Stanford GSB

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Classes begin on: 15th of September 2009

School based in: U.S.

Status: Private

Graduate business school is accredited by: AACSB International

Enrollment

Total graduate business school: 898

Full-time MBA: 739

PhD program: 102

Program Length

Full-time program (months): 21

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

Resident : $  97,842

Nonresident : $  97,842

Recommended annual budget (Resident): $  76,332 

Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $  76,332 

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

Female: 36 %

International: 43 %

Students from following regions:

Africa : 1 %

Asia: 12 %

Eastern and Central Eurpoe and Central Asia 5% 

Latin America and the Caribbean: 9 %

Middle East: 4 %

North America: 68 %

Western Europe: 8 %

Oceania: 2%

 

Middle 80% range GMAT score: from 670  to 770

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 45 

Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 47

Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months: from 23 to 66

New entrants with one year or less of work experience: 7 %

Mean age of entering class: N/A 

Median age of entering class: N/A

Applicants

Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class: 5741

Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 7.9 %

Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class: 80 %

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: 72 %

Institutional Scholarships: 53 %

Loans (private and government): 63 %

Mean MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 46711

Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year: 48915

On what basis are scholarships awarded?

financial need

academic merit

Faculty

Full-time faculty employed by the school: 103

Permanent/tenured professors: 68

Tenured faculty who are women: 15 %

Tenured faculty who are underrepresented minorities: 1 %

Class offerings

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

Average students in a full-time MBA elective class: 34

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students in the 2006-07 academic year: 125

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum: 2007

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

General Management

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

MBA/MD (Medicine)
Other

The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:
Entrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Other 

Career Services

Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 82 %

Graduates not seeking employment: 17 %

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: Amazon.com, Inc.

2: Anthos Capital Management

3: Apple, Inc.

4: Bain & Company, Inc.

5: Bain Capital

6: Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

7: Boston Consulting Group Inc., The

8: DaVita, Inc.

9: Deloitte Consulting LLP

10: Google, Inc.

11: Katzenbach Partners LLC

12: McKinsey & Company

13: Monitor Group Ltd.

14: Morgan Stanley

15: Yahoo! Inc.

Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $  123,171

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

Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $  27,069 

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

Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  73,324

Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $  40,000

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus: 71 %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 27 %

Finance/Accounting: 42 %

General Management: 4 %

Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research, Advertising, etc.): 14 %

Management Information Systems (MIS): 0 %

Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 5 %

Other: 5 %