• The University of North Carolina

The Kenan-Flagler MBA

What Sets Us Apart? The Duality of Excellence

Commitment to Excellence

Principled

Friendly

Collaborative

Interpersonal Skills

Smart

Hardworking

Ambitious

Technical Skills

• Top rankings

– Business Week No. 16

– US News & World Report No. 19

– Forbes No. 15

– Wall Street Journal No. 6

– Financial Times No. 29

• Continuously rated at the top for teaching, accessibility and responsiveness

Commitment to Excellence

– Unique “Carolina culture”

– Ideal location

– Strong and diverse community

Great Environment

• Curriculum features– Flexibility of the curriculum

prepares students for success in internships and careers

– Choice of concentrations, enrichments and focus areas…or general management

– Electives start in second half of first year

– Internal Case Competition provides a complete understanding of business

Cutting-edge Curriculum

• Concentrations– Corporate Finance

– Marketing

– Global Supply Chain Management

– Investment Management

– Management Consulting

– Real Estate

Concentrations/Enrichments/Focus Areas

Cutting-edge Curriculum

• Enrichments– Entrepreneurship

– Sustainable Enterprise

• Focus Areas– Energy

– Healthcare

– Family Business

• Practical approach to leadership that begins with Orientation

• 4 step cycle of leadership development

• Leadership Days during the academic calendar

• Leadership immersion

Leadership Initiative

Cutting-edge Curriculum

International Opportunities

• Global Immersion Electives

• Global STAR Project

• Doing Business In

• MBA exchange programs

• “Working Language” Classes – Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin

• On-campus cultural activities

Cutting-edge Curriculum

Action Based Learning Opportunities

Cutting-edge Curriculum

Launching the Venture

AIM – Applied Investment Management

Private Equity Fund

Real-Estate Fund

Leadership/ Sustainability Immersion

STAR

Global Business Project

• Top 10 reputation among recruiters with major companies coming to campus

• Individual attention from functionally-aligned CMC directors means customized support

• Passionate , powerful and loyal alumni network

Career Success

Salary Statistics*

(Class of 2012) Mean

Base Salary $102,378

Signing Bonus $24,947

*Based only on those students who reported salary information

Career Success

Class 2014 Profile

Class Size: 290Gender: 29% femaleMedian Age: 28Age Range: 22-40Median Years Worked: 5Median GMAT: 700 (range 630-750)

Citizenship: 36% non-U.S.No. of countries: 23U.S. Minority: 15%Students with Partners: 30%

Admissions

Fellowships

• All applicants who submit application by January deadline are automatically considered

• No separate fellowship application required

• School fellowships are merit-based

• Up to 25% of each class is awarded a fellowship

• Dean’s Fellows Program goes beyond fellowship

• Falls Prize is an extra incentive

Admissions

What happens after you “submit”?

• All admitted applicants will have an interview

• Open interview policy means you schedule the interview when it is convenient for you

• Each application is read twice by two independent readers– Reader #1 evaluates the written application only

– Interviewer conducts “blind” interview

– Reader #2 evaluates the entire package and makes recommendation

– Admissions Committee (AdComm) reviews all applications by round

– Fellowship Committee reviews all admitted applicants each round

Admissions

And who is the Admissions Committee?

• A team of Admissions Directors, faculty, and other staff who manage nearly 2,000 applications each academic year

• We are:– Fluent in Spanish and German (with a little French)

– Formerly a Brand Manager and Marketing Director, attorney, advertising executive, management consultants, ex-Telecomm CEO, financial services analysts and executives, specialists in leadership development

– Graduates of UNC, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Stanford, Tufts, Boston College, UC Berkeley, WashU, IU, Duke, Washington & Lee

– From states ranging from Alabama to North Carolina to California

Committed to enrolling a phenomenal class of MBAs at UNC each year!

Admissions

Admissions

How does the Admissions Committee work?

Next Steps

Application Deadlines –

Consortium Application Deadlines –

Application mustbe received

Interviewcompleted by

Decision ReleaseDate* Deposit Deadline

Deadline 1early action Oct 19 Dec 3 Dec 10 Jan 7

Deadline 2 Dec 7 Jan 25 Feb 4 Apr 15

Deadline 3 Jan 11 Mar 11 Mar 18 Apr 15

Deadline 4 Mar 15 Apr 12 Apr 29 May 13

Questions?

mba_info@unc.eduhttp://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/