PROGRAM BASICS

• • School of Management
  • UB Professional MBA Program
  • 108 Jacobs Management Center
  • NY
  • Buffalo, 14260, New York
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://mgt.buffalo.edu/programs/pmba
  • E-mail: mgt-pmba@buffalo.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 89 %
  • Average months to complete program: 33
  • 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? Yes

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

  • Resident: $8,700.00
  • Non-Resident: $8,700.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $725.00
  • Non-resident $725.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 794
  • Full-Time MBA: 183
  • Part-Time MBA: 198
  • Executive MBA: 102
  • PhD Program: 67
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,678
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Other
  • Other graduate degree programs: MS Supply Chains and Operations Management;MS Management Information Systems

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 79
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 77 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 88 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: By invitation only

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 90th Percentile 640
  • 25th Percentile 510
  • 10th Percentile 480
  • 75th Percentile 610
  • 50th Percentile (median) 560
  • Average GMAT Score 560

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 560
  • 25th Percentile 510
  • 75th Percentile 620
  • 10th Percentile 480
  • Average GMAT Score 561
  • 90th Percentile 643
• • 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?

  • • IELTS
    • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL: 550

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 41 %
  • International students: 7 %

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

  • African American: 2 %
  • Asian American: 4 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 3 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 78 %
  • Chose not to report: 13 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 68
  • Median: 50
  • One year or less: 0 %

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 2 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 12 %
  • General Management: 18 %
  • Human Resources: 1 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 13 %
  • Management Information Systems: 9 %
  • Operations/Production: 35 %
  • Other: 10 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 2 %
  • Consumer Products: 24 %
  • Financial Services: 26 %
  • Government: 1 %
  • Manufacturing: 13 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 3 %
  • Non-Profit: 0 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 3 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 12 %
  • Real Estate: 0 %
  • Technology: 6 %
  • Other: 10 %

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

  • M&T Bank 34
  • HSBC Bank 22
  • Moog 15
  • National Fuel 9
  • Praxair 7
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 29
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 27

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 119

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 32
  • Non-Tenured: 36

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 51

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 5
  • Non-Tenured: 29

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 8
  • Non-Tenured: 8

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 9
  • Non-Tenured: 14

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 32
  • Non-Tenured: 33
• • Faculty on company boards: 7

STUDENT LIFE

• • 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: 20 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 5 %
  • Lectures: 50 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 15 %
  • Other: 5 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 10
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 21
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 6
  • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 48 %
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 62 %
  • Average core class size: 62
  • Average elective class size: 35
  • Electives available: 12

• Recently added electives:

  • Managing Cultural Changes of Global Businesses
  • Leadership Development
• • Last curriculum revision: 1998
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • General Management

• Graduation requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
• • Credits required to graduate: 48

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Computer lab upgraded with 20 new computers. New electronic messaging system installed, section of each screen displays MSNBC. Ceiling projectors in 4 classrooms, computers in 9 classroom podiums upgraded. New tech classroom equipped for full web conferencing to support the Global Services and Supply Management concentration, stations for 40 students. Desktop video conferencing promotes collaboration, remote teamwork. New computers installed in Accounting Resource Lab.
  • Amount spent: $280,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 8,532
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 8 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $500.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $40.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $15,225,927.00
  • 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: https://www.ubconnect.org/olc/pub/BUF/homepage.cgi
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? Yes
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • Business school alumni networking site: http://mgt.buffalo.edu/alumni/opportunities
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? Yes

CAREER SERVICES

• • Do part-time MBAs have access to career development office?
    • Only if they do not receive funding from their employer
  • 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? No

• • -I believe it's a great value and a high quality education with high networking potential in upstate New York and the northeast
    
    -I think a requirement should be to spend some time at a business or speaking with managers to try to get more information on the real world application for the degree.
    
    -SUNY at Buffalo (UB) has an outstanding MBA program that is very competitive. The professors were constantly pushing students not to learn theory and case studies but to use each as a tool to learning to be leaders. During the three years, I was constantly challenged by the workload, subject matter being taught and students. After three years, I've gained a level of knowledge and a higher level of confidence that will allow me to be successful at any opportunity I choose to pursue. I would definitely refer others to this program.
    -I feel that, with so many people in the program having their way paid, there was a lack of seriousness for some people. Some seemed like they were just "going through the motions". This was discouraging, and it seemed like a more rigorous program could have solved this problem. In addition, the unevenness of the teaching talent was, at times, frustrating.
    
    -UB provides an exceptional education for the price. UB also provides an outlet to network with local professionals and learn from your peers in other local industries.
    
    -The professors and course curriculum were excellent and the structure of the program allowed for extensive group work and networking opportunities, which were the most beneficial aspects of the program and helped prepare me for career advancement.
    
    -The program could have offered courses in non-profit management and possibly a course or training on how to negotiate salary increase/promotion upon graduation.
    
    -Great professors, great Part time MBA office very helpful and accommodating staff and professors
    
    -No interaction at all with daytime students. There were no opportunities for interaction as there were no social gatherings, meetings, or times when we would overlap. We were treated as two separate programs. Students took it upon themselves to coordinate events. The university did not make a sense of community for use beyond the first day when they provided our books. Any community events that we felt were actually put together independently by another student. The full time MBA students had a marketing professor who helped them complete for an award to market a product, winning a prize of thousands of dollars. The part time students were not informed of this award, able to participate in the marketing of the product, or in any way partake in the event.
    
    -The full-time faculty was great instructors. However, excessive use of adjunct faculty in core courses to cut teaching costs is the primary drawback.
    
    -There were three courses, Statistics, Organizational Behavior, and Strategy that challenged the students to learn and think in different ways. Statistics was very demanding making it more like a graduate level course. The daytime program students seem to have more coursework according to peers who attended that program. It seems that if the education is equivalent that the work should be equivalent. I would have liked every course to demand as much from me as Statistics did in order to increase the amount that I learned, especially with a general MBA.