PROGRAM BASICS

• • Bryan School of Business and Economics
  • Bryan MBA
  • 301 Bryan Building
  • 516 Stirling Street
  • Greensboro, 27412, North Carolina
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://mybryanmba.com
  • E-mail: mybryanmba@uncg.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 85 %
  • Average months to complete program: 25
  • 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: $5,198.00
  • Non-Resident: $14,368.00

• Tuition per credit:

  • Resident $368.00
  • Non-resident $1,132.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 363
  • Full-Time MBA: 55
  • Part-Time MBA: 99
  • PhD Program: 21
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 2,426
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other
  • Other graduate degree programs: MS in Information Technology and Management; MS in Consumer; Apparel, and Retail Studies; MA in Applied Economics

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 134
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 58 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 56 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Not required

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT required? Yes
  • Are applicants allowed to submit the GRE? Yes

• GMAT score distribution (applicant pool)

  • 50th Percentile (median) 540
  • 90th Percentile 640
  • 10th Percentile 370
  • 75th Percentile 590
  • Average GMAT Score 520
  • 25th Percentile 440

• GMAT score distribution (incoming class)

  • 75th Percentile 600
  • Average GMAT Score 570
  • 50th Percentile (median) 570
  • 10th Percentile 480
  • 25th Percentile 520
  • 90th Percentile 680
• • 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: Very Important
  • Resume/Work Experience: Very Important
  • Application Essays: Very Important
  • Recommendations: Very Important
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 16 %
  • International students: 18 %

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

  • African American: 10 %
  • Asian American: 5 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 69 %
  • Chose not to report: 15 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 73
  • Median: 38
  • From: 12
  • To: 204
  • One year or less: 11 %

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • Mean: $48,821.00
  • Median: $51,500.00

• Middle 80% range:

  • From: $7,000.00
  • To: $100,000.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Finance/Accounting: 17 %
  • General Management: 11 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 33 %
  • Operations/Production: 6 %
  • Other: 33 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consumer Products: 26 %
  • Financial Services: 11 %
  • Manufacturing: 18 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5 %
  • Real Estate: 14 %
  • Technology: 11 %
  • Other: 14 %
• • Mean age, newest entering class: 33
  • Median age, newest entering clas: 30

FINANCIAL AID

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

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

  • Institutional Scholarships: 5 %
• • On what basis are scholarships awarded? Academic merit
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2011-12: 2
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? all candidates are considered for scholarships
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No
  • Mean outstanding debt at graduation: $11,098.00

FACULTY

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 100

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 36
  • Non-Tenured: 37

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 4
  • Non-Tenured: 23

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 3
  • Non-Tenured: 20

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 10
  • Non-Tenured: 4

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 8

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 37
  • Non-Tenured: 25
• • Faculty on company boards: 12

STUDENT LIFE

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

  • • Black MBA Association
• • 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: 35 %
  • Distance Learning: 20 %
  • Experiential Learning: 5 %
  • Lectures: 25 %
  • Simulations: 5 %
  • Team Projects: 10 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend on classwork, excluding time spent in class: 24
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 30
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 21
  • Faculty also teaching in full-time program: 93 %
  • Average core class size: 29
  • Average elective class size: 16
  • Electives available: 108

• Recently added electives:

  • Problems in Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies
  • Economic Dynamics of the Retail Complex
  • International Retailing
  • Problems in Retail Marketing
  • Problems in Retail and Consumer Studies
• • Last curriculum revision: 2010
  • Recent curriculum changes: 11 new core courses were introduced in the 2010-11 academic year and the program's length was shortened to 39 credit hours. Concentrations have been added in finance, marketing, supply chain management, and information technology

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Other

• Additional concentrations offered:

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Information Technology
  • Information Assurance, Security and Privacy
  • Healthcare Information Technology Management
  • Nonprofit Management
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Finance
    • General Management
    • Marketing
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Management Information Systems

• 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: 39

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: The Bryan School server environment and wireless network have both been upgraded to state-of-the-art systems. Technology in the classroom has also been similarly upgraded.

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 2,808
  • Active MBA alumni clubs: 1
  • Countries in which MBA clubs exist: 1
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 1 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $336.00
  • 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 $20,704,649.00
  • 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://csc.dept.uncg.edu/alumni/mentornetwork/
  • 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.uncg.edu/bae/gcs/alumnicontact/
  • 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 course work was rigorous and thorough. The students and professors are smart and motivating. I highly recommend the UNCG Evening MBA Program and I am proud of my MBA.
    
    -The quality of the faculty was better than expected. The faculty had a varied background in terms of areas of expertise and global work experience.
    
    -UNCG's MBA program provides a top-notch educational experience at a fraction of the cost of most other programs. The professors are extremely knowledgeable and are dedicated to giving their students the best education possible.
    
    -Find a way to offer more elective, which have been decreased due to severe state budget cuts
    
    -The UNCG program has helped me a great deal at work by providing me a much-improved foundation for business related matters. I had been a biology major in undergrad and had progressed along in my job(s) learning along the way. With a better business foundation I believe my prospects for advancement or another career have dramatically improved.
    
    -Provide more diversity of classes and more exotic classes. Incorporate more local leaders and business people into the classroom experience as guest speakers and adjunct faculty.
    
    -I feel the MBA provided the toolbox to build a solid foundation for my career.
    
    -Personally, I prefer face-to-face classes, as opposed to online classes. I think that the MBA program should continue allowing people to take classes in person. However, in the future, some students may want more and more online classes. The MBA program offers online courses, but I preferred not to take them. However, the ones I did take were fine and worth my time and effort.
    
    -I think the school provides a great education for the price. It is an excellent return on investment!
    
    -More leadership courses might have been helpful. The streamlining of the course offerings as described above might make it possible to take more electives so that a student could explore different interests. In that case it might be good to offer a pass-fail option to that students are not penalized for trying something that might be outside of their current comfort zone. Encouraging this kind of exploration I think would benefit the students.
    
    -It was amazing to see how positively this program impacted me as a student, professional, and individual. I have become a person I did not know that I could be. I highly recommend this program.
    
    -We were on a quarter system. There was so much information coming in a short period of time, it was overwhelming at times, and such a short time to digest the information and let it sink in. The program is being converted to a semester long course schedule which should help.
    
    -Professors were high quality, classes were challenging, and it was very competitive
    
    -A few things: -A higher standard for admitting students. The program is much lower cost than its competitors. Therefore, it could stand a small cost increase if needed to cover potential shortfalls in enrollment. -More leadership, entrepreneurial and marketing classes. -More focus on "soft skills". The technical focus seemed to be aimed at creating mid-level technicians as opposed to mid and high level managers. -More quality adjuncts or professors with valuable real-world experience.