Dartmouth (Tuck)

Classes begin on: 26th of September 2009

School based in: U.S.

Status: Private

Graduate business school is accredited by: AACSB International

Enrollment

Total graduate business school: 506

Full-time MBA: 506

PhD program: N/A 

Program Length

Full-time program (months): 21

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

Resident : $  91,905 

Nonresident : $  91,905 

Recommended annual budget (Resident): $  72,700

Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $  72,700

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

Female: 35 %

International: 36 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 1 %

Asia: 13 %

Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 2%

Latin America and the Caribbean: 6 %

Middle East: 2 %

North America: 71 %

Western Europe: 4 %

Oceania: 1%

 

Middle 80% range GMAT scores: from 660 to 760

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 67 

Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 61

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months: from 37 to 105

New entrants with one year or less of work experience: 0 %

Mean age of entering class: 29 

Median age of entering class: 29

Applicants

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 2898

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 16 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 54 %

Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 8 %  

Applicant interviews are: 100%

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: 81 %

Institutional Scholarships: 54 %

Loans (private and government): 87 %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 51,832

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 66,000

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

a combination of need and merit

Faculty

Full-time faculty employed by the school: 41

Permanent/tenured professors: 34

Tenured faculty who are women: 12 %

Tenured faculty who are underrepresented minorities: 3 %

Class offerings

Average students in a full-time MBA core class: 60

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class: 36

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students in the 2006-07 academic year: 75

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum: 2004

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:
MBA/MA (Arts)

MBA/MD (Medicine)
MBA/Meng (Engineering Manufacturing Management)

The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:
Consulting, Finance, Marketing, Strategy

Career Services

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 91 %

Graduates not seeking employment: 8 %

Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 1 %

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

1: McKinsey & Company

2: Lehman Brothers

3: Bain & Company

4: Beacon Capital Partners

5: Oliver Wyman

6: Deutsche Bank

7: Goldman Sachs

8: UBS

9: Booz Allen Hamilton

10: Citigroup

11: The Parthenon Group

12: AIG

13: Bank of America

14: Fidelity

15: Morgan Stanley

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $  110,305

Median base salary for most recent graduates: $  110,000

Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  26,220

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

Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  31,308

Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  20,000

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 81 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 36 %

Finance/Accounting: 35 %

General Management: 11 %

Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 9 %

Management Information Systems (MIS): 0 %

Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 1 %

Other: 8 %