Boston College

PROGRAM BASICS

• • Carroll School of Management
  • Part-Time MBA Program
  • Fulton Hall
  • 140 Commonwealth Avenue
  • Chestnut Hill, 02467, Massachusetts
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.bc.edu/schools/csom/graduate/mba.html
  • E-mail: bcmba@bc.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 94 %
  • Average months to complete program: 36
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 60
  • Does the school have a separate full-time MBA program? Yes
  • If so, can part-time students switch to the full-time program? No

• Tuition and Fees: (Based on six credits in the fall and six credits in the spring)

  • Resident: $15,840.00
  • Non-Resident: $15,840.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $1,320.00
  • Non-resident $1,320.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 836
  • Full-Time MBA: 200
  • Part-Time MBA: 435
  • PhD Program: 38
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,885
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 178
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 81 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 63 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 22
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 4
  • Applicant interviews are: Not offered

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 75th Percentile 640
  • 50th Percentile (median) 590
  • 90th Percentile 690
  • 10th Percentile 480
  • Average GMAT Score 586
  • 25th Percentile 548

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 75th Percentile 640
  • 25th Percentile 550
  • 50th Percentile (median) 590
  • 10th Percentile 500
  • 90th Percentile 690
  • Average GMAT Score 593
• • Is proficiency in English required? Yes
  • Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required? Yes

• Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

  • • Other
    • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test

• Other additional English language proficiency tests accepted

  • PTE (Pearson Test of English)
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL: 600

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  • GMAT Score: Very Important
  • Application Essays: Important
  • Interviews Not Considered
  • Recommendations: Important
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 37 %
  • International students: 2 %

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

  • African American: 2 %
  • Asian American: 3 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 7 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 1 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 65 %
  • Chose not to report: 22 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 54
  • Median: 49
  • From: 12
  • To: 90

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • Mean: $67,715.00
  • Median: $59,750.00

• Middle 80% range:

  • From: $41,440.00
  • To: $100,000.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 6 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 40 %
  • General Management: 16 %
  • Human Resources: 4 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 14 %
  • Management Information Systems: 4 %
  • Operations/Production: 12 %
  • Other: 4 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 7 %
  • Consumer Products: 7 %
  • Financial Services: 31 %
  • Government: 6 %
  • Manufacturing: 8 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
  • Non-Profit: 8 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 6 %
  • Real Estate: 4 %
  • Technology: 10 %
  • Other: 9 %

• Organizations that send the most participants to the part-time MBA program:

  • Liberty Mutual 4
  • Boston College 4
  • Fidelity Investments 3
  • EMC 3
  • Raytheon 3
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 28
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 26

FINANCIAL AID

• • Part-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
  • Students receiving some form of financial aid in 2011-12: 31 %
• • On what basis are scholarships awarded? Other
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 0
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Part of the admissions application
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? Only to domestic students
  • Mean outstanding debt at graduation: $56,086.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 208

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 59
  • Non-Tenured: 43

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 1
  • Non-Tenured: 105

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 22
  • Non-Tenured: 34

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 9
  • Non-Tenured: 13

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 7
  • Non-Tenured: 13

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 59
  • Non-Tenured: 56

STUDENT LIFE

• Active MBA specialization clubs open to part-time students:

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Nonprofit
    • Other
    • High Tech
    • VC/ Private Equity
    • Environmental
    • Consulting
    • Information Technology
    • Investment Banking

• Active MBA networking clubs open to part-time students:

  • • International Club
    • Black MBA Association
    • Hispanic Student Organization
    • Volunteer
    • Women in MBA
    • Other
    • Partners/Family
    • Wine
• • Do part-time MBA students have their own area/center on campus? No
  • Do part-time MBA students have break-out rooms? Yes

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching Methods:

  • Case Study: 40 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 10 %
  • Lectures: 25 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 8
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 148
  • Average core class size: 30
  • Average elective class size: 34
  • Electives available: 114

• Recently added electives:

  • Manager's Laboratory: Design Thinking
  • Managing in a Changing World
• • Last curriculum revision: 2006

