Membership Categories and Benefits

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Complimentary membership:

No annual fee, no expiration, $500 setup fee for new schools. Your Complimentary membership provides many valuable services not offered by other MBA databases:

  1. Members can provide detailed information about their business school and all MBA programs offered.
  2. You can include details about your facilities, faculty, tuition, and many other items of information that enable prospective students to evaluate your MBA program against their needs.
  3. You can offer a brief text describing and promoting special attributes of your business school, enhanced by HTML if you desire.
  4. A separate survey is available for each MBA program you offer, custom designed for the type of students you enroll, including full-time, part-time, executive, accelerated, and distance learning.
  5. Each survey allows you to promote your programs with a text description of special attributes that are not covered by the survey questions.
  6. Your record is protected by a password available only to a university administrator. Your data are official because they are provided by you and not edited or modified by us.
  7. You receive monthly and quarterly reports on the number of times your university appeared on visitors' ranked search lists, and the number of times they looked at your MBA programs. The reports are provided in summary form and in detail by program. The report reminds you when your record was last updated.
  8. Your record includes vital information that enables us to send you warnings if our e-mail and reports to your primary contact address are rejected because the address becomes obsolete or corrupted.
  9. The private information you provide is protected by a strict privacy policy, and your private e-mail addresses are never publicly visible, to prevent harvesting by robot programs.
  10. After logging in, you can view data on the most recent visitors who accessed your data, including their age, GMAT, GPA, TOEFL if they supplied the information when they registered as visitors.
  11. Your record need never contain obsolete data because you have access to it at all times and can easily update it when changes take place. Updating is simple because you only need to edit those items that have changed.
  12. Your record shows the date it was last updated.
  13. The information you provide is used by prospective students to screen and rank your university and MBA programs according to criteria they deem important and to obtain a list of universities ranked according to how well they meet those criteria. The screening and ranking process increases the probability of your receiving applications from students most suitable for the MBA programs you offer.
  14. If one or more of your MBA programs appears among the top 40 ranked according to one of several criteria, you will have the privilege of displaying an icon on your university, school of business, and MBA program home pages, indicating the rank that your school achieved.

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Premium membership:

Annual fee, $360. Premium members have all the privileges of Complimentary members plus the following additional services:

  1. You can search a visitor data base on variables such as GMAT, GPA, undergraduate degree and major, and many others, specify criteria that interest you and obtain lists of visitors that meet those criteria.
  2. Your account keeps track of visitors who look at your school's record, and you can examine their data and send them e-mail messages, without violating their privacy.
  3. You can delete visitors from your list of recent accesses if you have no interest in them.
  4. You can create two separate promotional campaigns for sending a group e-mail message to visitors meeting your search criteria, and to individual visitors, without violating the visitors' privacy rights. Once the campaigns are mailed, you can create two new campaigns.
  5. A record of your past promotional campaigns is kept in your account, including the list of visitors to whom you mailed it.
  6. Your university and MBA programs are displayed to visitors more prominently in a bold face font.
  7. Premium and Charter memberships expire at the end of February, May, August, or November. Universities joining in an expiration month or the month following an expiration month will have a first year membership lasting 11 to 13 months. Those joining in the month prior to an expiration month will have a first year membership lasting 12 to 14 months. For example, if you join between May 1 and June 30, your membership will be renewable on May 31 of the following year. If you join between April 1 and May 31, your membership will also be renewable on May 31 of the following year.

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Charter membership:

No longer available. Charter members are schools that contributed the funding necessary to develop the new version of the Official MBA Guide. In addition to all privileges enjoyed by Premium members, Charter members' initial contribution pays for their first year Charter Membership and they are entitled to a 30% discount from the annual Premium membership fee in perpetuity.

Sponsor membership:

Sponsor members have agreed to offer a scholarship through the Official MBA Guide. Further information will be made available here shortly.

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JOINT PROGRAMS AND MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

For membership purposes, the Official MBA Guide treats universities in a manner similar to AACSB accreditation rules: If a university with programs in more than one location would be accredited as a separate autonomous unit at each location (whether or not accredited) each location is subject to a separate setup fee or Premium Membership fee. For example: Sample University - Dallas (TX) and Sample University - Fort Worth (TX) are considered separate autonomous institutions.

If a university with programs in more than one location could be accredited as one institution because of their proximity, only one setup fee or Premium Membership fee is charged, even if each location is reported on our site separately. For example: Sample University - Winter Park (FL) and Sample University - Maitland (FL) would be accredited as a single institution because of their proximity, but may wish to report two locations because they employ different faculty or offer different MBA programs.

An institution may have multiple locations, but one person is the primary contact responsible for maintaining the data for all locations. The one-time setup fee is $500 for the first location and $50 for each additional location. If a Premium membership is desired, the annual fee is $360 for the first location and $100 for each additional location.

Some universities may offer joint MBA programs. University A in Ohio may offer a joint MBA program with University B in Nevada, or University C sponsors an MBA program with University D in Africa. In this case each institution is treated as autonomous, but each may list the joint MBA program in its own Official MBA Guide record.

Send an email to us if you want a Premium Membership for multiple locations.

The Official MBA Guide publishes official information provided by university administrators. To ensure the information remains official, we do not edit or modify the data provided. If a university does not wish to provide data to the Official MBA Guide, we reserve the right to publish information about that university's MBA programs that is publicly available, such as information published by other services, and information in the web site, catalogs, or other materials published by the university. In that case, we label the record as UNOFFICIAL. Universities that request to be removed from the Official MBA Guide will be removed only if they request to be removed from all other services that publish their data.