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Recently added electives:
Consumer Behavior
Training & Development
New Product Development
Entrepreneurship I
Entrepreneurship II
Sales Management

Last curriculum revision:
2006

Recent curriculum changes:
N/A

Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

Entrepreneurship

General Management

Human Resource Management

Leadership

Marketing

Other

Additional concentrations offered:
Project Mgmt
Sales Management

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Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program?
Yes

Leading areas of study:

Entrepreneurship

General Management

Human Resource Management

International Business

Leadership

Marketing

Operations Management

Organizational Behavior

Strategy

Supply Chain Management

Graduation requirements:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/letter grade average

Students must complete a company-specific project and present results to relevant parties

Credits required to graduate:
39

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
The Elon MBA program is housed in the newly completed (fall, 2006) Koury Business Center, a 65,000 square, $10 million facility that offers the latest technology and provides students and faculty members with an attractive space for teaching and learning. State of the art technology is a major component of the building, which has wireless Internet service throughout. The William Garrard Reed Finance Center simulates a real stock trading room, with plasma screens to deliver cable financial news and an electronic stock crawl that provides the latest data from global financial markets. The room has two video projectors for student and faculty presentations. The 240-seat LaRose Digital Theatre is fully wired for multimedia and worldwide videoconferencing technology. It includes a three-chip, high definition DLP video projector capable of using the 16 x 9 widescreen video format. An advanced video conferencing system includes three video cameras and 12 microphones that can stream signals through a broadband Internet connection All 16 classrooms allow instructors to access technology from the lectern, including the Internet, real-time financial information and cable television. All classrooms have a video projector with stereo sound. Multiple classrooms offer flexible seating configurations to fit different lesson plans and accommodate group work. The Koury Business Center has 2 traditional computer labs that contain a total of 78 PC workstations, while a third collaborative lab contains seven pods, each with five networked computer workstations that can be switched to route their displays to a large-screen plasma flat panel display. The center also has 17 study rooms, 3 student research rooms, 2 club rooms, a student enterprise academy room and a seminar/board room and dean’s suite. The LabCorp Suite for Executive Education includes 3 classrooms, 4 study rooms and a specially designed collaborative computer lab for conducting realistic business simulations. Also available to MBA students is a sophisticated array of in-house technology services, offering design assistance to students for their multimedia projects. Assistance is also provided for the creation of websites, interactive CDs, and 3D animation. Onstaff video production professionals assist students produce and combine images and sound through effective video and audio editing techniques, produce high quality media-based presentations.

Amount spent:
$  1,638,738

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Living MBA alumni:
687

Active MBA alumni clubs:
1

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:
1

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:
12  %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:
$  451

Median gift from MBA alumni:
$  60

  Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year?
No

  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://e2.elon.edu

  Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?
No

  Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?
Yes

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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:



Cisco Systems
  4


Duke University
  3

RF Micro Devices
  3

BB&T
  2

SAS
  2

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I like the fact that Elon in a private school and its reputation for high profile speakers.

I visited the school and loved the faculty and staff, and the feel of the program.

I visited the campus talked with the administrators and felt very comfortable here.

After visiting several campuses, meeting with faculty and hearing from alumni from various programs, I knew immediately which program was the best choice. I felt no need to apply elsewhere.

Student is a person as opposed to a number coming through the program.

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Primary reason for choosing Elon was their student-centered approach to the program. I went into the program knowing that work and family would combine before the program. Elon accommodated my frequent business travel and family needs, while providing a program that is extremely responsive to student feedback and needs.

I was a current employee at Elon when I started the program and they would cover most all of the tuition costs.

I was an alumni at the university and knew what the school had to offer.

The sense of community and the holistic approach to the Elon MBA program.

I chose Elon for the school reputation, as well as the value factor. I wanted a good school at a reasonable price.

Elon has a more creative approach to the ever changing business environment.