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

Sabanci University

  • Program Basics

      • Sabanci MBA
      • Sabanci School of Management
      • Sabanci School of Management
      • Orhanli, Tuzla
      • Istanbul, 34956
      • Turkey
      • Program Web site: http://som.sabanciuniv.edu/mba
      • Status: Private
      • Program e-mail address: mba@sabanciuniv.edu
      • Graduate business school is accredited by:
        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 160
      • Full-Time MBA: 49
      • Executive MBA: 79
      • PhD Program: 20
      • Other graduate degree programs:
        • Master of Finance

  • PROGRAM COSTS

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

      • Resident: $33,647.00
      • Nonresident: $33,647.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Resident): $24,825.00
      • Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $24,825.00

  • PROGRAM LENGTH

      • Full-time program (months): 21

  • ADMISSIONS

    • Application Deadlines

      • Semester: Fall 2012
      • Deadline: Jun 30, 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: 560

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • APPLICANTS

      • Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 84
      • Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 45 %
      • Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 27 %
      • 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: Required
      • Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed: 47 %
      • Admitted applicants who were interviewed: 57 %

  • APPLICANT POOL

      • International applications received: 20 %
      • Applications from women received: 49 %

  • CLASS PROFILE

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

      • Female: 57 %
      • International: 17 %

    • Students from following regions:

      • Asia: 4 %
      • Europe: 9 %
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 4 %
      • Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 9
      • Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 6

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

      • From: 0
      • To: 17
      • Median age of entering class: 23
      • Mean age of entering class: 23

  • FINANCIAL AID

      • Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
      • Full-time MBAs who applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 86 %
      • Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid in the current academic year: 86 %
      • Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $13,085.00
      • Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: $12,505.00
      • On what basis are scholarships awarded?
        • some other criteria
        • academic 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: $16,431.00
      • Percentage of first-year students receiving financial aid who receive at least the same amount in their second year of study: 100 %

  • GMAT

      • Are applicants required to take the GMAT? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? No
      • If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment? GMAT test is required

    • GMAT score distribution (incoming class):

      • 50th Percentile (median) 620
      • 25th Percentile 570
      • Average GMAT Score 617
      • 10th Percentile 552
      • 75th Percentile 645
      • 90th Percentile 686

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class: 25
      • Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class: 14
      • Elective courses available to full-time MBA students: 22

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

      • Strategic Innovation

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

        • Finance
        • General Management
        • Marketing

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

        • MBA/ME (Engineering)
        • MBA/MSM (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
        • Operations Management
        • Organizational Behavior

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 51

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Non-Tenured: 27

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Non-Tenured: 24

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Non-Tenured: 21

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Non-Tenured: 0

    • International Faculty:

      • Non-Tenured: 3

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Non-Tenured: 41

  • STUDENT LIFE

    • Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

        • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
        • Finance
        • Marketing

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching methods used:

      • Case Study: 20 %
      • Experiential Learning: 5 %
      • Lectures: 45 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 25 %

    • 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
        • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
        • Other
      • internship and/or international exchange program

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Amount spent: $300,244.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 249
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
      • 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://alumni.sabanciuniv.edu/en
      • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
      • 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: 4 %
      • Graduates not seeking employment: 96 %
      • Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0 %

    • Primary source of job offer:

      • School-facilitated activities: 18 %
      • Graduate-facilitated activities: 82 %
      • No information provided by graduate: 0 %

    • Job Offers for 2011 graduates

      • Received first job offer by graduation: 57 %
      • Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 39 %
      • Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
      • Did not report having received a job offer: 0 %
      • Accepted first job offer by graduation: 57 %
      • Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 39 %
      • Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
      • Did not report having accepted a job offer: 0 %

    • Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

      • Ata Investment 4
      • Deloitte 1
      • KPMG 1
      • Quattro 1
      • Turkcell 1
      • Yapi Kredi Bank 1
      • Avea 1
      • Baumax 1
      • Credit Agricole 1
      • Credit Suisse 1
      • Dogus Group 1
      • Garanti Bank 1
      • Google 1
      • Bayer 1
      • ING 1

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

      • Consulting: 10 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 24 %
      • General Management: 10 %
      • Human Resources: 0 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 13 %
      • Management Information Systems: 0 %
      • Operations/Logistics: 5 %
      • Other: 38 %

    • Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

      • Government: 0 %
      • Consulting: 10 %
      • Consumer Products: 5 %
      • Financial Services: 24 %
      • Manufacturing: 3 %
      • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
      • Non-Profit: 0 %
      • Petroleum/Energy: 0 %
      • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
      • Real Estate: 0 %
      • Technology: 8 %
      • Other: 45 %

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

      • Europe: 100 %

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

      • Efes Pilsen 3
      • Sabanci Holding 2
      • Shell 1
      • Akbank 1
      • Kimberley Clark 1
      • Glaxo Smith Kline 1
      • Mudo 1
      • Fujitsu Siemens 1
      • Unilever 1
      • Anadolu Sigorta 1
      • Coca Cola 1
      • Average internship length in weeks: 4-6

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