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 Table of Contents
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Welcome
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Academics
Career Academies
> Marketing 8
> Finance 12
At Tippie, you’ll develop the skills, knowledge, and connections that will propel > Strategic Innovation 16
you forward through the 21st century’s global business environment. Consulting Opportunities 20

But the Tippie MBA is about more than education. Global Business 22
Alumni Network 24
It’s about transformation. It’s about changing your outlook, your abilities, your Career Services 26
expectations. The decades ahead will be a period of tremendous change, brimming
with opportunities for those who have prepared themselves to spot them, seize them, Iowa City 28
and shape them. Visit Campus 30
Program Details 31
At Tippie, that’s the person you will become—a global business leader who not only
welcomes new worlds but who brings them into being. A professional who performs
with integrity, innovation, and impact.

The Tippie MBA. Something’s about to change...

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 “What will I learn?” “Who will I connect with?”
“How will I land a summer internship?”
You have a hundred questions about business school, but ultimately, one
of them trumps all: “What will I achieve?”

The answer: a lot. Tippie alumni occupy key positions at prominent organiza-
tions around the globe. At Fortune 500s and at early-phase start-ups—in
Kalamazoo, California, and Calcutta—our alumni are making the decisions
that propel their companies forward in the global economy.

And they’re being rewarded for their achievements. Tippie graduates, on

average, more than double their pre-MBA salaries in their first job, giving the
Tippie MBA one of BusinessWeek’s top rankings for return on investment.

At Tippie, you’ll discover your strengths. You’ll build on them, leverage

them. You’ll become a leader who motivates people, generates ideas,
builds organizations. You’ll begin forging routes to success that will change
you, your company, your world.

At Tippie, we define our success by your success.

Which takes us back to that original question:
What will you achieve?
Matt Lane
Managing Director of U.S.
Sales, Media & Entertainment

your resu
Hewlett Packard
“Bringing big change to an established
industry takes vision, innovation,
planning, and implementation. Those
are precisely the skills you develop at
Tippie—inside the classroom and out.”

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 Cara Wick
Senior Financial Analyst
Intel
“Tippie gave me the confidence
to boldly engage and take risks.
I was required not only to know
the theory and perform the
analysis but also to put myself
out there—to demonstrate that
knowledge in front of faculty,
classmates, and consulting clients.
I was able to hit the ground running
in my new position because I was
taught what a business leader is
and how to be one.”

Cara’s Accomplishments
Cara has already made a big impact
at Intel. She received the company’s
“Hot Stuff” award for creating a new
high-efficiency ordering process
that added more than $3 million
to Intel’s bottom line. Cutting-edge
inventory management principles
from Cara’s MBA class in Operations
Management were the genesis of
the project.

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 Like the world’s best companies, at Tippie,
we focus on our strengths.
And like Apple, FedEx, and Southwest Airlines, focusing on what we do best has
allowed us to build programs renowned for their depth and innovation.

What makes the Tippie MBA curriculum so singularly valuable? Our career
academies. You’ll choose an academy and track after your first semester:

Marketing Career Academy—Managing Customers, Products, and Brands

Finance Career Academy—Corporate Finance or Investment Management

Strategic Innovation Career Academy—Strategic Management of Innovation
or Process Excellence

And whichever academy you select, you’re in for a unique academic experience that
melds rigorous coursework with real-world client responsibilities and success-driven
skills development.

How do the academies transform you into an expert in your field? As a member
of the Marketing Academy, you may staff a consulting project for a Fortune 500
consumer products company, visit with executives from a global advertising
powerhouse, and compete in a national case competition. In the Finance Academy,
you might study fixed income derivatives, write a sales points memorandum for an
equity offering, or meet with Warren Buffett. In the Strategic Innovation Academy,
you may apply leading-edge manufacturing technologies to healthcare delivery,
earn your Six Sigma green belt, and learn how to put it all together in an attention-
getting résumé.
Colleen Downie
Assistant Dean
Tippie School of Management
At Tippie, you won’t just learn about your
specialty—you’ll learn how to succeed in it.

your found
Jay Sa-Aadu
Associate Dean
Tippie School of Management

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 What’s the core of the Tippie value proposition?
More of what readies you for success:
• Hit the ground running—By the end of your two years at Tippie, you’ll have
Leadership, Strategy & Professional
done more work in the field—analyzing real-life business problems and
implementing strategic solutions—than in other MBA programs. You won’t Development
just know how to handle business challenges in theory. You’ll know how to
Applications
handle them...period. in Business
International

• Hit the ground running faster—To convert your summer internship into
Immersions Strategic Innovation Integration

a full-time offer, you have to perform. You have to add more value more Academy
quickly than the MBA student from another school in the next office. At Strategic Management Process
Tippie, we prepare you to do just that. You’ll complete your foundation Leadership of Innovation Excellence Strategic
courses in the first 16 weeks. That means you’ll progress to concentration Development Foundation Business
courses, consulting projects, and custom-tailored career skills development and Finance Consulting
Coaching Finance Marketing Marketing
well before your summer internship. The bottom line: real value for your
employer and a dramatic increase in marketability for you. Career Accounting Career
Academy Economics
Operations Academy
• Stretch globally—At Tippie, international exposure is not an option; it’s Alumni Professional
Management
a core component of our academic experience. Through international and Business Corporate and Career
Law, Ethics, Sustainability Managing
immersion trips, consulting projects, exchange opportunities, coursework, Network Finance Development
Data and Decisions Customers,
and more, you’ll be exposed to the global economy from the day you first Project Management Products,
step into the classroom until the day you cross the stage in your cap and Investment and
gown. Management Brands
Business
Foundation
• Learn to lead—In today’s market, corporations expect the entire package Skills
in a new hire: the functional knowledge that MBA programs have always Development
specialized in and the soft skills that are critical to effective leadership.
Those skills are not just an add-on to the Tippie MBA; they’re at the very
heart of our career academies. Through individualized development, Career Skills
Development
communications coaching, exposure to best-in-class executives, and
opportunities to direct teams and student organizations, you’ll prepare for
a future in the leadership ranks of the 21st century. Leadership Skills
Development
And the Tippie value proposition isn’t just about value. It’s about values. We’ve built
our MBA program on a culture of integrity and social responsibility, a culture that
we charge our students with upholding. It’s a belief that ethics aren’t ancillary to
business growth and stability. They’re the foundation of leadership and long-term
success. Your foundation.

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Graduation

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 Whether it’s cars or credit cards, green
technology or toothpaste, today’s consumers
have more choices than ever before.
The result is that companies have to be more innovative to
maintain their relevance and drive success. Marketers must
work faster, even when uncertainty is certain. They must work
smarter and choose the right mix of available marketing
strategies and vehicles.

