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STUDENT LIFE
Active MBA specialization clubs open to part-time students:

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Information Technology

Marketing

Other

Active MBA networking clubs open to part-time students:

International Club

Women in MBA

  Do part-time MBA students have their own area/center on campus?
Yes

  Do part-time MBA students have break-out rooms?
Yes

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TEACHING/ACADEMICS
Teaching Methods:

Case Study: 20  %
Distance Learning: 5  %
Experiential Learning: 10  %
Lectures: 20  %
Simulations: 5  %
Team Projects: 20  %
Other: 0  %

Estimated number of hours per week students spend working in class and outside the classroom:
18

Teachers in the part-time program:
84

Tenured teachers in the part-time program:
44

Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience:
27  %

Average core class size:
25

Average elective class size:
32

Electives available:
59

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Recently added electives:
Integrated Product Development
Integrated Market Communications
Business to Business Marketing
Social Benefit Entrepreneurship
Financial Instruments and Markets

Last curriculum revision:
1994

Recent curriculum changes:
Change to accounting core.

Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

Accounting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

International Business

Leadership

Marketing

Other

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Additional concentrations offered:
Managing Technology and Innovation
Supply Chain Management

  Does the B-school offer an accelerated part-time MBA program?
No

Leading areas of study:

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

Leadership

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:
70

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
New business school building opened in 2008; all classrooms, conference rooms, and project rooms wireless and high-definition teleconferencing-ready.

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Living MBA alumni:
12,000

  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://www.scu.edu/scualumni/online.cfm

  Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes

Business school alumni networking site:
http://www.scu.edu/business/alumni/graduate-alumni.cfm

  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 MBAs permitted to interview for full-time jobs?
Yes

  Are part-time students included in resume drops?
Yes

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



Cisco


EBay/Pay Pal

Lockheed Martin

Hewlett Packard

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The business experience and exposure to new ideas was great. The networking potential was also phenomenal as long as I was willing to pursue this on my own. I felt that the academics could have been a bit more rigorous.

SCU felt like the right choice due to the smaller class size and teachers availability to spend extra time out of class explaining materials.

Santa Clara Univeristy has a diverse mix of student backgrounds who work mostly in leading-edge industries. Beyond the coursework, I benefited by learning from my classmates and had the opportunity to learn about current developments in Silicon Valley.

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My favorite classes were those taught by the adjunct business professionals. They communicated clearly and taught the subject in a way that I retained much of the information and also was able to really understand the concepts rather than plain memorizing them. A couple of the professors have been teaching at Santa Clara for many years and had some stale information.

Most of the Professors that I have had were very good and very knowledgeable about the subject and industry they covered. There have been a few who were more academic and failed to bring real world experience into their teaching.

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If someone were interested in obtaining an MBA through a part-time program, I would recommend Santa Clara University because they offer many options in terms of class times, they provide excellent overall topic coverage, they have a great reputation, and they have several extraordinary professors from whom you can learn a great deal.

Santa Clara's program is one of the most respected in they Bay Area and the alumni network is great. Going to SCU expands your career options and provides you with a very thorough education. It was quite demanding, but well worth it once it was complete.