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CLASS OFFERINGS
Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class:
25

Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class:
12

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:
2

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2009:
Issues in Commercial Real Estate
Commercial Real Estate Finance & Investment

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:
1999

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

International Business

Marketing

Supply Chain Management

N/A

Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

MBA/JD (Law)

MBA/MD (Medicine)

Other

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

The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

Marketing

Supply Chain Management

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FACULTY
Faculty employed by the B-school:
70

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 28
Non-Tenured: 31

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 11

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 4
Non-Tenured: 19

Minority Faculty:

Tenured: 23
Non-Tenured: 35

International Faculty:

Tenured: 0
Non-Tenured: 3

Faculty with PhDs:

Tenured: 28
Non-Tenured: 32

Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:
33  %

Faculty who have owned their own business:
20  %

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STUDENT LIFE
Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Consulting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Marketing

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Black MBA Association

Hispanic Student Organization

International Club

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TEACHING/ACADEMICS
Teaching methods used:

Case Study: 35  %
Distance Learning: 4  %
Experiential Learning: 5  %
Lectures: 18  %
Simulations: 8  %
Team Projects: 30  %

Requirements for graduation:

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

Other:

Additional graduation requirements:
Students are required to attend 80% of the Leadership Development Series throughtout their matriculation in the MBA Program

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
Smart Classroom Upgrades; Trading Room Upgrades; Three New Smart Classrooms; Ten Big Screen Communications Monitors; Upgrades to Faculty Computers; Instructional Computer Lab Upgrades.

Amount spent:
$  633,520

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Living MBA alumni:
1,396

Active MBA alumni clubs:
1

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:
1

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:
6  %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:
$  211

Median gift from MBA alumni:
$  100

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

Business school endowment
$  6,472,304

  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.howard.edu/alumni/alumni.htm

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

Business school alumni networking site:
http://www.bschool.howard.edu/HUSBAlumni/husbalumni.html

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

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CAREER SERVICES
Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 79  %
Graduates not seeking employment: 17  %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 4  %

Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

Destination: National Black MBA Association Annual Conference
Month: September
Amount Paid By School: Full (30 students)
Destination: National Society of Hispanic MBA Conference
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: Full
Destination: Wall Street
Month: November
Amount Paid By School: Full
Destination: Institute of Supply Chain Management Conference
Month: May
Amount Paid By School: Full

Primary source of job offer:

School-facilitated activities: 74  %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 26  %

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Companies that recruited second-year MBAs on campus in 2008-09:
40

Companies that posted full-time job offers for MBAs
on the school's job boards in 2008-09:
55

Job Offers for 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 48  %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 7  %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0  %
Did not report having received a job offer: 45  %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 48  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 7  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 4  %

Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

Intel   2
Unilever   2
FBI   2
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Felo, LLP   1
American Express   1
Booz Allen Hamilton   1
Cisco   1
Dell   1
Exxon Mobil   1
IBM   1
Kraft Foods   1
Proctor & Gamble   1
State Street Corp.   1
Terex Corp.   1
Tyco   1

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Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:
61  %

Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Mean base salary: $  91,447
Median base salary: $  90,000
Mean signing bonus: $  15,286
Median signing bonus: $  13,250
Mean other guaranteed compensation: $  11,615
Median other guaranteed compensation: $  11,000

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 9  %
Finance/Accounting: 31  %
General Management: 4  %
Human Resources: 4  %
Marketing/Sales: 17  %
Operations/Logistics: 31  %
Other: 4  %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Government: 18  %
Consulting: 9  %
Consumer Products: 22  %
Financial Services: 9  %
Manufacturing: 4  %
Non-Profit: 4  %
Petroleum/Energy: 4  %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 4  %
Real Estate: 4  %
Technology: 18  %
Other: 5  %

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Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

North America: 100  %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Northeast: 31  %
Mid-Atlantic: 39  %
South: 4  %
Southwest: 4  %
Midwest: 9  %
West: 13  %

Companies that recruited MBAs for internships on campus in 2008-09:
40

Companies that posted internships for MBAs on school job boards in 2008-09:
55

Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

Cisco   2
Dell   2
Intel   2
AT&T   1
Bank of America   1
Citi   1
FDIC   1
FMC Technologies   1
JPMorgan Chase   1
Keller & Heckman LLP   1
Securities & Exchange Commission   1
SPG & Consultants, Inc.   1
Unilever   1
Verizon   1
W.W. Grainger   1

Internships awarded that are paid:
100  %

Weekly internship compensation:

        Mean: $ 1,568
        Median: $ 1,558

Average internship length in weeks:
12