University of Oxford

Program Basics

• • One year full time MBA
  • Saïd Business School
  • Park End Street
  • Oxford, OX1 1HP
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain
  • Program Web site: http://www.sbs.oxford.edu/mba
  • Status: Public
  • Program e-mail address: mba-enquiries@sbs.ox.ac.uk
  • Graduate business school is accredited by:
    • Association of MBAs (AMBA)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 459
  • Full-Time MBA: 248
  • Executive MBA: 52
  • PhD Program: 9
• • Other graduate degree programs:
    • Other
  • MSc in Financial Economics; MSc in Major Programme Management; MSc in Law and Finance

PROGRAM COSTS

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

  • Resident: $63,898.00
  • Nonresident: $63,898.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $84,051.00
  • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $84,051.00

PROGRAM LENGTH

• • Full-time program (months): 12

ADMISSIONS

• Application Deadlines

  • Semester: Fall 2011
  • Deadline: Oct 14, 2011
  • Semester: Winter 2012
  • Deadline: Jan 20, 2012
  • Semester: Spring 2012
  • Deadline: Apr 27, 2012
• • 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?

  • • IELTS
    • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs: 630

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

APPLICANTS

• • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only

CLASS PROFILE

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

  • Female: 26 %
  • International: 93 %
  • Married: 23 %

• Students from following regions:

  • Africa: 4 %
  • Asia: 37 %
  • Europe: 18 %
  • North America: 34 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 4 %
  • Oceania: 4 %
  • Dual citizenship: 11 %
• • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 68
  • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 60

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

  • From: 36
  • To: 108
• • Median age of entering class: 28
  • Mean age of entering class: 29

FINANCIAL AID

• • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
    • a combination of need and merit
    • academic merit
    • financial need
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? As part of the admissions application
  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality? No

GMAT

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool):

  • 25th Percentile 640
  • 10th Percentile 590
  • 75th Percentile 710
  • Average GMAT Score 680
  • 50th Percentile (median) 680
  • 90th Percentile 740

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

  • 25th Percentile 660
  • 10th Percentile 640
  • 90th Percentile 740
  • 75th Percentile 720
  • Average GMAT Score 690
  • 50th Percentile (median) 695

CLASS OFFERINGS

• • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 80
  • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 50
  • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 35

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

  • Rethinking Business
  • Valuing Performance and Impact
  • Fixed Income & Derivatives
  • The New Psychology of Marketing
  • Behavioural Finance
• • 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
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Other
    • Strategy

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 74

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 53
  • Non-Tenured: 8

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 16

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 7
  • Non-Tenured: 5

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 30
  • Non-Tenured: 10

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 53
  • Non-Tenured: 18

STUDENT LIFE

• Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Consulting
    • Finance
    • Nonprofit
    • VC/ Private Equity
    • Investment Banking
    • Media & Entertainment

• Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

  • • Partners/Family
    • Women in MBA
    • Other
    • Volunteer

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching methods used:

  • Case Study: 25 %
  • Lectures: 40 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 25 %

• Requirements for graduation:

  • • Students must write a complete business plan
    • 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: A new website was launched in 2009. New blog platforms. CareerConnect platform (job database available for students). Enhanced AV provision. Email and calendar system.
  • Amount spent: $118,515.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 2,321
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 26
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 9
  • 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.alumni.ox.ac.uk/
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://www.oba.co.uk/
  • 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: 61 %
  • Graduates not seeking employment: 26 %
  • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 13 %

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

  • Destination: Africa
  • Month: April
  • Amount Paid By School: None
  • Destination: Brazil
  • Month: August
  • Amount Paid By School: None
  • Destination: China, Hong Kong, Shanghai
  • Month: April
  • Amount Paid By School: None
  • Destination: Geneva
  • Month: June
  • Amount Paid By School: None
  • Destination: Germany
  • Month: April
  • Amount Paid By School: None

• Primary source of job offer:

  • School-facilitated activities: 40 %
  • Graduate-facilitated activities: 24 %
  • No information provided by graduate: 36 %

