University Of Wisconsin-milwaukee

PROGRAM BASICS

• • University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  • Lubar School MBA
  • 3202 N Maryland Avenue
  • Milwaukee, 53211, Wisconsin
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www4.uwm.edu/business/
  • E-mail: mba-ms@uwm.edu
• • Percentage of part-time students who graduate within six years of entering program: 90 %
  • Average months to complete program: 30
  • Maximum months permitted to complete program: 84
  • Does the school have a separate full-time MBA program? No

• Tuition and Fees: (Based on six credits in the fall and six credits in the spring)

  • Resident: $26,116.00
  • Non-Resident: $55,525.00
• • Tuition per credit: $752.00
• • Graduate business school is accredited by: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

SCHOOL BASICS

• Graduate business school enrollment:

  • Total: 680
  • Part-Time MBA: 300
  • Executive MBA: 42
  • PhD Program: 56
• • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 3,864
  • Graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, Master of Technology, Master of Marketing, Master of Electronic Commerce/Information Systems
  • Other graduate degree programs: MS-Professional Accounting; MS-Nonprofit Management

ADMISSIONS, SELECTIVITY AND YIELD

• • Total applications, most recent entering class: 178
  • Applications accepted, most recent entering class: 52 %
  • Admitted students enrolled: 72 %
  • Applicants wait-listed during the last admissions cycle: 0
  • Wait-listed applicants admitted for the semester to which they applied: 0
  • Applicant interviews are: Not required

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

• • Rolling admissions? Yes
  • GMAT required? Yes
  • Average GMAT: 564
  • Median GMAT: 550

• Middle 80% GMAT:

  • From: 460
  • To: 660
• • Is proficiency in English required? Yes
  • Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required? Yes

• Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?

  • • IELTS
    • TOEFL Computer Based
    • TOEFL Internet Based Test
    • TOEFL Paper-based Test
• • Minimum paper-based TOEFL: 550

• Relative Importance of Application Elements:

  • GMAT Score: Important
  • Resume/Work Experience: Not Considered
  • Application Essays: Important
  • Interviews Not Considered
  • Recommendations: Considered
  • Undergraduate Transcripts: Very Important

CLASS PROFILE

• • Female students: 37 %
  • International students: 10 %

• Percentage of U.S. students in newest entering class that are:

  • African American: 1 %
  • Asian American: 3 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 96 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Postgraduate work experience (months):

  • Mean: 52
  • Median: 48
  • From: 12
  • To: 96
  • One year or less: 13 %

• Base salary of entering part-time MBA students:

  • From: $42,000.00
  • To: $124,000.00

• Entering students work in the following functional areas:

  • Finance/Accounting: 13 %
  • General Management: 11 %
  • Human Resources: 5 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 13 %
  • Management Information Systems: 3 %
  • Operations/Production: 16 %
  • Other: 39 %

• Entering students work in the following industries:

  • Consumer Products: 3 %
  • Government: 5 %
  • Manufacturing: 15 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 10 %
  • Non-Profit: 11 %
  • Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 8 %
  • Real Estate: 2 %
  • Technology: 2 %
  • Other: 28 %

FINANCIAL AID

• • Part-time MBAs apply for financial aid through: Central financial aid office at the university
  • Students receiving some form of financial aid in 2009-10: 26 %

• Of part-time MBA students who applied for financial aid for the 2009-10 academic year, percentage receiving:

  • Institutional Scholarships: 16 %
  • Assistantships: 2 %
  • Loans (private and government): 83 %
• • Mean financial aid package: $15,646.00
  • Median financial aid package: $14,500.00
  • On what basis are scholarships awarded? A combination of need and merit
  • Full-tuition scholarships awarded, 2009-10: 3
  • How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration? Unique scholarship application
  • Does school offer a guaranteed loan to all part-time MBAs? No

FINANCIAL AID

• • Faculty employed by the B-school: 125

• Full-time faculty:

  • Tenured: 41
  • Non-Tenured: 36

• Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 48

• Women on Faculty:

  • Tenured: 9
  • Non-Tenured: 17

• Minority Faculty:

  • Tenured: 15
  • Non-Tenured: 13

• International Faculty:

  • Tenured: 0
  • Non-Tenured: 13

• Faculty with PhDs:

  • Tenured: 41
  • Non-Tenured: 40

STUDENT LIFE

• Active MBA specialization clubs open to part-time students:

  • • Other

• Active MBA networking clubs open to part-time students:

  • • Other
• • Do part-time MBA students have their own area/center on campus? No
  • Do part-time MBA students have break-out rooms? Yes

TEACHING/ACADEMICS

• Teaching Methods:

  • Case Study: 30 %
  • Distance Learning: 0 %
  • Experiential Learning: 5 %
  • Lectures: 30 %
  • Simulations: 10 %
  • Team Projects: 25 %
• • Estimated number of hours per week students spend working in class and outside the classroom: 18
  • Teachers in the part-time program: 31
  • Tenured teachers in the part-time program: 14
  • Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience 100 %
  • Average core class size: 25
  • Average elective class size: 18
  • Electives available: 18

