Harvard School of Business

Harvard School of Business

Classes begin on: 23d of August 2009

School based in: U.S.

Status: Private

Graduate business school is accredited by: AACSB International

Enrollment

Total graduate business school: 1921

Full-time MBA: 1801

PhD program: 72

Program Length

Full-time program (months): 18

Program costs
Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:

Resident : $  101,660

Nonresident : $  101,660

Recommended annual budget (Resident): $  73,300

Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $  73,300

Profile
Full-time students in newest entering class (2007-08) that are:

Female: 36 %

International: 33 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 2 %

Asia: 10 %

Latin America and the Caribbean: 4 %

Middle East: 2 %

North America: 69 %

Western Europe: 9 %

Oceania: 1%

Middle 80% range GMAT score: from 680  to 750

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 48 

Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 48

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months: from 35 to 62

New entrants with one year or less of work experience: 2 %

Mean age of entering class: 27 

Median age of entering class: 27

Applicants

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 8661

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 12 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 91 %

Applicant interviews are: By invitation only

Financial Aid

Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Dedicated financial aid office at school

Full-time MBAs applied for financial aid for the current academic year: 74 %

Institutional Scholarships: 49 %

Loans (private and government): 64 %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 55098

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 63400

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

financial need

Faculty

Full-time faculty employed by the school: 256

Permanent/tenured professors: 90

Tenured faculty who are women: 18 %

Class offerings

Average students in a full-time MBA core class: 90

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class: 90

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students in the 2006-07 academic year: 95

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:
MBA/MD (Medicine)
Other

The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:
Social Responsobility, Entrepreneurship, General Management, Leadership, Strategy

Career Services

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 84 %

Graduates not seeking employment: 16 %

Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 3 %

Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:

1: in ALPHA order: Bain & Co.

2: Booz Allen Hamilton

3: Boston Consulting Group, The

4: Citi

5: Credit Suisse

6: Fidelity Investments

7: Goldman Sachs & Co.

8: Google

9: JP Morgan Chase

10: Lehman Brothers, Inc.

11: Limited Brands

12: McKinsey & Co.

13: Morgan Stanley

14: PepsiCo, Inc.

15: UBS

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $  124,378

Median base salary for most recent graduates: $  120,000

Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  27,027

Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  20,000

Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 27,027

Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  35,000

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 76 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 24 %

Finance/Accounting: 45 %

General Management: 11 %

Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 13 %

Other: 8 %