• Job Offers for 2011 graduates

  • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 21 %
  • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 64 %
  • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
  • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 11 %

• Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

  • Deloitte 6
  • Ernst and Young 6
  • Boston Consulting Group 4
  • Johnson and Johnson 3
  • Accenture 2
  • Barclays Group 2
  • CLSA 2
  • FSA 2
  • Google 2
  • Li & Fung 2
  • Oliver Wyman 2
  • Second Market 2
  • Walmart 2

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

  • Mean base salary: $98,112.00
  • Median base salary: $93,738.00

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

  • Consulting: 31 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 28 %
  • General Management: 10 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 6 %
  • Operations/Logistics: 3 %
  • Other: 22 %

• Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 31 %
  • Consumer Products: 7 %
  • Financial Services: 34 %
  • Manufacturing: 6 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 2 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 6 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Technology: 10 %

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

  • Africa: 1 %
  • Asia: 18 %
  • Europe: 50 %
  • North America: 26 %
  • Oceania: 4 %
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: 1 %
• • Internships awarded that are paid: 68 %
• • Average internship length in weeks: 6-8

SCHOOL COMMENTS

• • School Comments: Conversion rates applied at the time of survey completion using XE - Universal Currency Converter.

• • -The Oxford Said Business School benefits from being a young program situated in an ancient university. Its students, alumni and faculty have the enthusiasm of start-up employees (and commitment to innovation and improvement). And the University provides amazing intellectual stimulation, personal relationship building and professional networking opportunities that take us out of the MBA 'bubble' and keep us grounded.
    
    -The diversity of classmates at SBS is unparalleled, both in terms of nationality and professional background. Learning from all those different perspectives is enormously valuable, particularly when it comes to innovation in business.
    
    -In my opinion, the Oxford experience is something that you can't find anywhere else. I chose Oxford, because it is a young entrepreneurial school, situated in a centuries old educational environment with great prestige. I would therefore recommend this school to anybody who's attracted to those things because:
    - The course itself is great: the teaching is of high quality (I actually learned more then I expected on beforehand), the facilities are really good, there's a good balance between required course and electives (a lot of flexibility) and that all in one year. A real challenge.
    - On top of that comes the experience of being a student in Oxford, being member of centuries old colleges, enjoying the dinners, sports, gala's, speeches, seminars and all other events within the school and the wider university.
    -As the course is really challenging, but there are so many other things you would like to do as well, the year becomes very hectic, which makes time management very important. Something that I really think is a really good aspect of an MBA.
    -The total experience (both thought content/skills and wider considerations) is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
    
    -I would encourage them to enroll with the understanding that a one-year program needs to be taught intensively, and that therefore their goals for enrolling need to be very clear. They also need to understand that a one-year program provides less time for job searching, networking, and developing new skill sets as compared to a two-year program that I perceive to be taught in a more relaxed/spread-out manner. However, I would impress on them that the value proposition in terms of cost and length of time out of the workforce presented by the Oxford MBA remains very compelling.
    
    -Most students should choose a 2-year program unless they have already set in motion what they will do after a 1-year program and have existing job prospects upon completion. I am about to graduate in a few months and am not hopeful I will be able to do the double jump (industry, position) I had hoped for. In addition, careers support is still embryonic at Oxford, and not well connected to the US market, where I intend to return. I was warned by a sibling at Harvard, but I didn't listen.
    
    - New world-regarded MBA in an 800 year old university, makes Oxford as a whole a very special place
    - 1 year program, doesn't keep you out of the work force for 2 years, i.e. low opportunity cost
    - Unlike US international schools, this school is definitely international. 48 countries represented with Brits only making 6 percent, in total.
    - Small town feel, a stone's throw from London. Creates a tight community amongst the MBAs.
    
    -Coming to Oxford was the best decision I could have made. I'm a native New Yorker, but when my old boss said that the future of banking was "Mumbai, Dubai, Shanghai, or say good-bye" I knew that it would be increasingly relevant to have an international MBA along with the global network of friends and colleagues that goes along with that. This point cannot be understated.