• Recently added electives:

  • Issues in Health Care Leadership
• • Last curriculum revision: 2001

• Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

  • • Accounting
    • General Management
    • Operations Management
    • Finance
    • International Business
    • Marketing
    • Human Resource Management
    • Strategy
    • Other
    • Entrepreneurship
    • E-commerce
    • Leadership

• Additional concentrations offered:

  • Health Care Management
  • Information Technology Management
  • Managing Innovations & New Products
  • Nonprofit Management
  • Supply Chain Management
• • Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program? No

• Leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Management Information Systems
    • Strategy

• Graduation requirements:

  • • Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
    • Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
• • Credits required to graduate: 39

TECHNOLOGY

• • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: 125 new computers for 4 labs; 30 new classroom computers and AV upgrades; classroom software upgrades; enhanced/expanded secured access system; enhanced/expanded database access; new computers for faculty; replacement computers for adjuncts and teaching assistants; scala display panels.
  • Amount spent: $1,539,000.00

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Living MBA alumni: 3,866
  • Living MBA alumni who gave in past year: 35 %
  • Mean gift from MBA alumni: $272.00
  • Median gift from MBA alumni: $50.00
  • Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year? No
  • Business school endowment $23,658,000.00
  • Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni? Yes
  • Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site? Yes
  • University alumni networking site: http://www4.uwm.edu/alumni/
  • Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site? No
  • Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database? No

CAREER SERVICES

• • Do part-time MBAs have access to career development office?
    • Yes
  • If yes, at what point in the degree process are part-time MBA students able to use the service?
    • At any time
  • Are part-time students included in resume drops? Yes

• Organizations that send the most participants to the part-time MBA program:

  • Northwestern Mutual Life 2
  • UW-Milwaukee 4

• • The strengths are real world experience and application of concepts. The only weakness I could identify is assistance with job placement.
    
    
    
    The classroom experience was great. There is a ton of group work and presentations to prepare me for the real world.
    
    
    
    If you want to have the MBA title next to your name at an affordable price at a school with a flexible schedule, UWM is a fit. If you are really looking to separate yourself from other MBAs and stand ahead of the pack, you will be disappointed with the lack of rigor in UWM's program. It sees itself as a second-tier grad institution and acts accordingly.
    
    
    
    I've enjoyed my experience a lot attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I believe the professors have been amazing and the time has gone so fast. I graduate this fall and I feel like I just started yesterday. The balance between work and school has been a challenge, but I wouldn't change anything. I loved that I had an opportunity to study overseas and take a class in Paris. When I started the program, I didn't see myself doing something like that.
    
    
    
    Too many professors are teaching courses the same way they did years before. They have a syllabus and PowerPoint slides prepared and some relevant cases selected, and they are sticking to it. For too many professors, it was apparent that they were coasting. In the broadest sense, they didn't challenge students in the appropriate way. MBA students should not be given busy work nor graded on participation. They should be challenged with difficult reading (not the amount, but the content), given the questions and answers to complex finance problems to be able to teach themselves and learn each step along the way, and they should be challenged with discussions in-class. This didn't happen enough at UWM; the professors and coursework were geared more toward undergraduates than graduates.
    
    
    
    With few exceptions the instructors where able to bring real life experience to the classroom and share their knowledge and passion.
    
    
    
    The school should incorporate more on-line coursework/classes as part of the curriculum. I know some programs are all on-line, but others don't have any. It would be nice to have at least some assignments/courses that are offered on-line that would count toward the degree. Because on-line and electronic communications are such an important part of the world today, more on-line work should be required of all programs, especially considering this program didn't have any. Also, I believe that classes should not have the entire grade dependent on just one thing, like exams. Classes should mix up the graded activities because all students learn differently and also by mixing things up, the student gets the opportunity to meet many students and see many different sides of things, which is very important and teaches students the importance of gathering different points of view and learning how other people will do things. This adds to the decision making process, which is especially important if you have been working for a company for awhile. It is important to see how other companies do things because it can improve your professional development.
    
    
    
    Many of the instructors have significant work experience so everybody can relate to one another, instead of only reviewing case studies where all the relevant information is provided (classroom vs. business world examples). As far as something that could be improved upon, I feel that sometimes the instructors assume that everybody is knowledgeable in the same topics they are teaching about, and this can make it somewhat difficult to understand these points. This is why we are here, taking the MBA courses to begin with.
    
    
    
    I am fortunate to be able to experience the MBA program at UWM! I've heard of many people taking all of their classes online, but I feel that the instructor/student relationship you get from actually showing up for class is a huge bonus in more effective learning.
    
    
    
    The quality of professors needs great improvement. The good professors are a pain, all the good ones in all fields are: they are smart, they challenge authority, they ask questions, they offer radical solutions to problems, they don't accept status quo, etc. The things that make the great professors great put them in the doghouse of the administration. The leadership really needs to focus on a higher quality of professors to take this program to the next level.
    
    
    
    This MBA program is designed for the part-time MBA person who needs a refresher on business basics. The majority of program courses cover undergraduate material in the first several weeks before diving into new material.