Columbia Business School

 Columbia University

Columbia Business School

Classes begin on: 30th of August 2009, 

School based in: U.S.

Status: Private

Graduate business school is accredited by: AACSB International

Enrollment

Total graduate business school: 1961

Full-time MBA: 1234

PhD program: 87 

Program Length

Full-time program (months): 20

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

Resident : $  94,104 

Nonresident : $  94,104

Recommended annual budget (Resident): $  75,589

Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $  75,589

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

Female: 33 %

International: 40 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 1 %

Asia: 15 %

Latin America and the Caribbean: 5 %

Middle East: 2 %

North America: 64 %

Western Europe: 9 %

Oceania: 1%

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 58 

Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 54

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months: from 32 to 87

New entrants with one year or less of work experience: 3 %

Mean age of entering class: 28 

Median age of entering class: 28

Applicants

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:  5999

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 15 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 79 %

Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years: 11 %  

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: 65 %

Institutional Scholarships: 54 %

Loans (private and government): 92 %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 58,653

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 73,317

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

financial need

academic merit

a combination of need and merit

Faculty

Full-time faculty employed by the school: 116

Permanent/tenured professors: 116

Tenured faculty who are women: 11 %

Tenured faculty who are underrepresented minorities: 3 %

Class offerings

Average students in a full-time MBA core class: 65

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class: 44

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students in the 2006-07 academic year: 146

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

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Consulting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, General Management, Human, Resource Management, International Business Leadership, Marketing, Media/Entertainment, Operations Management, Portfolio Management, Real Estate, Strategy

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

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

Career Services

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 88 %

Graduates not seeking employment: 5 %

Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 7 %

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

1: McKinsey, 42

2: Citi, 26

3: Goldman Sachs, 25

4: Deutsche Bank, 22

5: Booz Allen, 18

6: JP Morgan Chase, 18

7: Boston Consulting, 14

8: Merrill Lynch, 14

9: Lehman Brothers, 13

10: Morgan Stanley, 13

11: American Express, 10

12: Bank of America, 10

13: Bear Stearns, 10

14: Credit Suisse, 10

15: UBS, 10

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $  107,450

Median base salary for most recent graduates: $  100,000

Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  30,582

Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  30,000

Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $   49,804

Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  30,000

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 74 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 23 %

Finance/Accounting: 55 %

General Management: 2 %

Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 7 %

Management Information Systems (MIS): 0 %

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

Other: 11 %