Owen Graduate School of Management
The Vanderbilt MBA curriculum features career-focused specializations, immersion learning and a seven-week modular calendar that allows students to make significant progress in their preferred areas of study before beginning summer internships by taking 6 elective courses the first year in addition to core courses. Our two-year Leadership Development Program in conjunction with the MBA uses tools to produce personalized development for each student focusing on the unique competencies that set high-potential leaders apart with students receiving individualized coaching from Executive Coaches, akin to the level of leadership training offered at Fortune 500 companies, an incredible value added. We offer a personal approach to career management, ensuring that students receive the individual attention from their personal career coach, resources and guidance required to achieve their career goals.
Offering classes, immersion activities, career treks and independent study opportunities, you can work with companies to consult, write business plans, develop strategies, and hone leadership skills. Projects have included expansion analysis, strategic plans for a new product launch, marketing strategy, business concept planning for investment and industry research. There are many international trip and exchange study options as well as career treks to other regions of the US.
The finance concentration of the MBA is STEM designated.
Program Format: Full-Time
Length of Program: 2 year
Program Structure: quarter system (seven-week "mods")
Starting Dates: July 20, 2020
Minimum years of work experience: 2-3 years preferable
Application deadlines: Oct 14, 2019, Jan 6, 2020
Courses conducted in: English
Accreditation(s): AACSB
Ranking(s):
AIGAC MBA Applicant Survey - #1 How Well the School Got to Know Applicants (2019)
Financial Times #25 MBA Programs in the US (2020)
Economist - #22 among US schools (#29 globally) (2019)
U.S. News & World Report - #29 Best Business School (2019)
Princeton Review - #2 for Best Administered, #4 for Best Professors, #6 Best Campus Environment, #4 for Most Family-Friendly, #2 for Best MBA in Human Resources and #8 for Operations (2019)
Class Size: 147
Male to Female ratio: 70% / 30%
US Citizens: 86%
International students: 14%
Age Range: 23-47 years
Average Age: 28 years
Mean years of work experience: 5 years
Minimum 2 years of full time work experience preferred
undergraduate degree equivalent to a 4 yr. US bachelor's degree
on-line application
3 short answer essays and 1 impromptu video response
1 letter of recommendation
GMAT or GRE test results
IELTS (recommended minimum 7 overall) or TOEFL (recommended minimum 100 iBT) test results for applicants from countries that do not have English as an official language
Tuition fees: $58,400 per year for tuition
All expenses, including tuition and living expenses, = $85,729 per year
Over 9,500 Vanderbilt MBA alumni shaping our world.
A few global companies at which Vanderbilt MBAs are President or CEOs: Aluminum Bahrain (ALBA) | American Airlines | Baker Hughes | Coteminas Emerson | Erno Laszlo |Nasdaq | Quidsi | JFE Steel, America