Managing Customers, Products, and Brands in the Marketing

Bart Hendryx Career Academy builds your foundation in strategic decision-
Senior Marketing Manager making. Tippie grads put these skills to use to become global
ConAgra Foods marketing leaders in brand, product, category, customer, or
general marketing management careers.
“If there’s a career that combines
management, entrepreneurship,
and leadership, it’s brand management. How will two years at Tippie ready you
Leading Healthy Choice or Orville
Redenbacher is as much about your for a high-profile marketing career?
passion for the business as your
passion for the consumer. Tippie’s Let’s take a peek...
marketing program nurtured creative
thinking, honed my analytical skills,

your focus:
and provided opportunities in
leadership—and that’s enabled me
to help our brands succeed in
extremely competitive categories.”

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 > Biotech company Genentech tapped marketing Professor
John Murry to help develop a pricing strategy for Lucentis,
its drug to treat a leading cause of blindness. Murry poses
the question to his class: how should the drug be priced?

He explains that companies frequently make the mistake of

going to market with too low a price. “If your profit margin is
10% and you make a 1% error in pricing, you’ve left 10% of
your potential profit on the table.” For Lucentis, the pricing
approach looked at opportunity cost—the cost of long-term
care and the earnings impact from a patient going blind—as
well as the pricing of other products in the market. The timely
case helps students in Murry’s Product Management class
develop their understanding of pricing as a critical element
in marketing.

> Hormel Foods hired a Tippie MBA team to identify a target

country and develop a comprehensive rollout strategy for
the company’s flagship SPAM product in Europe.

Tippie students researched consumer behavior, market size,

competition, category makeup, and other factors in a number
of European countries. After narrowing the candidates to Katie Funk
Spain, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, a team was
dispatched to each for a week of field research. Hormel is Marketing Student
currently evaluating the students’ final report, including their
ultimate recommendation to launch the product in Spain. Like many Tippie students, Katie
uses extracurricular activities to build
her career skills. As president of the
Graduate Marketing Association,
Katie initiated and helped lead MBA
> Laura Desmond, CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group, asked
trips to five major companies. And
a select group of Tippie students to present strategies for Tippie’s ‘Winter in India’ program
marketing Sprite—one of the firm’s major accounts—to the gave Katie a firsthand look at the
12- to 18-year-old market. The proposal: traveling lounges challenges associated with brand
where teens can drink Sprite while browsing the internet.
management in emerging markets.

marketing
Katie credits activities both in and
outside the classroom with helping
her secure her internship with
Campbell’s Soup Company.

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 Iowa Electronic
Markets
Can economists’ tools help companies
forecast sales?
Tippie’s Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) has become famous for pre-
dicting the results of the last six presidential elections—including the
Obama-McCain contest—more accurately than public opinion polls.

Now Marketing Professor Tom Gruca is applying IEM’s prediction

markets technology to help movie producers forecast box office
receipts. MBA students compare IEM results to those generated
by surveys and analytical models. The results will allow studios to
better allocate marketing resources among their projects.

Bet you wish you’d known that before you bought your tickets to
Daddy Day Care.

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your focus:
Iowa Electronic Market
 John Murry
Marketing Professor
While consulting for Mohawk
Industries on the development
of a new flooring product, Professor
John Murry, a partner in the market
research firm Brandware Group,
exposed some of the biases in
standard concept testing approaches.

Focus groups overwhelmingly

rejected the company’s new
product proposal—when it was
presented in written format. When
photos were shown, about half
liked the product. But when the
customers could actually feel and
test the product, more than 90%
had a favorable impression.

Murry’s subsequent research

examines just how customer
perceptions about new product
concepts are affected by the format
in which they are presented. This
research will reduce the likelihood
of a company killing a good product
concept too early—or investing too
much in a non-viable one.

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 Career Academy
The financial landscape is undergoing
changes of historic proportion.
But even as mountains are crumbling, new ones are being
pushed up. Businesses will always need capital, and future
leaders will need to display greater adaptability and vision
than ever before. Tippie’s Finance Career Academy offers two
distinct tracks to prepare students for the challenges ahead.

Corporate Finance is designed to develop next-generation

financial analysts, managers, and executives for U.S. and
global enterprises.

Todd Nelson Investment Management prepares students for careers in

Associate asset management, investment banking, private wealth,
Goldman Sachs alternative investments, and other areas within the financial
services industry.
“Wall Street is a very competitive
environment. Thriving here is even
harder than getting here, and to do it, What will your days in the Finance
you have to be able to adapt quickly
to new markets, new situations, new
Career Academy look like?
people, new paradigms. Serving as
the MBA Association president
enhanced my adaptability; it helped
Here’s an insider’s view...

your focus:
me learn to deal with different people
and multiple agendas. It had a major
impact on my ability to succeed at
Goldman Sachs.”

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 > In 2005 and 2006, Pfizer paid its CEO about $20 million
a year—and dismissed him with a $200 million severance
package—all while the company’s stock underperformed
by more than 20%. Professor Matt Billett poses the challenge
to his Managerial Finance class: how do you create fair
compensation packages that properly align executive pay
with corporate goals?

Students discover that the most effective solutions are found

at the intersection of corporate finance and psychology.
They rely on packages that recognize both “the rules of the
game”—the explicit and implied contractual relationships
between stockholders, lenders, employees, and others—and
the complexities of human behavior—how individuals respond
to specific incentives.

Students use this approach to model compensation packages

for CEOs of companies they choose to research. Each proposal
is vetted by the class.

> A student consulting team was engaged by a full-service

broker-dealer to assess the viability of creating a regional
small- and mid-cap equities fund.

The students developed and applied a methodology for

evaluating the investment worthiness of smaller companies
overlooked by Wall Street. The Tippie team met with senior
management of several target companies and produced a
series of investment research reports now being distributed
nationally.
> Why not talk finance with those who are actually in the
trenches every day?
Tippie second-year Joe McSpadden did just that. He sat down
with Fidelity portfolio manager Andy Sassine to discuss the
effects of emerging market economics on U.S. equities.
Sassine was on campus to update students on the current
Iana Stahov
Finance Student
In less than 30 days, MBA student Iana
Stahov spent a day with Warren Buffett
during a leadership development trip
to Omaha, walked to the on-campus
taping of CNBC’s Mad Money with
Jim Cramer, and visited with Fidelity
Developing Business COO Roger

finance
market conditions as part of the Pearson Lecture Series. Servison before his presentation to
Tippie MBAs. Says Iana, “This is
starting to feel more like Wall Street
than Market Street.”

