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

Northwestern University

Kellogg School of Management

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 92 %
      • Average months to complete program: 30
      • 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: $42,656.00
      • Non-Resident: $42,656.00

    • Tuition per credit:

      • Resident $5,332.00
      • Non-resident $5,332.00
      • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 2,606
      • Full-Time MBA: 1,115
      • Part-Time MBA: 961
      • Executive MBA: 389
      • PhD Program: 141

  • ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

      • Applicant interviews are: Required

  • ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

      • Rolling admissions? Yes
      • GMAT required? Yes
      • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes
      • Is proficiency in English required? Yes

    • Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Female students: 26 %
      • International students: 17 %

    • Postgraduate work experience (months):

      • Mean: 78
      • One year or less: 0 %

    • Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

      • Mean: $92,443.00

    • Entering students work in the following functional areas:

      • Consulting: 7 %
      • Finance/Accounting: 32 %
      • General Management: 5 %
      • Human Resources: 2 %
      • Marketing/Sales: 18 %
      • Management Information Systems: 6 %
      • Operations/Production: 15 %
      • Other: 15 %

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

      • General Electric 7
      • Goldman Sachs 6
      • United States Navy 5
      • Morningstar, Inc. 5
      • Caterpillar, Inc. 5
      • Mean age, newest entering class: 29

  • 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: 42 %

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

      • Loans (private and government): 100 %
      • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 290

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 106
      • Non-Tenured: 116

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 19
      • Non-Tenured: 84

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 18
      • Non-Tenured: 42

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 15
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 34
      • Non-Tenured: 64

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 106
      • Non-Tenured: 99

  • 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
        • E-business
        • Environmental
        • Consulting
        • Information Technology
        • Manufacturing
        • Media & Entertainment
        • Investment Banking
        • Business Ethics
        • Business Law

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

        • International Club
        • Black MBA Association
        • Hispanic Student Organization
        • Volunteer
        • Women in MBA
        • Other
        • Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
        • Partners/Family
        • Wine
      • Do part-time MBA students have their own area/center on campus? Yes
      • Do part-time MBA students have break-out rooms? Yes

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Teaching Methods:

      • Case Study: 30 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 30 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 25 %
      • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 12
      • Average core class size: 55
      • Average elective class size: 37
      • Electives available: 161

    • Recently added electives:

      • Social Impact Marketing;Social Dynamics and Networks
      • Managing Innovation Challenges and Contexts
      • Social Entrepreneurship;Online Commerce
      • International Trade and Commerce; Design Lab
      • Online Commerce; Marketing in Developing Economies
      • Last curriculum revision: 2002

    • Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

        • Accounting
        • Finance
        • General Management
        • Human Resource Management
        • Marketing
        • Other
        • Entrepreneurship
        • Operations Management
        • Organizational Behavior
        • Strategy
        • Corporate Social Responsibility
        • International Business
        • Economics
        • Statistics and Operations Research

    • Additional concentrations offered:

      • Healthcare Administration; media/entertainment
      • Real Estate
      • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

    • Leading areas of study:

        • Finance
        • Leadership
        • Strategy
        • 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
      • Other graduation requirements: Students must complete the requirements for at least one major/concentration; students are required to complete international experience

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Computing devices upgraded.Provision of laptop loaner pool/managed hardware repair provided to all FT students.MS 2010 Collaboration Suite deployed.Admissions and career systems upgraded.Online career resources expanded.Social networking presence created;online student club environment launched; student-wide internal wiki launched.Video conferencing and capture upgraded.Central research server and computing cluster upgraded.Virtualization infrastructure for servers expanded.
      • Amount spent: $17,000,000.00

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

      • Living MBA alumni: 42,811
      • Active MBA alumni clubs: 82
      • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 41
      • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
      • Business school endowment $708,000,000.00
      • 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: http://alumni.northwestern.edu/
      • 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://alumni.kellogg.northwestern.edu/
      • 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

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