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Bloch: The Basics

Founded: 1953
Endowed by Henry Bloch: 1986
Full time faculty: 45
Endowed faculty chairs and professors: 13
Alumni: 12,579
Endowment: $24 million
Interim Dean: Lee Bolman, Ph.D.
Scholarships, 2008-2009 year: $130,000 
Total students (as of fall semester 2008): 1558
Graduate students:  636
Undergraduate students:  912

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Degree Programs

Graduate:

• MBA
  • The average GMAT is 554.7. 
    • The average score range is 450-740.
  • The average GPA is 3.253.
• Executive MBA
• MPA
  • The average GRE quantitative is 581.2, GRE verbal is 501.5.
  • The average GPA is 3.295.
• MSA
  • The average GMAT is 559.7. 
    • The average score range is 460-710.
  • The average GPA is 3.405.
• Interdisciplinary Ph.D.

Undergraduate:

• BBA
  • The average cumulative GPA is 3.136.
• BSA
  • The average cumulative GPA is 3.350.
• Business Minor

All test scores and GPAs are for admitted students as of fall 2008.

Certificate Programs:

• Community Economic Development
• Financial Planning
• Fundraising

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Accreditation

The Bloch School is the only school in the Kansas City region accredited by both AACSB and NASPAA.

The Bloch School's business administration programs are accredited by AACSB International, which accredits less than 10% of the world’s business schools. We've held this accreditation since 1969.

The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration accredits the Bloch School's Masters of Public Administration (MPA) degree.  

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Centers and Institutes

• Center for International Business
• Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs
• Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership

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UMKC: The Basics

Founded: 1929, part of The University of Missouri system in 1963
Schools and colleges: 12
Fields of graduate study: 58
Full-time faculty: 641
Graduate students: 3,296
Undergraduate students: 7,332
Endowment: $202.7 million

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More on the Bloch School

• Undergraduate enrollment has increased by 300 students over the past 10 years.
• Bloch undergraduate students are able to earn a Bloch MBA in only one additional year.
• Bloch graduate student enrollment increased by 9.3% in 2006.
• The percentage of women in all Bloch degree programs is higher than the national average.
• The Nonprofit Management Emphasis area in the MPA degree is ranked in the top 20 by US News and World Report.
• Entrepreneur magazine ranked the Bloch School in the top ten for schools nationwide for its entrepreneurial emphasis program.
• Bloch School students founded two new student organizations in 2006: the Public Administration Student Association (PASA) and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club (Ei Club).
• Kansas City's new mayor, Mark Funkhouser, is a graduate of UMKC's IPh.D. program in Public Affairs & Administration.