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 Henry Fund
Real-world Finance
Students in Applied Securities Management serve as sector analysts
and portfolio managers for the $1.5 million Henry Fund. Led by
Professor Todd Houge, students research companies, create
valuation models, analyze industries and economies, and make
investment decisions.

They also perform the administrative tasks of portfolio management

such as reviewing the fund with outside donor investors and producing
the annual report.

Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money paid a visit to a recent Henry

Fund class to discuss the outlook for the U.S. economy and world
markets. And Henry Fund alumni are regular contributors to both
CNBC and other financial media. “The class was an eye-opener,”
says Tippie student Bill Aldridge, a Henry Fund analyst who was
recently featured in BusinessWeek. “Anyone can do well in a bull
market, but it’s times like these when the fundamental analysis
techniques we learned are clearly the key to success.”

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your focus:
 Erik Lie
Finance Professor
Through the dot-com boom, bust,
and beyond, Professor Erik Lie
noted an unexpected phenomenon:
companies’ stock values frequently
increased after they issued stock
options to their executives. His
research revealed a practice
called stock option backdating
that spawned a Wall Street Journal
exposé, regulatory investigations,
and ultimately indictments against
corporate execs.

Professor Lie was named to Time

Magazine’s 100 Most Influential
People list and Forbes termed Lie’s
discovery the “scandal of the year.”

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 Career Academy
Name a successful company where
innovation isn’t important.
Exactly.
Tippie’s Strategic Innovation Academy is a cutting-edge
program that operates at the intersection of innovation
and strategy. It features two tracks.

Strategic Management of Innovation prepares students

for leadership roles within innovation-centric companies.
Graduates work in technology and consulting as well as
in the industrial, retail, and service sectors.
Jennifer Johnston-Torrez
Account Manager Process Excellence is targeted toward students planning
careers in process and productivity management, and
Healthcare Services it is built on Tippie’s renowned expertise in applying
General Electric Lean principles.

“GE Healthcare provides cutting edge

technologies and solutions that are Want to know more?
redefining patient care in the health-
care industry. For us to succeed and
keep innovating at such a fast pace,
Take a look...
our organization needs individuals

your focus:
with the business acumen to make
sound decisions in a complex and
dynamic environment. These are
skills Tippie helped me to develop.”

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 > Students in Professor Ann Campbell’s Operations
Management class discuss a plan she helped develop to
adopt airline-style dynamic pricing to purchase delivery
options offered by online retailers.

Managing demand well boosts profitability while improving

customer satisfaction, and students learn how to meld
cutting-edge logistics with consumer behavior research to
build strategies for long-range success.

> A high-visibility technology company faced declining

revenues for its premier B2B product. The MBA consult-
ing team identified the problem as a strategic one: the
company focused too much of its effort on gaining clients
in areas where they had no competitive advantage.

The Tippie team recommended redirecting to a less

capital-intensive market segment that better leveraged
the company’s strengths and demanded fewer economies
of scale. The students provided senior management
with specific strategies to capture market share in this
new segment.
Eliot Weiner
Strategic Innovation Student
Tippie student Eliot Weiner converted
his summer internship at Fortune 500
> Ever wonder what it takes to drive a long-range
globalization strategy at one of the world’s largest
company United Stationers into a
companies? full-time position leading one of the
company’s business development
John Rice, Vice Chairman of GE and CEO of GE Infrastructure, teams. Eliot credits his Strategic
explained just that over lunch with Tippie students prior to
Business Consulting class—where

strategy
his Knapp Leadership Series presentation.
he worked with a team to develop a
business expansion plan and present it
to the board—with driving his ability to
communicate with top-level executives.

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 Process Excellence
and SMI Consulting
Who Says You Have to Go to Medical
School to Save Lives?
Tippie MBA students joined the Continuous Improvement Team
of a major eastern Iowa hospital to address a challenging problem:
Why were there delays in processing doctors’ orders in the cardiac/
stroke lab? The team initiated a value stream mapping effort
to understand the process and establish appropriate metrics.

They ultimately identified two key issues affecting the process

flow: batching of patient charts by doctors and duplication of effort
resulting from hand-written orders. While critical orders had always
been expedited, improvements such as having doctors work one
chart at a time and entering orders electronically cut execution time
down to target levels.

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your focus:
 Jeff Ohlmann
Management Sciences Professor
The physics of a curve ball isn’t the
only place where sports and science
happen to intersect.

Management Sciences Professor

Jeff Ohlmann, who teaches Data and
Decisions in the MBA program, is one
of the first to study sports league
drafts from a scholarly perspective.
His decision-making model—built
in part on data from fantasy football
drafts—helps teams overcome the
handicap of not knowing what players
will be available for drafting in later
rounds. NFL and NBA teams are now
using similar analyses to guide
personnel decisions and overall
game strategy.

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Rob Johnston
Tippie MBA Student
The Business Solutions Center
provides Rob with opportunities
to immediately apply the skills he
learns in class to real-time corporate
problems. “Working under demanding
deadlines—plus the fact that major
decision makers are really invested
in our project—helps to recreate
the pressures of a real-world
consulting environment. I credit
the skills I learned here with
helping me get accepted to AEGON’s
renowned Leadership Development
Program after my internship.”
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The Business Solutions Center
A guide for MBA students’ hands-on experiences.
At Tippie, we pair classroom learning with real-world consulting to foster
unparalled professional preparation in all three of our career academies.
Led by leaders within the world’s most prominent consulting firms, the Business
Solutions Center (BSC) delivers professional growth that differs markedly from
other “experiential learning” programs. How?
Focus on relationship management—Business isn’t only about finance or
operations or marketing. Business is about relationships. And learning to
manage those relationships—with clients, colleagues, supervisors, and others—
is vital to career success.
Do students sometimes fail to meet clients’ expectations? You bet. But then
they learn how to go back to the client, better understand expectations, and
begin rebuilding trust.
“It’s a tough process,” says BSC Director Richard Boulger. “It’s supposed to be.”
Continuous guidance—Business school consulting projects are often
hampered by a difficult truth: when no one is getting paid, expectations
are low. Clients tend to push oversight to low-level managers. Projects get
bogged down on trivial issues.
We manage our consulting engagements differently. BSC staff work with teams
to define scope and schedule, advise on relationship management, monitor
progress, and focus on providing value-added deliverables. The result: students
do real work. And clients get real results.
There’s no chalkboard in this classroom.
your clie
But the learning? It’s very real.
 Eileen Finnegan
Managing Consultant, TIAA-CREF
Business Solutions Center Client
“Our Tippie consulting project had a
clear goal from day one. We sought
to double the participation in our retire-
ment plan at a large institutional client.

