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

University of Houston

Bauer College of Business

  • Program Basics

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,525
      • Full-Time MBA: 167
      • Part-Time MBA: 714
      • Executive MBA: 148
      • PhD Program: 69
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Master of Finance

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $31,500.00
      • Nonresident: $47,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 21

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • 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?

        • TOEFL Internet Based Test
        • TOEFL Paper-based Test
      • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 603

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

      • GMAT Score: Very Important
      • Resume/Work Experience: Important
      • Application Essays: Important
      • Interviews: Not Considered
      • Recommendations: Very Important
      • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 222
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 74 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 50 %
      • 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: 0
      • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
      • Applicant interviews are: Not required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 0 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 0 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 35 %
      • Applications from women received: 41 %
      • Mean base salary forgone: $47,485.00
      • Median base salary forgone: $43,300.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 34 %
      • International: 31 %
      • Married: 13 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 1 %
      • Asia: 23 %
      • Europe: 2 %
      • North America: 69 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 5 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Dual citizenship: 0 %

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

      • African American: 11 %
      • Asian American: 19 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 10 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 60 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 4 %
      • Southwest: 90 %
      • Midwest: 2 %
      • West: 4 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 32
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 24

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

      • From: 0
      • To: 72
      • Median age of entering class: 26
      • Mean age of entering class: 27

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 78 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $20,666.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $20,500.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • a combination of need and merit
      • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Unique scholarship application
      • Mean scholarship awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year: $2,926.00
      • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? Only to domestic students
      • Mean outstanding debt among the most recent graduates from the full-time MBA program: $19,244.00

  • GMAT

      • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes

    • GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

      • 75th Percentile 610
      • 50th Percentile (median) 560
      • 25th Percentile 500
      • 90th Percentile 640
      • Average GMAT Score 550
      • 10th Percentile 430

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • Average GMAT Score 582
      • 50th Percentile (median) 580
      • 75th Percentile 620
      • 25th Percentile 540
      • 10th Percentile 510
      • 90th Percentile 650

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 41
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 22
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 94

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

      • ACCT 7397 Public Sector Financial Management
      • FINA 7297 Real Estate Studies & Projects
      • FINA 7397 Future of Value Creation – Oil & Gas
      • FINA 7497 Essentials of Real Estate
      • GENB 7397 Developing a Global Service Business

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

        • MBA/JD (Law)
        • 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
        • General Management
        • Marketing
        • Management Information Systems
        • Accounting

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 178

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 65
      • Non-Tenured: 80

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 14
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 16
      • Non-Tenured: 26

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 12
      • Non-Tenured: 21

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 65
      • Non-Tenured: 64

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Consulting
        • Other
        • Finance

    • Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Women in MBA
        • Other

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 10 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 20 %
      • Lectures: 20 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 35 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Installation of a video wall with stock ticker, upgraded video conferencing, replaced printers in the student labs, wireless printing solution for students, added power outlets to student seating areas in classrooms, intranet portal dedicated solely for the use of student organizations, SEI-ISBM Educational Resource Portal, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution to track time and billing for class projects, implemented a Citrix based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in EILab
      • Amount spent: $2,160,655.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 11,442
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 2
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
      • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3 %
      • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $284.00
      • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $64,500,000.00
      • 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://www.houstonalumni.com/
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.bauer.uh.edu/alumni/
      • 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: 63 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 15 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 22 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 63 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 37 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 53 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 34 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 13 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 55 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 29 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 16 %

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

      • Mean base salary: $58,830.00
      • Median base salary: $58,000.00

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

      • Consulting: 15 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 13 %
      • General Management: 3 %
      • Human Resources: 3 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 28 %
      • Management Information Systems: 3 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 22 %
      • Other: 13 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 16 %
      • Consumer Products: 0 %
      • Financial Services: 3 %
      • Manufacturing: 0 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 3 %
      • Non-Profit: 3 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 38 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 0 %
      • Real Estate: 3 %
      • Technology: 9 %
      • Other: 25 %

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

      • Africa: 0 %
      • Asia: 0 %
      • Europe: 0 %
      • North America: 100 %
      • Oceania: 0 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 0 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
      • South: 0 %
      • Southwest: 100 %
      • Midwest: 0 %
      • West: 0 %
      • Possessions and territories: 0 %

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