INSEAD

INSEAD

Columbia Business School

Classes begin on: 23d of August 2009, 11th of January 2010

School based in: France (Fontainebleau), Singapore 

Status: Private

Graduate business school is accredited by:

Association of MBAs (AMBA)
European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)
EQUIS, European Quality Improvement System

Enrollment

Full-time MBA: 914

PhD program: 54

Program Length

Full-time program (months): 10

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

Resident : $  70,000

Nonresident : $  70,000

Recommended annual budget (Resident): $  98,000

Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $  98,000

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

Female: 29 %

International: 90 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 2.6 %

Asia: 29 %

Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia 6%

Latin America and the Caribbean: 4.4 %

Middle East: 6 %

North America: 10 %

Western Europe: 41 %

Oceania: 1%

Middle 80% range GMAT scores: from 650 to 750

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 71 

Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 69

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months: from 38 to 108

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

Mean age of entering class: 29 

Median age of entering class: 29

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: 59 %

Institutional Scholarships: 21 %

Loans (private and government): 36 %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 55812

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 70500

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

financial need

academic merit

a combination of need and merit

Faculty

Full-time faculty employed by the school: 231

Permanent/tenured professors: 90

Tenured faculty who are women: 7 %

Class offerings

Average students in a full-time MBA core class: 75

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class: 35

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students in the 2006-07 academic year: 80

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum: 2003

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

General Management

The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:
Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, General Management,International Business, Leadership

Career Services

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 86 %

Graduates not seeking employment: 10 %

Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 4 %

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

1: Mckinsey & Company (75)

2: Bain & Company (46)

3: The Boston Consulting Group (36)

4: Booz Allen Hamilton (17)

5: Barclays Capital (16)

6: Standard Chartered Bank (14)

7: American Express (10)

8: Citigroup (9)

9: Merrill Lynch (9)

10: Deutsche Bank (8)

11: Morgan Stanley (8)

12: AT Kearney (8)

13: EF Education (8)

14: Schneider Electric (8)

15: Dell / BT (7)

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $  110,600

Median base salary for most recent graduates: $  109,480

Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  22,400

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 62 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 46 %

Finance/Accounting: 21 %

General Management: 10 %

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

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

Other: 20 %