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

University of Memphis

  • Program Basics

      • International MBA, Customer-Driven MBA
      • Fogelman College of Business & Economics
      • 3675 Central Avenue
      • Memphis, 38152, Tennessee
      • United States
      • Program Web site: http://www.memphis.edu/fcbe
      • Status: Public
      • Program e-mail address: fcbegp@memphis.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 518
      • Full-Time MBA: 44
      • Part-Time MBA: 184
      • Executive MBA: 33
      • PhD Program: 81
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Accounting
        • Master of Electronic Commerce/Information Systems
        • Master of Finance
        • Other
      • Master of Arts in Economics, Master of Science in Business Administration in Real Estate

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $13,000.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $13,000.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 21

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Apr 1, 2011
      • Does the program have rolling admissions? No
      • 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: 550

    • 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: 369
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 5 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 5 %
      • Applicant interviews are: Required
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 100 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 48 %
      • International: 32 %
      • Married: 24 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Africa: 4 %
      • Asia: 24 %
      • Europe: 4 %
      • North America: 68 %

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

      • African American: 18 %
      • Asian American: 6 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
      • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
      • Native American: 0 %
      • White (Non-Hispanic): 76 %
      • Chose not to report: 0 %
      • Other: 0 %

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

      • Northeast: 12 %
      • Mid-Atlantic: 6 %
      • South: 70 %
      • Southwest: 6 %
      • Midwest: 6 %
      • Median age of entering class: 25
      • Mean age of entering class: 28

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university

  • GMAT

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

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 560
      • 25th Percentile 525
      • 75th Percentile 638
      • 90th Percentile 644
      • Average GMAT Score 568
      • 10th Percentile 491

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 23
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 12

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

        • Marketing
        • Economics
        • International Business
      • Biomedical 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:

        • Entrepreneurship
        • Marketing
        • Other
        • International Business

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 135

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 62
      • Non-Tenured: 41

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 32

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 23

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 16
      • Non-Tenured: 12

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 2

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 62
      • Non-Tenured: 30

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 25 %
      • Lectures: 45 %
      • Team Projects: 30 %

    • Requirements for graduation:

        • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Other
      • Completion of Capstone course, candidacy form, and Letter of Intent

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Mostly software: application virtualization, email migration, and web-content management migration

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 4,813
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business School endowment: $648,794.00
      • 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.memphis.edu/alumni/index.php
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
      • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.memphis.edu/alumni/clubs/business_chapter.php
      • Does the B-SCHOOL offer career services for alumni? No
      • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

  • SCHOOL COMMENTS

      • School Comments: Information provided for the full-time MBA program contains data sets from both the International MBA and Customer-Driven MBA (two separate degree programs offered through the University of Memphis' Fogelman College of Business & Economics).

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