“To do this, the Tippie MBA team

designed and administered a survey
which offered insights into the saving
habits of those who were not enrolled
in the plan. Those insights enabled
TIAA-CREF, which provides financial
services to the retirement plan, to tailor
its message to that audience.

“The team contributed significantly

to our success in achieving TIAA-CREF’s
overarching goal: meeting the long-term
financial needs of the people and
institutions we serve.”

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 Tippie alumni will be an active
part of your MBA experience from
the day you arrive in Iowa City.
Kathleen Dore They serve as mentors, return to campus to meet
President, TV & Radio
CanWest MediaWorks, Inc. with current students, draw new Tippie MBAs into
their companies, and utilize their own networks to
expand career opportunities. It’s an approach that
grows out of Iowa’s strong sense of community,
and it has contributed markedly to our students’
Rogelio Rebolledo Michael Albert placement success.
Retired President & CEO
Senior Corporate Credit Analyst
Pepsi Bottling Group, Mexico
Voyager Asset Mangement
At Tippie, our alumni network
opens doors.
YOU Are you ready to walk through them?

Adia May Darcy Hala

Director of Business Meetings & Incentive Trips Manager
& Legal Affairs BMW
Codeblack Entertainment

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Todd Smith
Co-Founder & CEO
C4 Communications

John Hall
Founder & CEO
Goose Island Beer Co.
Valery Salyamov
CFO, VP Strategic Planning
Volia Cable

your
 Rob Van Auken
Senior Manager—Finance
Best Buy
“I can’t say enough good things
about the Tippie alumni I worked
with. The network may not be the
biggest in the country, but based on
my conversations with associates
from other schools, it’s definitely one
of the most engaged—especially in
terms of early-stage interaction
with students.”

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 MBA Career Services
Vice President, Marketing. Senior Vice President, Americas.
Controller. CEO.
Whatever the title on your business card will ultimately be—whatever your career
goals are—the road to your destination won’t necessarily be straight and smooth.
In fact, portions of it are likely to feel like the unpredictable Sedona switchbacks.

Tippie’s MBA Career Services team is here to help you build that first bridge back
to the workplace, and they’ll be there to guide you through future professional
transitions. Tippie’s ratio of career services staff to students is among the highest in
the nation. Through one-on-one coaching, Competitive Prep courses, placements and
referrals, a wealth of recruiting resources, and highly personalized service, the Career
Services team enhances your marketability and job search success. And BusinessWeek
agrees, ranking Tippie’s career services program 27th in the nation.

Whatever industry you’re going into, whatever your strengths

are—whatever you’re going to be known for—Tippie’s Career
Services team will help you learn to market your most
Nicolle Elsasser Thompson important asset: yourself.
Merchandiser
Lowe’s
“My Career Services partners were
more like consultants and marketers

your des
than career counselors. They helped
me hone my interviewing skills,
enhance my negotiation techniques,
and improve my networking ease.
The close collaboration helped me
focus my career plans and ultimately
succeed in my job search.”

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 How We Market You
At Tippie, career success is our priority. From the minute you step
foot on campus, your partnership with the MBA Career Services
team will prepare you for the road ahead.

CAREER EXPERT
You’ll be partnered with a Career Lead specific to your
academy. This person will become your coach and mentor,
unswervingly guiding you toward your career goals.

ON-CAMPUS PARTNERS
Each year, companies come to campus for information sessions,
networking, and interviews. Tippie’s Career Services team actively
engages with employers throughout this process to ensure that
Tippie MBAs remain highly visible and highly prized.

DIRECT REFERRALS
On-campus recruiting is augmented by Tippie’s Corporate
Development team, which focuses on building partnerships with
a broad universe of companies. This personalized approach—
where individual candidates are referred directly to a company—
consistently gives Tippie MBAs a spot at the table.

CONSORTIUM EVENTS
Tippie students participate in national MBA career fairs each fall.
These events are a great way to explore employment opportunities,
interview with recruiters, and learn more about companies seeking
MBA talent. A number of Tippie students make connections that
lead to internship and full-time offers with companies such as
Johnson & Johnson, Wells Fargo, Kraft, and Campbell’s.

TIPPIE ALUMNI NETWORK

With the click of a mouse, you can access contact information
for hundreds of accomplished Tippie alumni, all of whom have
expressly offered to serve as a resource for current students.

estiny
We also host “Tippie Table Talks” in major cities to provide
students with another platform to connect with successful alumni.

COMPETITIVE PREP
Successfully navigating the job search requires proficiency in
interviewing and other soft skills in addition to technical training.
Through Tippie’s Career Prep courses, you will receive in-depth
training in how to stand out from the competition.

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 In the last year alone, just minutes from Tippie’s
classrooms, students could see Mamma Mia!
performed by the Broadway cast; hear Joshua
Redman and Three Dog Night at outdoor concerts
on the Pentacrest; attend a major conference on
commercialization of biotechnology; watch a
comedy revue from The Second City at the Englert
Theatre; climb an indoor rock wall; meet every
major candidate in the 2008 Presidential race in
person; shop at Banana Republic; drink a latté at
Starbucks; watch a Big Ten football game; go
cross-country skiing; and eat sushi at four different
Japanese restaurants.

True, Iowa City is not L.A.

In L.A., you’d have to drive.
#1 Creative Writing, UI Writers’ Workshop
U.S. News & World Report
#2 Best Small Metro for Business and Careers
Forbes
#2 Small Metro Economy
The Milken Institute

#2 Most Livable State

Morgan Quinto Publishing

#3 Most Educated Metro Area

USA Today

#5 Best Metro Area for Companies

to Relocate or Expand

your sur
Expansion Management

#9 College of Medicine: Primary

Care and Research
U.S. News & World Report

(Tippie MBA rankings found in enclosed insert at back of book.)

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 Start Your Transformation Today
That wide open expanse in front of you is your future coming into
view. Apply today and let the Tippie MBA take you there.
The process is fast, easy, and convenient. Call one of our admissions professionals,
check our website for recruiting events in cities nationwide, or complete your
application online.

We’ll also be happy to schedule a visit and show you firsthand how the Tippie MBA
program can sharpen your business skills, broaden your perspective, and acceler-
ate your career growth. We’ll arrange it all: one-on-one meetings with faculty in
your area of interest, a visit to a live MBA class, a campus tour, lunch with students,
the admissions interview, a consultation with Career Services, even complimentary
lodging and parking.

Come visit, and start bringing your future into focus.

Something’s about to change... your life.

