PROGRAM BASICS

• • Jenkins Graduate School of Management
  • Part-Time MBA Program
  • Jenkins Graduate School of Management`
  • MBA Program, Box 8114
  • Raleigh, 27695, North Carolina
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.mba.ncsu.edu
  • E-mail: mba@ncsu.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 96 %
  • Average months to complete program: 33
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 72
  • 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: $9,500.00
  • Non-Resident: $18,000.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $792.00
  • Non-resident $1,500.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Other

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 725
  • Full-Time MBA: 96
  • Part-Time MBA: 292
  • PhD Program: 101
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,521
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other
  • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Economics, Master of Arts in Economics, Master of Science in Agricultural Economics, PhD in Economics, Master of Global Innovation Management

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 160
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 93 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 73 %
  • 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? Yes

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 10th Percentile 480
  • Average GMAT Score 570
  • 50th Percentile (median) 570
  • 25th Percentile 530
  • 75th Percentile 630
  • 90th Percentile 680

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 560
  • 75th Percentile 600
  • 25th Percentile 510
  • 10th Percentile 480
  • 90th Percentile 650
  • Average GMAT Score 561
• • 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: 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: 15 %
  • International students: 12 %

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

  • African American: 5 %
  • Asian American: 16 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 77 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 1 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 82
  • Median: 60
  • From: 30
  • To: 180
  • One year or less: 1 %

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • Mean: $64,744.00
  • Median: $68,503.00

• Middle 80% range:

  • From: $34,206.00
  • To: $102,700.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 4 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 24 %
  • General Management: 20 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 10 %
  • Management Information Systems: 16 %
  • Operations/Production: 20 %
  • Other: 6 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consulting: 7 %
  • Consumer Products: 4 %
  • Financial Services: 15 %
  • Government: 8 %
  • Manufacturing: 5 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 0 %
  • Non-Profit: 5 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 9 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 13 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Technology: 16 %
  • Other: 17 %

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

  • Fidelity 18
  • Credit Suisse 18
  • Cisco Systems 14
  • IBM 13
  • Duke University 7
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 31
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 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: 63 %

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

  • Institutional Scholarships: 48 %
  • Assistantships: 0 %
  • Loans (private and government): 35 %
• • Mean financial aid package: $11,935.00
  • Median financial aid package: $20,500.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded? Financial need
  • 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: $14,904.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 100

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 51
  • Non-Tenured: 49

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 2
  • Non-Tenured: 14

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 9
  • Non-Tenured: 16

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 8
  • Non-Tenured: 7

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 0

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 20
  • Non-Tenured: 16

STUDENT LIFE

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

  • • Biotech/Health care
    • Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Business Ethics

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

  • • Women in MBA
    • Other
• • 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: 20 %
  • Lectures: 40 %
  • Team Projects: 40 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 18
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 16
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 14
  • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 100 %
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 67 %
  • Average core class size: 38
  • Average elective class size: 30
  • Electives available: 45

• Recently added electives:

  • Presentation Skills for Managers
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Product Innovation and Adoption
  • Consumer-Centric Innovation
• • Last curriculum revision: 2009
  • Recent curriculum changes: Expanded credit hours from 2 to 3 for core Marketing, Operations, Global Strategy, People Management, and Management of Technology courses. Change will allow students to get a broader and deeper understanding of core functional business concepts and will better accommodate work-related travel schedules. Decreased overall credit hour requirement from 47 to 45.

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Other
    • Entrepreneurship

• Additional concentrations offered:

  • Biosciences Management
  • Innovation Management
  • Services Management and Consulting
  • Supply Chain Management
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Other

• 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 a predetermined number of credit hours.
• • Credits required to graduate: 45

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Nelson Hall: Video cameras, student microphones, lecture capture recorders, touch panel control systems, lecterns, data/video projectors, high def projection screens, ceiling-mounted doc cameras, lectern computers, tablet monitors, motion sensors, student response systems, high def. projector. RTP Bldg: 4 new smart classrooms w/touch panel control systems, data/video projectors, lecterns, desktop computers, doc cameras, tablet monitors.
  • Amount spent: $1,500,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 1,127
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 3 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: 4923.84
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: 50.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $15,091,294.00
  • 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://www.alumni.ncsu.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.ncsu.mba.com/nscuweb/
  • 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

• • -There were many other young professionals in this program that you got the chance to meet and work with. The professors all had a lot of professional experience to share. The school's location was ideal for job placement afterwards because of the proximity to Research Triangle Park and Charlotte. Raleigh has been relatively recession proof compared to the rest of the nation.
    
    -I think that it would be great if every professor could have good plans for the classes. On only two instances out of some 20 plus something classes did I feel that I did not get what I paid for. I would suggest the program have some kind of effort to mentor newer professors to the program and allow them to adapt some of the better teaching methods.
    
    -The program forces that constant interaction that you have in the work place. There are many opportunities to gain knowledge from your peers, industry insiders, and professors through socials, competitions, and classroom gatherings.
    
    -On team projects, issues with schedule conflicts and differing priorities often caused problems with mix of part-time and full-time students broadly distributed geographically. I would have liked to have had the chance to build teams based on similarities in lifestyle or location to make it easier to spend more time together. I’d like to see more involvement and outreach to the entrepreneurial community would improve opportunities for students to mix with small companies.
    
    -I believe that the experience and exposure gained from the NC State MBA program can be a career changer. In addition to the many real world projects/problems I worked on, the networking opportunities were excellent. Additionally, I was only moderately comfortable presenting in front of a small group at the onset of the program, but the program has allowed me to fine tune my presenting skills to the point that I have given several presentations to groups of 75 to 100 people without a second thought.
    
    -Overall, I'm a big fan of the part-time MBA program at NC State. A few improvements: more emphasis on recruiting women and raising the visibility of women in the program (most marketing materials and success stories feature men). Encourage instructors to branch out away from standard lecture format and turn to more creative teaching methods that simulate real-world business challenges and environment.
    
    -The NC State part-time MBA offers an unmatched learning and growth experience. It is team-based throughout the program and teams are based on the Myers-Briggs personality types. Each team is specifically selected to have different personalities. You learn not only the subjects, but you learn about your own strengths and weaknesses, and how to work well with others.
    
    -There should be more class variety availability for summer sessions. There were limited options for electives to take during the summer.
    
    -With a few exceptions all of the professors were very knowledgeable about their subject area and I learned so much more than I knew before about wide reaching areas like ethics, finance, accounting, services and other business areas. I am using the MBA to change careers and I think that it opens up doors that just having an e-engineering degree would not.
    
    -NC State's program is somewhat new. They recently improved the facilities tremendously and I'd like to see them refine the courses and concentrations a bit. If budget allows, perhaps more electives, especially in the summer terms. They are definitely on the right track
    
    -I believe that the NCSU program is a strong program that challenges some of the paradigms related to traditional business school teachings. Also, for our geographic region, I believe that NCSU Business School is the best value. However, I do have misgivings about the transition to an online program.