 Program length
How many months does the full-time MBA program
last? 20
Program costs
Please estimate the total direct costs
(tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program.
Resident Tuition: $81,896.00
Nonresident Tuition: $81,896.00
Expected monthly rent (based on local
averages): $1,280.00
Recommended annual budget
(Resident): $69,971.00
Recommended annual budget
(Nonresident): $69,971.00
GMATAre 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:
NA
Median GMAT score:
NA
Middle 80% range GMAT score
From: 660 to: 760
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:
NA
Mean TOEFL score of new entrants:
NA
Work experience
Postgraduate work experience (months) of
newest entering class:
Mean months of postgraduate work experience:
60
Median months of postgraduate work experience:
57
Middle 80% range postgraduate work experience
From: 29 to: 94
Percentage of new entrants with one year or
less of postgraduate work experience: 3
Age of new entrants
Mean age (rounded to nearest year): 28
Median age: 28
Middle 80% range age (years)
From 25 to 32
Application fee
Resident: $215.00
Nonresident Tuition: $215.00
Number of applications
Number of applications (admitted and denied)
to the newest class of full-time MBA entrants: 5372
Selectivity
Percent of all applicants accepted to the
class of newest full-time entrants: 17
Yield
Percent of the admitted applicants to the
class of newest full-time entrants who enrolled: 79
Re-applicants
Percent of applicants that were re-applicants
from prior years: 12
What percentage of this year's re-applicants
were accepted? 32
Wait-listed applicants
Number of applicants placed on the B-school's
wait list during the last admissions cycle:
NA
How many of those wait-listed applicants were
ultimately admitted for in the semester to which they applied?
NA
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: 49
Percent of the admitted applicants to the
newest full-time class who were interviewed: 84
MBA Essays
The following essay questions are part of the application to
Columbia Business School. In addition to learning about your
professional aspirations, the Admissions Committee hopes to gain
an understanding of your interests, values and motivations
through these essays. How you answer these essays is at your
discretion, there are no right answers and we encourage you to
answer each question thoughtfully and honestly.
Reapplicants: If you have applied to Columbia Business School
within the past year, you are required to submit only the
re-applicant essay: How have you enhanced your candidacy since
your previous application? Please detail your progress since you
last applied and reiterate your short-term and long-term goals.
Explain how the tools of the Columbia MBA will help you to meet
your goals and how you plan to participate in the Columbia
community (Recommended 750 word limit). Please write this essay
in the Essay 1 box.
Dual Degree applicants: Please address the following questions
within your response to Essay 1: Please indicate the Dual Degree
programs and schools to which you applied or intend to apply.
Please discuss how the Dual Degree will enhance your short-term
or long-term goals, and at which school you intend to begin your
studies.
If you would like to work on your application in Microsoft Word
and then paste it into the essay field, please save your
document as a text (.txt) file first. Failure to save as text
first may result in characters being truncated from the end of
your essays, so please be sure and paste in the text version of
your essay. You may also work directly in Notepad (or an
equivalent text-only editor), which will automatically save your
document as a text (.txt) file. The format may not be retained,
but this will not affect admissions decisions.
What are your short-term and long-term post-MBA goals? How will
Columbia Business School help you achieve these goals?
(Recommended 750 word limit) : *
Master Classes are the epitome of bridging the gap between
theory and practice at Columbia Business School. (View link
below) Please provide an example from your own life in which
practical experience taught you more than theory alone.
(Recommended 500 word limit) :
Please provide an example of a team failure of which you've been
a part. If given a second chance, what would you do differently?
(Recommended 500 word limit) :
(Optional) Is there any further information that you wish to
provide to the Admissions Committee? (Please use this space to
provide an explanation of any areas of concern in your academic
record or your personal history.) :
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