Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Admissions E-mail : mba-admissions@andrew.cmu.edu
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Tepper Graduate School of Industrial Administration MBA admissions profiles, including tuition, scholarship, mean scores, months of working experience, waitlisted, and reapplication statistics.

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Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) MBA Program

Tepper School of BusinessProgram length

How many months does the full-time MBA program last? 21

Program costs

Please estimate the total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program.

Resident Tuition: $84,576.00

Nonresident Tuition: $84,576.00

Expected monthly rent (based on local averages): $700.00

Recommended annual budget (Resident): $13,500.00

Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $13,500.00

GMAT

Are applicants required to take the GMAT as part of applying to your program? Yes

If not, how are applicants' quantitative abilities checked before enrollment?

NA

GMAT score of newest entering class:

Mean GMAT score: 696

Median GMAT score: 700

Middle 80% range GMAT score

From: 620 to: 750

TOEFL

Are applicants whose native language is not English required to take the TOEFL as part of applying to your program? Yes

Minimum TOEFL score required for MBAs: 600

Mean TOEFL score of new entrants: 640

Work experience

Postgraduate work experience (months) of newest entering class:

Mean months of postgraduate work experience: 52

Median months of postgraduate work experience: 48

Middle 80% range postgraduate work experience

From: 12 to: 84

Percentage of new entrants with one year or less of postgraduate work experience: 10

Age of new entrants

Mean age (rounded to nearest year): 28

Median age: 28

Middle 80% range age (years)

From 24 to 33

Application fee

Resident: $100.00

Nonresident Tuition: $100.00

Number of applications

Number of applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class of full-time MBA entrants: 1144

Selectivity

Percent of all applicants accepted to the class of newest full-time entrants: 29

Yield

Percent of the admitted applicants to the class of newest full-time entrants who enrolled: 42

Re-applicants

Percent of applicants that were re-applicants from prior years: 6

What percentage of this year's re-applicants were accepted? 17

Wait-listed applicants

Number of applicants placed on the B-school's wait list during the last admissions cycle: 100

How many of those wait-listed applicants were ultimately admitted for in the semester to which they applied? 20

Applicant interviews

Interviews are:

By invitation only

Percentage of all applicants (admitted and denied) to the class of newest full-time entrants who were interviewed: NA

Percent of the admitted applicants to the newest full-time class who were interviewed: NA

MBA Essays

A. What are your short-term and long-term goals? How will a Tepper MBA help you to achieve these goals. (Please include any information regarding what steps you have taken to learn more about Tepper.)

B. The Tepper School’s culture relies on all members to be active contributors to our community. How will you contribute to the Tepper community? Please feel free to include examples from the past or ideas for the future.

C. Please answer two of the following three questions or statements. Please clearly specify which questions you are answering. Your two answers should equal a total of two pages or less.

  1. Describe an obstacle you have faced in your professional or academic life. How did you overcome this obstacle and how did it foster your development?
  2. Describe a time in which your ethics were challenged. How did you deal with the situation and what did you learn from it?
  3. One thing people would be surprised to know about me is . . .

D. Is there anything additional that you think we should know as we evaluate your application? Note: if you believe your credentials and essays represent you fairly, you should not feel obligated to answer this question. This essay is intended to provide a place for you to add information that you think is important but is not covered elsewhere in the application.

You must complete this essay if you answered “yes” to the additional information questions on the previous page.

 


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