Apply online:
http://tippie.uiowa.edu/fulltimeMBA/apply

Register for a campus visit:

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/fulltimeMBA/visit

Call: 800-MBA-IOWA / Email: tippiemba@uiowa.edu

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A Tippie degree will open lots of doors, but it’s about a whole lot more. It’s about integrity, because people are only as good as their word.
It’s about innovation, and understanding the underpinnings of new products, processes, and businesses. And it’s about impact, the kind
your Tippie experience will have on you so that you’re equipped to change the world after graduation. Integrity. Innovation. Impact.
It’s the Tippie way. It’s your way—forward.

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Something’s about to change... your life.

Henry B. Tippie School of Management / The University of Iowa / 100 Pomerantz Center, Suite C432 / Iowa City, Iowa 52242-7700
319.335.1039 / 800.MBA.IOWA / tippiemba@uiowa.edu / http://tippie.uiowa.edu/FulltimeMBA

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 Something’s about to change... your life.
Rankings—Just the Beginning
Although MBA rankings can be a helpful starting point in your search to identify the right school for you, there are many other factors to consider when re-
searching programs. To get the most out of your MBA search, make it a priority to understand your unique goals—so that your questions provide the most
useful answers. Ultimately, how well a program fits your educational, professional, and personal goals is the most important factor to consider.

Achieving Results and Earning Accolades

While rankings do not provide a complete picture of any MBA program, we are proud to be recognized as one of the top MBA programs in the world.

U.S. News & World Report BusinessWeek Financial Times Forbes

Top 50 U.S. MBA Programs Top 20 Public U.S. MBA #9 Best in Finance #1 Fastest Payback
#23 Public U.S. MBA Program Top 25 Marketing Program #11 Percent Salary Increase #2 Public Big Ten
Top 45 U.S. MBA Program #36 U.S. MBA Program #16 U.S. MBA Program
#2 Fastest Return on #63 World MBA Program
Investment (U.S.)
#7 Fastest Return on
Investment (World)

Princeton Review The Wall Street Journal The Economist

#7 Best Administered #31 MBA Program with Top 20 Public U.S. MBA Program
Strong Regional
Recruiting
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Permanent Placement and Internships
Corporations know that hiring a Tippie MBA means they’re hiring someone who will strengthen their business, and their team. The path to finding that “best
fit” career starts with an internship. This integral part of the MBA experience is more important than ever, since internships have become a primary source
of permanent hires. Nearly all Tippie MBAs spend the summer months in an internship or consulting project.

2008 Placement Statistics 2008 Internship Statistics

OFFERS 98% OFFERS 100%
ACCEPTS 95% BY FUNCTION ACCEPTS 100% BY FUNCTION
Finance & Accounting 33% Finance & Accounting 45%
Average Starting Salary $82,380 Marketing/Sales 23% Average Monthly Salary $4,606 Marketing/Sales 26%
High $127,000 Consulting 15% High $9,600 Operations/Logistics 9%
Low $56,500 Operations/Logistics 10% Low $2,000 Other 9%
Other 10% Consulting 7%
Average Signing Bonus $13,407 General Management 7% BY SOURCE General Management 5%
Human Resources 2% Career Services Facilitated 79%
Average Additional $12,713 Candidate Facilitated 21% BY INDUSTRY
Guaranteed Compensation BY INDUSTRY Financial Services 35%
Financial Services 34% Other 22%
BY SOURCE Consumer Products 17% Consumer Products 18%
Career Services Facilitated 78% Consulting 15% Pharm, Biotech, and 9%
Candidate Facilitated 22% Manufacturing 15% Healthcare
Technology 10% Manufacturing 7%
Other 9% Technology 7%
Consulting 2%
Recruiting Companies
We’ve gained great respect among recruiters for the talent and work ethic of our graduates. A number of companies visit campus, and many students travel
to interview with top firms across the country. Plus, Tippie uses the latest distance technologies to provide companies the ability to interview our students.
3M Company Burke Electronic Arts Hewlett Packard McKinsey & Company Principal Global Investors TIAA-CREF

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A.G. Edwards Cardinal Health Engineered Seal Products Highway Equipment Co. Medco Health Solutions, Progressive Insurance TMC Developments Inc.
Aavin LLC Caribou Coffee Enterprise Products Hills Bank Inc. Prudential T-mobile
Abbott Laboratories Carpedia International Company HNI Corporation Medtronic, Inc. Pure Fishing Asia Co. Toys R Us
ABF Freight System, Inc. Caterpillar Environ International Corp HON Company Meredith Corporation Qualcomm UBS Financial Services
AC Nielsen CB Richard Ellis Ernst & Young, L.L.P. Hormel Foods Corporation Merrill Lynch Quant Economics UIHC Healthcare
Adknowledge, Inc. CCA Strategies LLC ESP International HSBC Metavante Corporation R.W. Baird Umicore Group
Advanta Corporation CCP Industries Federal Home Loan Bank IBM Metro Construction Rawlings United Airlines
AEGON USA, Inc. CDS Global Feld Entertainment IHS Microsoft Corporation RBC Dain Rauscher United Healthcare
Agrivida Central College First Commercial Bank IMI plc. Miller Brewing Company Richmark Group United Stationers, Inc.
Allied Insurance/ Central National Bank First National Bank Intel Miller Hybrids Rockwell Collins United Technologies
Nationwide Cerner Corporation Frankfurter Volksbank Iowa City Dept of Veterans Millward Brown, Inc. Safe Home Products, Inc. University of Iowa
Allstate Investments, LLC China Trust Freddie Mac Affairs Mind Trust SAP America Upstream 21 Corp
Allsteel, Inc Citigroup Frontier Natural Prods. Iowa Electronic Market Morgan Stanley SAP Global Marketing, Inc. US Cellular
Amazon.com City of Chicago Galliard Capital Mgmt. John Deere Credit Motorola, Inc. Sara Lee Corporation USG
AMCOR CJ Media Inc. Gallup Organization JP Kenny Nationwide Insurance Saras America Vernon Research Group
American Profol ClearGauge Gartner Partners LLC JP Morgan Chase Nestle Purina Scotia Capital, Inc. Virtual Organization Mgmt.
Ameriprise Financial Commercial Resources, Inc. GE Commercial Financial JPEC Newedge USA, LLC Sears Holding Corp. Institute
Amerus Capital ConAgra Foods GE Energy Kaplan Higher Education Newton Development Corp Security Benefit Voyageur Asset Mgmt. Inc.
Appleton Concordant Partners General Growth Key Bank Newton Manufacturing Siemens Power Generation Wachovia Securities
Arc Worldwide Continental Airlines General Mills Kinseth Hospitality Next Generation Technology Solutia Waddell & Reed Inv. Mgmt.
Armstrong World Industries Copal Partners Geometric Americas, Inc. Kleffmann Next Medium Inc. Spirit Aerosystems Wells Dairy/Blue Bunny
ATK Cummins Global Granite & Marble, Kohler Co. Norgren, Inc. Sprint Nextel Wells Fargo & Company
Avery Dennison CUNA Mutual Group LLC Kurt Salmon Associates Northwest Airlines Staples Westlbag
Aviva Cybus Capital Goldman Sachs LaFarge Northwestern Memorial Starcom Worldwide Chicago Weyerhaeuser
Balyasny D. E. Shaw & Co, L.P. Grinnell Regional Medical Lafarge North America Inc. Hospital Stark Investments Whirlpool Corporation
Bank of North Carolina/ Daiichi Sankyo Center Lancaster Pollard Oakley State Admin. of Foreign Windale Group
BB&T Deloitte Guizzetti & Associates Land O’Lakes OPN Architects Exchange Xerox
Bank Financial Corporation Deutsche Bank Hamilton Robinson LLC Lands End Orbitz State of Wisconsin
Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Digital Artifacts Harley Davidson Liberty Mutual Pearson, Inc. Investment Board
Best Buy Co., Inc. Discover Financial Srvces. Harrahs Liguria Foods Pfizer, Inc. Steele Capital
BMO Capital Markets LLC Hasbro Li’l Drug Store Products, Inc. PFM Group Supervalu, Inc.
BMW of N. America, LLC E & J Gallo Health Care Futures Limited Brands Phillips Target Corporation
Board of Gov. of the Fed Eaton Corporation Health Plan Marketing Group Loras College Piper Jaffray Tenaska Capital Mgmt., LLC
Reserve ECG Management Health Strategies Lowe’s Home Improvement Pooltech Midwest The Gunlocke Company
Boeing Corporation Consultants Consultancy May Davis Group Inc. Pragma Consulting Thomson Financial
Brandsense Partners Ecolab Hendrickson International Mayo Clinic Principal Financial Thrivent Financial

