

School-facilitated activities: 58  %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 33  %
No information provided by graduate: 9  %

Companies that posted full-time job offers for MBAs
on the school's job boards in 2008-09:

197

Job Offers for 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 98  %
Did not report having received a job offer: 2  %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 86  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 2  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 3  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 9  %

Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

Hewlett-Packard
Price Waterhouse Coopers
HSBC
Schneider Electric
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Bloomberg
Techtra Engineering Plc
Gemalto
All Options International
General Electric
Colgate Palmolive
Heron
Nh Hotels
World Software Services
Unilever

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

Mean base salary: $  105,484
Median base salary: $  104,210

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 22  %
Finance/Accounting: 26  %
General Management: 24  %
Human Resources: 2  %
Marketing/Sales: 15  %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 4  %
Operations/Logistics: 7  %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Government: 2  %
Consulting: 17  %
Consumer Products: 21  %
Financial Services: 26  %
Manufacturing: 2  %
Media/Entertainment: 3  %
Non-Profit: 2  %
Petroleum/Energy: 6  %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 11  %
Real Estate: 1  %
Technology: 7  %
Other: 2  %

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

Africa: 6  %
Asia: 3  %
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 5  %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 12  %
Middle East: 3  %
North America: 23  %
Oceana: 1  %
Western Europe: 47  %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Northeast: 97  %
Canada: 3  %

Companies that recruited MBAs for internships on campus in 2008-09:

21

Companies that posted internships for MBAs on school job boards in 2008-09:

158

Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

Amadeus SAS
Hewlett-Packard
Royal Canin
Schneider Electric
Price WaterHouse Coopers
CapGemini

Internships awarded that are paid:

100  %

Weekly internship compensation:

        Mean: N/A
        Median: N/A

Average internship length in weeks:

51

SCHOOL COMMENTS

School Comments:

For the first time this year, full-time MBA students will be going on a Study Tour to Budapest in February 2010. Students will benefit from a strategic and cultural insight into business in Central Europe. The students will: Learn more about the transition from socialist to market economy and the impact of the integration to the European Union; Observe how companies operate in a different business environment; and Discover the Hungarian culture. During this week they will have the possibility to: Visit international and Hungarian companies covering different industries; Meet and interact with local executives and expatriates; Attend conferences at CEU University, our partner school in Hungary and Discover Budapest and enjoy the charms of this city. The full-time MBA was ranked 87th in the world, 25th in Europe and 3rd in France by the Financial Times in January 2009. In 2008, GGSB open its full-time MBA in London, with the same faculty and course content as on the Grenoble site. The FT program is therefore delivered in both Grenoble and London. The choice of electives has also now risen to 9, with Finance, Management Consulting; Global Management; Innovation Management; International Marketing; Business Intelligence; Entrepreneurship, Small and Family Business; Project Management and Purchasing Management. The Personal Development Week for individual “soft” skills in February is now well-established. We have also added a full-day teambuilding and leadership day in the French mountains. In the program, we balance theory and applied learning, the academic and the operational. For participants this means a practical hands-on approach, constantly focused on the real world. The program develops hard analytical skills and soft interpersonal skills, to build competence across the full range of managerial activity. The program is triple-accredited: AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA. The faculty have both academic expertise and a wide range of experience in corporate activity. They are from a range of different countries and so they expose the MBA participants to an impressive variety of international management cultures. The program content is composed of key concepts and carefully-selected business cases to show how concepts and knowledge are applied in the real world. The management project - in phase two of the program - is the most effective way of applying the theory learnt in the course to live business issues. This extended problem-solving project often deals with live challenges faced in the participant's company. We have a number of sites abroad where our part-time MBA program is offered. Please consult our web site for more information: http://www.ggsb.com More about GGSB: GGSB is the international school of Grenoble Ecole de Management, which was established in 1984 by Grenoble’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This year the graduate school counts 88 nationalities. Grenoble Ecole de Management is one of only a few business schools worldwide to hold the triple accreditation crown. Based in Grenoble, the French capital of the Alps and of innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management has developed a unique expertise in Technology Management and Innovation. With this specificity, the school has become a major player in academic research, thanks to its research poles and institutes. Because of its key role not only in companies' development but for society at large, Management, Technology and Innovation is at the heart of Grenoble Ecole de Management's degree programs, executive education and applied research programs. With one goal: allowing tomorrow's managers to master the challenges of Management of Technology to better integrate it into business' strategic objectives and create value through technology.