PROGRAM BASICS

• • Robert H. Smith School of Business
  • Part-Time MBA Program
  • Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
  • 2308 Van Munching Hall
  • College Park, 20742, Maryland
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/mba/programs/parttimemba.aspx
  • E-mail: mba_info@rhsmith.umd.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 92 %
  • 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? No

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

  • Resident: $38,475.00
  • Non-Resident: $45,765.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $1,425.00
  • Non-resident $1,695.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 1,746
  • Full-Time MBA: 261
  • Part-Time MBA: 949
  • Executive MBA: 40
  • PhD Program: 100
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,749
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Other
  • Other graduate degree programs: Masters in Information Systems; Masters in Supply Chain Management

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 559
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 89 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 54 %
  • Applicant interviews are: Not offered

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

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

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 600
  • 25th Percentile 510
  • 10th Percentile 420
  • 75th Percentile 650
  • Average GMAT Score 574
  • 90th Percentile 699

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 25th Percentile 540
  • 75th Percentile 630
  • 10th Percentile 500
  • 50th Percentile (median) 580
  • Average GMAT Score 584
  • 90th Percentile 677
• • 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: 600

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

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

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 29 %
  • International students: 12 %

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

  • African American: 9 %
  • Asian American: 14 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 1 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 6 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 67 %
  • Chose not to report: 3 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 62
  • Median: 51
  • From: 33
  • To: 85
  • One year or less: 6 %

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • Mean: $71,442.00
  • Median: $66,638.00

• Middle 80% range:

  • From: $52,513.00
  • To: $90,000.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 33 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 6 %
  • General Management: 28 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 16 %
  • Management Information Systems: 4 %
  • Operations/Production: 4 %
  • Other: 9 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 17 %
  • Consumer Products: 2 %
  • Financial Services: 23 %
  • Government: 12 %
  • Manufacturing: 1 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
  • Non-Profit: 5 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 6 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 4 %
  • Real Estate: 2 %
  • Technology: 12 %
  • Other: 15 %

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

  • Lockheed Martin 87
  • Northrop Grumman Corporation 71
  • Booze Allen Hamilton 49
  • T. Rowe Price, Inc. 37
  • Fannie Mae 31
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 28
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 27

FINANCIAL AID

• • Part-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 207

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 77
  • Non-Tenured: 70

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 60

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 20
  • Non-Tenured: 34

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 30
  • Non-Tenured: 41

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 7
  • Non-Tenured: 32

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 77
  • Non-Tenured: 89

STUDENT LIFE

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

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Nonprofit
    • Other
    • Consulting
    • Media & Entertainment

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

  • • International Club
    • Black MBA Association
    • Hispanic Student Organization
    • Women in MBA
    • Other
    • Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
• • 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: 25 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 15 %
  • Lectures: 30 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 20 %
  • Other: 0 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 21
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 115
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 39
  • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 100 %
  • Average core class size: 45
  • Average elective class size: 29
  • Electives available: 61

• Recently added electives:

  • Health IT
  • Business in a Political Age
  • Intermediate Accounting I: MBA
  • Capital Markets
  • Financial Strategy For Corporations
• • Last curriculum revision: 2007

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • General Management
    • Marketing
    • E-commerce
    • Other
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Leadership
    • Operations Management
    • Organizational Behavior
    • Strategy
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • International Business

• Additional concentrations offered:

  • Consulting
  • Portfolio Management
  • Management and Information Systems
  • Supply Chain Management
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Strategy
    • Marketing
    • Consulting

• Graduation requirements:

  • • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
• • Credits required to graduate: 54

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Recent technology upgrades include the addition of video cameras, instructor touch panels, AV controls, and HD projection units to all classrooms, a new Mac Lab; enhancements to the Supply Chain Lab Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology, Finance Lab and Behavioral Lab (Tobii eye tracker); new space at the Baltimore Bio Park and a new North Wing addition to Van Munching Hall; upgraded online community for MBAs, refreshed website and new alumni network.

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 10,023
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 5
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 2
  • 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.alumni.umd.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://www.smithconnector.com
  • 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 program was flexible both in the type of classes available and in accommodating to full time working students. The quality of education was great along with the quality of students.
    
    -While I gained a lot from the program, the expenses were so high that I'm now dreading the student loans I'll be paying back for many years into the future. My goal was to learn how to start a company and even though entrepreneurship classes were available and I did well in them, they still did not leave me with the confidence that I would be able to start a company and be successful.
    
    -The cohort that I started with was both serious about their MBA's and careers as well as friendly, easy to work with, and were close friends by the end of the program.
    
    -Maryland's MBA program would be improved by increased attention to maintaining the quality of their educators and current staff. Furthermore, with the current state of the economy, it is even more important to select the best students from across the country, maximizing the diversity of backgrounds and skill sets.
    
    -Although enrollment is large, the Smith School does a good job of tailoring education to individual students through a combination of flexible instructor office hours and interactive websites.
    
    -The career services and placement was the single greatest failure of the program. A mechanism to help career changers was completely lacking at the school and the limited networking opportunities due to the lack of diversity in the student body really made a career change impossible. In all fairness though, the finance crash certainly didn't help either.
    
    -Flexibility of multiple campuses allow for some classes to be taken after work, others on weekends, and all be convenient without compromising quality. Classmates were extremely diverse with regard to nationality, industry, experience, and interests -- made for intense but friendly in-class and project debates. Professors were above expectations, with few exceptions.
    
    -The registration process was abysmal. There were consistent problems each year with the system that they used. The school also had issues with web properties - there were too many and they were very confusing to navigate. It would have been helpful to have a central resource for all online properties.
    
    -The program is designed to be very applicable to real world situations. This enables you to garner skills needed to take the next step in your career.
    
    -I would want to see more effective job placement services. Although everyone in part-time program has a job, some students wanted to do a career switch or change to a different company. The school's career services are available to part-time students. But, I want to see more personalize services in job placements area. The school has a good career advice and counseling services though.
    
    -My MBA provided me with the academic knowledge I expected, and Part-Time classes were taught primarily by full-time highly accomplished Business School faculty. Additionally, the access to all the school's career services was very good and helped me find a position in line with my expectations.
    
    -I wish the University was a little more selective in their enrollment. Currently it seems like they are going for volume and treating the part time program as a cash cow. If they reduce the total number of students then they could focus more on each individual student.
    
    -The Smith MBA program is the best in the DC region. I enrolled in the accelerated version of the program, and felt that even in its current format it was too long (20 months). A 12-15 month program would be ideal given the duality of time commitments to work and the degree. If anything, that's what I would have liked to be changed.
    
    -More school sponsored events that cater to the part time students with speakers or events that occur at times that work for the Part time students
    
    -Students can learn things and develop general management knowledge and skills from any MBA programs. But, Smith school's leadership and entrepreneurship development program, support structure and facilities, curriculum and culture are really strong and effective.
    
    -There were three campuses at Smith. There could have been more finance classes offered in the Baltimore (my home) campus. Had to travel to take a few classes I really wanted
    
    -The caliber of teaching far exceeded my expectations with professors that had a combination of real world and academic backgrounds. They carried a passion to teach you the material while remaining flexible with your work schedule.