Bold-face names denote hiring companies. Recruiting companies are those who’ve
interviewed, hired, or posted a position with Tippie MBA Career Services.
Your Foundation: Core Curriculum
The plan of study encompasses 64 semester hours, including 13 required courses. The foundation courses are completed in the fall semester of year one.
Advanced core courses follow in semesters 2-4, along with career academy courses (which vary depending upon the track you choose) and electives you
select. Professional & Leadership Development is required in every semester.

Full-time MBA Plan of Study

Year 1
Fall Winter Spring
8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks
Management in
Marketing Management (2)
Organizations (2)
International Strategic Business Consulting (3)
Data & Economic
Operations Management (2)
Decisions (2) Environment of the
Firm (2)
Corporate Financial Reporting Managerial Academy Course/ Academy Course/
(2) Finance (2) Elective (3) Elective (3)
Academy Course/ Academy Course/
Corporate Communications (2)
Seminar in Project Elective (3) Elective (3)
Management (1)
Professional & Leadership Development (1) Professional & Leadership Development (1)

15 semester hours 3 s.h. 16 semester hours

Year 2
Fall Winter Spring
8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks
Business Academy Course/ Academy Course/
Global Business Strategy (2)
Integration (2) Elective (3) Elective (3)
Academy Course/ Academy Course/
Academy Corporate Project (3) International Elective (3) Elective (3)
Immersion (2)
Academy Course/ Academy Course/ (optional) Academy Course/
OPEN
Elective (3) Elective (3) Elective (3)

Professional & Leadership Development (1) Professional & Leadership Development (1)

14 semester hours 16 semester hours

TOTAL: 64 semester hours

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Our Career Academies

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Tippie’s career academies are the framework through which you’ll become an expert in your field. Each career academy provides a set of aca-
demic and professional experiences—tied to industry—that result in a marketable skill set. Tippie’s three career academies offer a unique set
of transformational experiences, industry projects, and corporate connections. You’ll choose an academy and track from the following:
• Finance: Corporate Finance or Investment Management • Strategic Innovation: Process Excellence or Strategic
• Marketing: Managing Customers, Products & Brands Management of Innovation

fi n a n ce
Finance: Investment Management
Students in the Investment Management track complete the follow-
ing courses:
• Strategic Business Consulting or Henry Fund I
• Financial Modeling & Firm Valuation
• Fixed Income Securities
• Portfolio Management
• Alternative Investments & Strategies
• Applied Finance or Henry Fund II
• Financial Accounting Standards
• Corporate Investment & Financing Decisions
Investment Management Electives
You’ll choose two elective courses from within the Finance Academy,
and your remaining three electives from Finance or other areas. Find
a full list of School of Management electives on Page 4 of this insert.
Finance: Corporate Finance
Students in the Corporate Finance track complete the following
courses:
• Strategic Business Consulting or Henry Fund I
• Corporate Investment & Financing Decisions
• Financial Accounting Standards
• Applied Finance or Henry Fund II
• Corporate Financial Strategy
• Portfolio Management
• Financial Modeling & Firm Valuation
Corporate Finance Electives
Our Corporate Finance students choose two elective courses from
within the Finance Academy, and the remaining four electives from
from Finance or other areas. Electives are listed on Page 4 of this in-
sert.

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 ma r k eti n g Process Excellence Electives
You’ll choose five elective courses from within the Strategic Innova-
Marketing: Managing Customers, Products, and Brands
tion Academy or other areas. Find a full list of electives on Page 4 of
Students who select the marketing track complete these courses: this insert.
• Strategic Brand Positioning
st r ate g ic i n n o v atio n
• Applied Market Research
• Marketing Analytics Strategic Innovation: Strategic Management of Innovation
• Product & Pricing Students in the Strategic Management of Innovation (SMI) track
• Customer Analysis complete these courses:
• Applied Marketing (Field Studies in Marketing) • Global Supply Chain
• Managing Communication & Promotions • Corporate Investment & Financing Decisions
• Managing Distribution • Strategic Management of Innovation
• Strategic Cost Analysis
Marketing Electives • Product & Pricing
As a marketing student, you’ll choose three electives from other ar- • Strategic Information Technology
eas. Find a full list of School of Management electives on Page 4 of • Technology Commercialization Project
this insert. • Dynamics of Negotiations
st r ate g ic i n n o v atio n Strategic Management of Innovation Electives
Strategic Innovation: Process Excellence In addition to these courses, you’ll choose four elective courses from
within the Strategic Innovation Academy or other areas. Find a full list
Students in the Process Excellence track complete these courses: of School of Management electives on Page 4 of this insert.
• Global Supply Chain
• Six Sigma Project Joint/Dual Degree Programs
• Statistical Methods for Productivity Improvement Joint degrees you can pair with the Tippie MBA include the JD/MBA,
• Strategic Cost Analysis MLIS/MBA, MSN/MBA, MHA/MBA, or an MD/MBA. You must ap-
• Data & Decisions II ply to each program separately. Read more about joint degrees at
http://tippie.uiowa.edu/fulltimemba/academics/comdegrees.asp.
• Lean Academy
• Rapid Continuous Improvement (Spring Break, Year 2)

