PROGRAM BASICS

• • Butler MBA Program
  • Butler MBA Program
  • 4600 Sunset Avenue
  • Indianapolis, 46208, Indiana
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.ButlerMBA.com
  • E-mail: mba@butler.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 86 %
  • Average months to complete program: 24
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 60
  • Does the school have a separate full-time MBA program? No

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

  • Resident: $7,800.00
  • Non-Resident: $7,800.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $650.00
  • Non-resident $650.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 214
  • Part-Time MBA: 200
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 728
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 83
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 69 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 86 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Not required

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 550
  • Average GMAT Score 549
  • 10th Percentile 373
  • 25th Percentile 435
  • 75th Percentile 656
  • 90th Percentile 691

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 595
  • 25th Percentile 520
  • 10th Percentile 505
  • 90th Percentile 700
  • Average GMAT Score 592
  • 75th Percentile 671
• • 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?

  • • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test
    • U Michigan Language Test

• Other additional English language proficiency tests accepted

  • N/A
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL: 550

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  • GMAT Score: Very Important
  • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
  • Application Essays: Considered
  • Interviews Not Considered
  • Recommendations: Considered
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 39 %
  • International students: 8 %

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

  • African American: 6 %
  • Asian American: 4 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 2 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 86 %
  • Chose not to report: 2 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 75
  • Median: 65
  • From: 153
  • To: 7
  • One year or less: 14 %

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 0 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 13 %
  • General Management: 17 %
  • Human Resources: 7 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 11 %
  • Management Information Systems: 2 %
  • Operations/Production: 24 %
  • Other: 26 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 7 %
  • Consumer Products: 21 %
  • Financial Services: 4 %
  • Government: 7 %
  • Manufacturing: 17 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
  • Non-Profit: 7 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 4 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 13 %
  • Real Estate: 7 %
  • Technology: 2 %
  • Other: 11 %

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

  • Eli Lilly & Company 18
  • Rolls-Royce Corp 9
  • Roche Diagnostics 7
  • Butler University 7
  • WellPoint, Inc. 5
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 30
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 28

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: 34 %

• Of part-time MBA students who applied for financial aid for the 2011-12 academic year, percentage receiving:

  • Institutional Scholarships: 2 %
  • Assistantships: 0 %
  • Loans (private and government): 69 %
• • Mean financial aid package: $11,064.00
  • Median financial aid package: $5,600.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded? A combination of need and merit
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 0
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Unique scholarship application
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No
  • Mean outstanding debt at graduation: $11,462.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 71

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 21
  • Non-Tenured: 22

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 28

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 4
  • Non-Tenured: 11

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 2
  • Non-Tenured: 9

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 3

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 21
  • Non-Tenured: 22
• • Faculty on company boards: 9

STUDENT LIFE

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

  • • Other
• • 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: 30 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 10 %
  • Lectures: 25 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 25 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 19
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 28
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 13
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 2 %
  • Average core class size: 21
  • Average elective class size: 13
  • Electives available: 12

• Recently added electives:

  • none added since July 1, 2011
• • Last curriculum revision: 2006
  • Recent curriculum changes: An International Capstone option added to Core Curriculum. The Core Curriculum Leadership course was restructured to include Student Assessment and the assignment of Executive Coaches to all students.

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Leadership
    • International Business
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Finance
    • Leadership

• 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
• • Other graduation requirements: Global Requirement: must complete a minimum of 2 credit hours of coursework with international/global designation.
• • Credits required to graduate: 33

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Added Real Business Experience classroom with 4 monitors and stock ticker.
  • Amount spent: $19,600.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 2,988
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 7 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $349.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $65.00
  • 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.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/BUU/homepage.cgi
  • Does the B-school offer career services for alumni? No
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

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 students included in resume drops? Yes

• • -I've already encouraged multiple friends and colleagues to enter the Butler University MBA program and two of them are now enrolled in the program. It has a very high quality of education with a dedicated faculty and staff, good and growing reputation, and it is affordable. The program is flexible and the faculty understands that “life happens”. The faculty works with you when you need to miss classes due to business travel. The flexibility was also apparent after the birth of my first child midway through the program. I was able to adjust my class schedules accordingly to better balance the needs of work, school, and family; yet I was still able to take the electives I wanted and graduate near when I had originally planned.
    
    -I think that the classroom experience in most of my classes was good; only a few classes were strictly lectures. I think anytime you pull in current examples, projects, guest speakers, etc., it always makes the subject material more applicable and interesting.
    
    -There is a gap with the program related to Entrepreneurship studies. There should be a core class devoted to entrepreneurship, as well as electives. You can do independent studies to cover entrepreneurship, but there needs to be a structured curricula regarding this topic.
    
    -The Butler MBA program was a very beneficial and influential program with many bright and talented individuals. I am very grateful to have been a part of the program and I encourage anyone seeking an excellent part-time MBA program to seek this one out!
    
    -I believe Butler offers a great value. They should really focus on building their networks at corporations beyond the Indianapolis area and focus on a regional network of corporations to draw them to their graduates
    
    -I think PowerPoint presentations should be banned altogether. I don't need a prof to 'read to me'. It's interesting that you ask about analytical skills because it seems like everything was turned into a quantitative exercise. For one of my last projects, I was in a group that had to assess an office location. Some criteria was a little bit 'gut feeling', and some students were so hooked on trying to quantify everything that it seemed like their heads might explode if something didn't lend itself to being reduced to figures.
    
    -The Butler University MBA program is by far the best post-secondary education experience I have had. It has helped me more in my career than my technical Masters degree and has opened my mind to many of the intricacies of the business world. Additionally, I have gained the confidence to launch my own company, which I plan to do shortly after graduation. This will initially be a side venture as I plan to continue employment with my current company; but I plan that it will grow and become stable enough for it to be a full time activity in a couple of years. I feel that the knowledge I have gained at Butler in addition to the resources that I have available to me will help me succeed in this new career field -- from engineering in the aerospace industry to financial services. The Butler University MBA program feels like that of a family and I will always feel part of Butler University.
    
    -Student body is very homogeneous (at least 90 percent 25- 35 y/o white males). Seems like they were all in similar jobs at only a handful of local companies. It was not a very friendly or open atmosphere, and students were not encouraged to speak up if they didn't understand something (quite the contrary: Students who asked questions were usually berated by 'smarter' students who would snicker under their breath but loud enough for most to hear). Profs didn't really encourage an open atmosphere or allow students to make mistakes (and learn from them).
    
    -The major strength of the instructors is that they take the students' learning very personally and seriously. They undertake large measures to make sure the students learn to think analytically, master the concepts, and apply the concepts appropriately in the business world. The professors may not be the most published or be in the latest research circles, but they are able to communicate and teach effectively. However, this is the reason one gets an MBA; the research would be more appropriate in a PhD program.