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FACULTY
Faculty employed by the B-school:
65

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 23
Non-Tenured: 19

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 23

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 8
Non-Tenured: 19

Minority Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 4

International Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 2

Faculty with PhDs:

Tenured: 23
Non-Tenured: 17

Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:
35  %

Faculty who have owned their own business:
14  %

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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?
Yes

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

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TEACHING/ACADEMICS
Teaching Methods:

Case Study: 30  %
Distance Learning: 0  %
Experiential Learning: 10  %
Lectures: 20  %
Simulations: 10  %
Team Projects: 20  %
Other: 10  %

Estimated number of hours per week students spend working in class and outside the classroom:
14

Teachers in the part-time program:
37

Tenured teachers in the part-time program:
19

Faculty also teaching in full-time program:
80  %

Faculty with at least five years of full-time corporate experience:
71  %

Average core class size:
25

Average elective class size:
14

Electives available:
34

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Recently added electives:
Human Resource Management in Healthcare

Last curriculum revision:
2000

Recent curriculum changes:
Four new international study-abroad (required) destination options added annually.

Concentrations and specializations offered to part-time MBAs:

Accounting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

Marketing

Other

Additional concentrations offered:
Health Care Management
Music Business

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

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Health Care Administration

Marketing

Graduation requirements:

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

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

Other:

Participate in an international experience. Completion of learning assessments.

Credits required to graduate:
34

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
Maintained planned 4-year rotation of classroom, computer lab, and faculty and staff office computers. Expanded statistical software available for faculty research. Began renovations to computer lab teaching classrooms. Expanded number of wireless carts with notebook computers for classroom use. Installed ConVa media control system in most teaching classrooms. Upgraded computer lab print management system. Expanded online resources for Career Development Office.

Amount spent:
$  385,089

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Living MBA alumni:
1,406

Active MBA alumni clubs:
1

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:
1

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:
14  %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:
$  123

Median gift from MBA alumni:
$  50

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

Business school endowment
$  14,884,720

  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://alumni.belmont.edu

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

Business school alumni networking site:
http://www.linkedin.com (Belmont University Massey Graduate School of Business

  Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?
No

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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

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The program offers a large number of electives. I was looking for courses in Finance, and I was able to complete seven courses (41% of the courses) in Finance and Accounting. Most other programs have a set curriculum with a minimal number of electives.

Belmont did an excellent job of fostering community among the students--they also did a great job of making classes and events very convenient for working students.

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Many of the faculty came from the business world before they decided to become professors. They have real world, applicable experience to bring to the classroom, not just theories and what they've read in books or observed.

I would have liked more flexibility for students that might have to miss class because a business trip conflicted with the class schedule. For example, if a student misses two classes, they are penalized a letter grade. The school should offer additional work for students or not penalize them for tending to their business responsibilities.

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The nature of Belmont's approach to education makes the Massey Graduate School of Business classroom experience rather intimate and personal. I always felt like my faculty members knew my name and were interested in seeing me succeed.

Perhaps my favorite feature of the Massey MBA at Belmont is the fact that as an alum we can audit classes (for free!) for personal/professional development and additional skill set acquisition even after we've graduated. This is a tremendous benefit because it allows students to circle back and benefit from some classes they may not have been able to take during their particular program.