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MBA Program Electives
Wherever your plan of study allows for an elective, you can choose from the following School of Management courses. Some of these may be required de-
pending on the career academy/track you are part of. Course descriptions are available on our website (http://tippie.uiowa.edu/fulltimemba/academics).
Finance Electives
Alternative Investments and Strategies
Applied Corporate Finance
Applied Securities Management – Henry Fund I
Applied Securities Management – Henry Fund II
Corporate Financial Strategy
Corporate Investment and Financing Decisions
Derivatives
Financial Accounting Standards
Financial Modeling and Firm Valuation
Fixed Income Securities
International Finance
Portfolio Management
Real Estate Finance and Investments
Structured Finance - Securitization
Wealth Management
Marketing Electives
Applied Market Research
Customer Analysis
Field Studies in Marketing
Field Studies in Marketing - International
Managing Communications & Promotions
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Marketing Electives, cont.
Managing Distribution Networks
Marketing Analytics
Product and Pricing Decisions
Strategic Brand Positioning
Strategic Innovation Electives
Applied Technology Commercialization
Data and Decisions II
Dynamics of Negotiations
Lean Academy
Global Supply Chain
Rapid Continuous Improvement (RCI)
Six Sigma Project
Statistical Methods for Productivity Improvement
Strategic Cost Analysis
Strategic Management of Innovation
Strategic Information Technology
Supply Chain Management
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Supplemental Electives
Applications in Organizational Leadership
Entrepreneurship: Business Consulting
Entrepreneurship: Advanced Business Consulting
Entrepreneurship: New Business Formation
Financial Information and Capital Markets
International Management
MBA Case Competition
Modeling through VBA
Seminar in International Business
Taxes and Business Strategy
Writing for Business and Industry
Philanthropy and the Law
Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness I
Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness II
Investment in Your Future
The Tippie MBA provides one of the best returns on investment in the country. Tippie grads see a return in just over 3 years. Our tuition is less than half the
national average for B-school, and our R.O.I. is seventh best in the world. Review the tuition and fees for our program, and the potential for financial assis-
tance, and we think you’ll agree that the Tippie MBA is an opportunity you can’t pass up.
Program Costs - 2009-2010
Annual Tuition & Fees
Iowa Residents...................................................$16,244
Non-residents*...................................................$29,808
Professional & Leadership Development Fee.................$450
Computing, Health, & Building Fees..............................$593
Student Union, Activities, and Service Fees...................$268
Total Tuition and Fees 
Iowa Residents*........................................................$17,550
Non-residents...........................................................$31,119
Estimated Living Costs
Off-Campus Housing.............................. $400-1,000 monthly
University Apartments.............................. $418-553 monthly
Textbooks and Supplies................................$2,200 annually
Personal Expenses........................................$4,100 annually
Total Estimated Costs per Year
Iowa Resident...........................................$28,700 - $35,900
Non-resident.............................................$41,700 - $49,400
* Students awarded Graduate Assistantships pay in-state/Iowa resident tuition.
With the exception of tuition and fees, all figures quoted are estimates and
subject to change.
Students with children requiring full-time day care should expect to pay
approximately $150 per week for each child. In addition, married students
should add about $2,900 to the living and personal expenses figure for a
spouse and approximately $1,600 for each child. International student fees
are detailed on the other side of this page.
Applying for Financial Aid
Merit-based Aid
We offer merit-based financial aid to outstanding candidates. The qualifica-
tions mirror those for admission: academic background, standardized test
scores, work experience, leadership experience, and ability to communicate
clearly in the admissions interview. We’re looking for individuals who we be-
lieve will make meaningful contributions to the quality of the classroom ex-
perience, who will be active participants in student life, and who will be the
most successful students and alumni of our program.
Both domestic and international applicants are eligible for financial aid. Aid
awards may consist of a graduate assistantship and scholarship or a scholar-
ship alone. Scholarships average approximately $5,000 per year. Graduate
assistantships provide a salary of approximately $8,000 a year, a scholar-
ship, a contribution toward health insurance costs, and resident tuition sta-
tus for non-Iowa residents.
Need-based Aid
For information about the type of financial aid available and where to look
for it, check out “How to Finance Your MBA.” This booklet is available on the
web at mba.com/mba/schoolsandprograms/financingyourbschooldegree.
 International students may apply for the MBA Tuition Loan Program with a
co-signer who is a US citizen or permanent resident. International students
may also wish to investigate loans available through the Global Student Loan
program at www.globalslc.com.
Federal Aid – U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply for aid spon-
sored by the federal government by completing the Free Application for Fed-
eral Student Aid (FAFSA). In addition to the paper application form, you can
apply online at www.fafsa.ed.gov (do not submit more than one application).
Completing the FAFSA application form is often a required first step in apply-
ing for state loans and for some private funding sources as well.
Additional Resources – Information regarding other sources of financial as-
sistance is available at The University of Iowa Financial Aid website at www.
uiowa.edu/financial-aid. Links to various sources of both loans and scholar-
ships are provided.
Working and School
It may be necessary for you to work while you pursue your MBA. If you do
not receive notification that you will receive a graduate assistantship upon
admission, the probability of obtaining one upon arriving on campus is low.
However, there may be opportunities locally to obtain part-time employment
that is also relevant to your future career.
We do not recommend you work more than 10 hours per week during the
first semester of the MBA program. We recommend this because there will
be many activities you will want to be involved in to enrich your MBA experi-
ence; the course load is the heaviest you will face during your education; and
the adjustment of returning to academic life will require most of your time.
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Additional Information for International Students
Health Insurance
International students at The University of Iowa are required to have health
insurance. In addition, students are strongly advised to provide health in-
surance for any dependents who will be here with them to cover costs of
possible accidents or unexpected illnesses. A reasonably priced group insur-
ance plan with provisions for individuals and families is available through the
University. The cost ranges from $288 for single students with Graduate As-
sistantships and $840 for single students without Graduate Assistantships
to $4020 per calendar year to cover a student, spouse, and children.
A contribution towards health care costs is included for those students
awarded Graduate Assistantships.
International Student Fees
