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

HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management

  • Program Basics

      • HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management
      • HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management
      • Jahnallee 59
      • Leipzig, 04109
      • Germany
      • Program Web site: http://www.hhl.de/mba
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: margarita.setska@hhl.de
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Other

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 391
      • Full-Time MBA: 61
      • Part-Time MBA: 81
      • PhD Program: 103
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Other
      • Master Program in Management (M.Sc.)

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $38,300.00
      • Nonresident: $38,300.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $10,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $10,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 18

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2011
      • Deadline: 30.06.2012 (EU)
      • Deadline: 01.04.2012 (Non-EU)
      • 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: 500

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 106
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 57 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 35 %
      • Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 5 %
      • Percentage of this year's reapplicants accepted: 5 %
      • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 4
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 80 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 80 %
      • Applications from women received: 30 %
      • Mean base salary forgone: $53,000.00
      • Median base salary forgone: $53,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • Full-time students in newest entering class (2011-2012) that are:

      • Female: 24 %
      • International: 62 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 29 %
      • Europe: 47 %
      • North America: 10 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 14 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • Native American: 100 %

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

      • South: 50 %
      • Midwest: 50 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 54
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 60

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

      • From: 41
      • To: 120
      • Median age of entering class: 29
      • Mean age of entering class: 27

  • 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: 27 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 24 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $10,000.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $8,300.00
      • 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: $6,800.00
      • 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: $45,000.00

  • 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? GRE score only rarely

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 25th Percentile 562
      • 10th Percentile 510
      • 75th Percentile 667
      • Average GMAT Score 620
      • 50th Percentile (median) 620
      • 90th Percentile 745

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 580
      • 25th Percentile 560
      • 75th Percentile 650
      • 90th Percentile 698
      • Average GMAT Score 603
      • 10th Percentile 512

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 35
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 30
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 19

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

      • Soft Skills Seminar

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

        • Finance
        • Entrepreneurship
        • General Management
        • Leadership
        • Operations Management
        • Strategy
        • Corporate Social Responsibility
        • International Business
      • 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:

        • Entrepreneurship
        • Leadership

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 43

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 27

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 2
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 1
      • Non-Tenured: 11

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 12
      • Non-Tenured: 26

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Other
        • Environmental

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 25 %
      • Distance Learning: 0 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • Simulations: 15 %
      • Team Projects: 20 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • 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
      • Master Thesis, Project Work

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Consolidation of servers / Integrated campus management system (campus software) / Improvement of the technical conditions in the classrooms (W-LAN, projection technics, plugsockets)
      • Amount spent: $422,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 473
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 11
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 6
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • 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.hhl-alumni.de
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

  • CAREER SERVICES

      • Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 78 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 9 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 13 %

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

      • Destination: MBA Career Fair, Berlin
      • Month: April
      • Amount Paid By School: Full

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 33 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 67 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 50 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 39 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 11 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 0 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 50 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 39 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 11 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 0 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Accenture 2
      • Siemens AG 2
      • Triumph CCC 2
      • Deutsche Bank 2
      • Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 7 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $98,135.00
      • Median base salary: $96,080.00
      • Mean signing bonus: $8,817.00
      • Median signing bonus: $8,817.00

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

      • Consulting: 28 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 11 %
      • General Management: 11 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 28 %
      • Management Information Systems: 0 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 17 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 23 %
      • Consumer Products: 13 %
      • Financial Services: 10 %
      • Manufacturing: 0 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 5 %
      • Non-Profit: 3 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 8 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 3 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 8 %
      • Other: 28 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 0 %
      • Europe: 94 %
      • North America: 3 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 3 %

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

      • DHL 2
      • Henkel 2
      • Internships awarded that are paid: 100 %
      • Average internship length in weeks: 20

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