Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)

Business School Overview

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Ranking score and category

Rank Category Name #21 Best Business Schools

Specialties Locked in Executive MBA Locked in Finance #16 in Part-time MBA

Business School Overview

The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis offers graduate programs in these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, health care administration, human resources management, international business, leadership, marketing, not-for-profit management, production/operations management, organizational behavior, portfolio management, and supply chain management/logistics. Its tuition is full-time: $47,800 per year; part-time: $1,400 per credit; and executive: $104,600 total program. At graduation, 79.0 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.

At the Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School, M.B.A. students are taught a core curriculum and then specialize in one of four Career Platforms. The platforms—Consulting & General Management; Corporate Finance & Investments; Marketing; and Operations & Supply Chain Management—are each made up of concentrations, so students can further cater their education to their career aspirations. Students can combine their M.B.A. with a master of architecture, urban design, biomedical engineering, East Asian studies, social work, or public health, or they can complete a combined M.B.A./J.D.

The school also has master’s degree programs for finance, supply chain management, and accounting, as well as Ph.D. programs. The Olin Business School offers a Professional M.B.A. program held in the evenings and an Executive M.B.A. program that runs during weekends in St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., and Shanghai.

There are several research centers on campus, including the Institute for Innovation and Growth and the Boeing Center for Technology, Information, and Manufacturing, which is sponsored in part by Boeing Co. Each year, student teams participate in the Olin Cup Competition, which has prizes of up to $50,000 for winning business ideas. Students can complete three-week to semester-long study abroad exchange programs in England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Spain, and Venezuela. In St. Louis, graduate students may live in university-owned apartment complexes, but most choose to find their own housing.

Admissions

Application deadline (U.S. residents)	April 1
Application deadline (international students)	April 1
Applicants (full-time)
Applicants (part-time)

Academics

Departments/concentrations

accounting leadership consulting marketing entrepreneurship not-for-profit management finance production/operations management general management organizational behavior health care administration portfolio management human resources management supply chain management/logistics international business other

Student Body

Enrollment (full-time)	279
Gender distribution (full-time)

Cost

Tuition
Full-time: $47,800 per year Part-time: $1,400 per credit Executive: $104,600 total program
Required fees (full-time and part-time)	$1,100 per year
Required fees (executive degree program)	$0

Salary

Average base salary	$94,762
Full-time graduates employed at graduation	79.0%

* Business School Overview details based on 2012 data