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • General Management
    • Marketing
    • Other
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Leadership
    • Operations Management
    • Organizational Behavior
    • Strategy
    • International Business
    • Statistics and Operations Research

• Additional concentrations offered:

  • Competitive Service Delivery
  • Marketing Informatics
  • Financial Reporting and Controls
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Finance
    • Leadership
    • Accounting
    • General Management
    • Marketing

• Graduation requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
    • Other: Describe in next screen
    • Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties
• • Other graduation requirements: 20 hours of comunity service
• • Credits required to graduate: 56

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 7,449
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 16 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $5,429.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $100.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • 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.bc.edu/alumni/home.html
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

CAREER SERVICES

• • Do part-time MBAs have access to career development office?
    • Yes
  • If yes, at what point in the degree process are part-time MBA students able to use the service?
    • At any time
  • Are part-time MBAs permitted to interview for full-time jobs? Yes
  • Are part-time students included in resume drops? Yes

• • -The university and the faculty were superb and I hope to always be connected in various ways to the university. The social life for part time students could be improved but (as a married student) the academics are far more important to me. I would give my BC experience overall and "A".
    
    -There should be more attention given to the part-timers, sometimes we felt 'in the shadows' of the full timers.
    
    -BC provided a very good mixture of part time and full time students in classes along with very experienced teachers. Students that worked harder got more out of the classes.
    
    -BC should make more effort to make opportunities available with Part-Time students in mind. For example, many speakers or career programs are at hours that are difficult for Part-Time students to attend. The school does go to lengths to schedule events for 5pm however many people work until after 5pm and even if not, they would still have to leave work early to make a 5pm event.
    
    -Have loved my experience at BC. The academics have been challenging and the professors have been exceptional in their approachability and availability. The majority of professors are quick to answer questions via email even late at night, which has been fantastic. Have been impressed with the caliber of professors as well.
    
    -Although there is always room for improvement, the program was worth every minute and dollar that I invested.
    
    -I was very satisfied with the Part-Time MBA program at Boston College. I would recommend it to friends; but I would caution them that BC is strong in certain areas - Finance and Accounting, for example - and that if they are more interested in things like Public Service, Non-Profit or Government work, there may be other programs that better suit their needs.
    
    -The career services center is lacking quality professionals who understand the investment management industry. I was unable to get specific, detailed advice or quality resume and cover letter critiques. My career advisor seemed to be burden with my requests and was unable to assist me.
    
    -The Carroll School combines a beautiful campus, top professors in reasonable class size settings, and a very strong worldwide alumni network. I really enjoyed my experience at BC and would highly recommend it.
    
    -I think the career strategies office should be more engaged with part-time students. They seem to think that part-timers are completely happy with their jobs, which isn't the case.
    
    -Very happy with my decision to attend. Will help me build on a liberal arts degree and make me much more flexible with my career path.
    
    -Boston College is expensive and I don’t know if the value is there looking back in hindsight. The quality of teaching varies greatly professor to professor. I would have thought that the teaching would be of high quality across the board based on the reputation and fees of BC. This was not the case.
    
    -To me, it was important to have professors who had valuable and current working experiences, and possibly also currently consulting other companies. BC had many of those, although in my opinion, not enough.
    
    -The course curriculum was fantastic and immediately applicable to my current working position. The professors were top notch and made the effort to ensure each student was given the appropriate level of education. Boston College has a terrific reputation as one of the best MBA programs in the country and the school certainly lived up to those expectations in my experience.
    
    -Boston College was highly rated for its networking opportunities and quality of education. This was the reason I initially chose the school. I attended classes in a few schools offering part-time programs in Boston area to identify the programs I would like to apply for and chose Boston College due to smaller class size, good mix of part-time and full-time students in the classroom, engagement of both students and professors. As I started my education I realized how much more the school offered: the school has many student activities with opportunities to engage for both part-time and full-time students, a lot of effort is put into connecting students from part-time and full-time programs; students are well-informed about conferences in other schools and are encouraged to attend, career development services are informing students of new positions.