International students must also pay an annual International Student Fee of
$120 and an International Orientation Fee of $185.
“Tippie had by far the best return on
investment of any business school I considered
during my search. Since graduating, I’ve
asked friends, former coworkers, and new
acquaintances with business potential to
apply to Tippie. I wouldn’t have traded my
experience for one at any other school.”
Joel Zehr, MBA 2008
Admission Criteria
Some B-schools look at test scores and little else, but not Tippie. We take the time to learn about you. Your academic background, work experience, leader-
ship experience, standardized test scores, and admission interview are all factors. If you can show us great potential to succeed in both a rigorous B-school
program and later in the post-MBA real world, we’re looking for you. We consider the following factors, all of which are important in our decision.
Academic Background
In addition to cumulative grade point average
(GPA), we consider the compatibility of your ma-
jor with business curriculum and the reputation of
the school. We encourage you to apply even with
a non-business undergraduate degree to help us
build a class with diverse academic backgrounds.
There’s no minimum GPA; as a reference, last
year’s class average was 3.37. We don’t translate
results from institutions without a 4.0 scale into
a 4.0 scale “equivalent.” Rather, we consider the
results within the context of the institution and
the country’s educational system.
Note to applicants from India: The university re-
quires 16 years of education. Candidates who hold
a three-year bachelor’s degree must complete an
additional year of study at the Master’s level to be
considered.
Standardized Tests
GMAT: All candidates must submit a GMAT score.
Information on the GMAT is available at www.
mba.com. We don’t require a specific minimum
score (last year’s class average was 653).
English Proficiency: Results from either the Test
of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the
International English Language Testing System
(IELTS) must be provided by candidates for whom
English is not their native language. The minimum
TOEFL score is 250 (computer test), 600 (paper
test), or 100 (internet based). Information on the
TOEFL is available at www.toefl.org. The minimum
acceptable IELTS score is a total score of 7.0, with
no sub-score less than 6.0. We require all IELTS
test-takers to take the on-campus English Profi-
ciency Evaluation.
Work Experience
We recommend a minimum of two years full-time,
post-baccalaureate work experience. Our most
successful applicants typically have three to five
years of work experience.
Leadership
Leadership shows us your potential—for contrib-
uting to the learning environment and the post-
MBA world. Ideal candidates have clear records of
leadership in school, work, and their community.
Admission Interview
We require an admissions interview before an ad-
mission offer is made. The interview is typically
included in your campus visit. If you can’t visit in
person, an alternate format, usually a Skype or
phone interview, can be arranged. Interviews are
sometimes available with Tippie representatives
traveling to your city. Campus visits may be sched-
uled at any time regardless of where you are in the
application process. Candidates not participating
in a campus visit are invited to interview only after
a preliminary review of the application.
Application Deadlines
We review applications on a rolling basis starting
in December. We accept applications only for the
fall semester (August); they may be submitted up
to one year prior to enrollment. Candidates are
encouraged to submit applications well before the
deadline.
U.S. Applicants
Priority deadline: April 15
Final deadline: July 30
International Applicants
Priority deadline: January 15
Final deadline: April 15
Applying for Admission
U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents
The priority deadline for financial aid is April 15.
It’s especially important to apply early if you are
interested in obtaining merit-based financial aid.
After this date, less merit-based financial aid is
available. However, we recognize that personal
circumstances can change rapidly. If you decide
during the summer that you would like to begin
your MBA right away, please contact us to inquire
if space is still available. We are happy to work
with you.
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International applicants generally need more time
to gather application materials. Recent changes
in the visa process often mean that more time is
needed to obtain your student visa. In addition to
the steps outlined above, most international can-
didates must take the TOEFL or IELTS. Scores are
valid for two years prior to the date the applica-
tion is submitted.
Official transcripts must be submitted. The cop-
ies you submit must be attested as official by the
issuing institution. Provide official translations in
English along with the original document. Provide
official copies of your degree certificate or diplo-
ma as well.
International applications must arrive before the
April 15 deadline. We strongly recommend earlier
application for international students.
Application Checklist
• Take the GMAT
The GMAT is required before your application
can be reviewed. The test is available most
days of the week, year-round. However, you
will want to allow sufficient time to prepare
for the exam so that your score will accurately
represent your abilities. It takes two to three
weeks after the exam for the official scores to
arrive in our office.
• Complete the application form and submit it
with the application fee
Apply online at tippie.uiowa.edu/fulltimemba.
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• Submit two required essays and your resume
Specific essay questions are listed in the ap-
plication form. Your resume should accurately
reflect your educational and professional ac-
tivities and achievements. Proofread carefully.
• Select three references
Choose individuals who are able to speak to
your ability to succeed in a professional envi-
ronment and who can address your potential
to excel in an MBA program. We prefer profes-
sional recommendations over academic. Your
references can complete and submit the Tippie
recommendation form online at tippie.uiowa.
edu/fulltimemba/admissions/recommenda-
tion_form.cfm.
• Request your transcripts
Official copies of all transcripts must be provid-
ed to the University Admissions Office. Send to
Office of Admissions, The University of Iowa,
107 Calvin Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242-1396.
• Reserve your spot
If offered admission, notify us of your decision
and submit your deposit.
Application Forms
You can apply online or download a paper appli-
cation in the “Admissions” section of our website
at tippie.uiowa.edu/fulltimemba. To request a
paper application, contact the School of Manage-
ment at 800-MBA-IOWA (319-335-1039) or tippi-
emba@uiowa.edu. The application fee of $60 for
U.S. citizens and permanent residents and $85 for
international applicants must be sent before your
application is considered complete.
Class Profile
Each fall, the full-time MBA program at The Uni-
versity of Iowa welcomes a new class of students.
Students come from around the world to be a part
of the Tippie program. Smaller class sizes guaran-
tee highly qualified students and friendships that
last a lifetime. Take a look at the demographics of
our most recent admitted class.
Class of 2010
Number of students enrolled 66
Women 20 (30%)
Average age 27
Average GMAT 653
Mid 80% GMAT 580-710
Average GPA 3.37
Average years of work experience 3.42
Undergraduate Major Geographic Distribution
Business 37% U.S. 62%
Engineering 20% International 38%
Math/Science 17%
Humanities 14% Countries Represented:
Economics 8% Brazil, China, Ecua-
Computer Science 3% dor, Germany, India,
Other 1%
Republic of Moldova,
Peru, Romania, Tai-
wan, and Uganda