The IBEAR MBA

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MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS

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 Get ready
to dive in.
To stand out.
To move ahead. The
International Business Education
and Research (IBEAR) MBA at
USC Marshall School of Business is
destination education: an unequaled
place for hands-on, high-impact business
learning that positions you for global success.
Get to Know Us
The IBEAR MBA is a top-ranked,
one-year, international program
for mid-career professionals. Based
at USC’s campus in Los Angeles — one of the
world’s most vibrant and dynamic cities, which is a
hub of American innovation. IBEAR is an immersive
educational experience that helps mid-career
managers develop the knowledge, tools and business
networks that will help them thrive.
With an average age of 35 and 11 years of work
experience, IBEAR students come together from
Asia, Latin America, North America and Europe for
12 months of intensive study (56 units), leading to
life-long membership in the IBEAR Network of
1,800 alumni around the globe, as well as in the
USC Trojan Alumni Family of more than
375,000 members.
The IBEAR Edge
IBEAR participants bring an incredible range of
experience to the class, which in combination with
the Marshall School’s award-winning faculty and
entrepreneurial atmosphere, creates a unique
educational environment with the Marshall
School’s award winning faculty and entrepreneurial
atmosphere. IBEAR also has a dedicated career
development professional who works closely with
each self-sponsored participant to help them
develop and achieve their post-IBEAR career goals.
IBEAR sets the standard for experiential education,
putting students directly in the business world
throughout the year-long program. We believe
“doing” is a critically important part of learning. 
Thus, IBEAR fully funds a 10-day professional trip to
Asia and partially funds 3-day trips to Silicon Valley
and Seattle for all IBEAR students.
The Capstone Project
IBEAR’s International Business Consulting Project
(IBCP), is a unique four-month long, proprietary
business consulting engagement. Students
collaborate on project teams and work with their
IBCP clients to build strategies and develop solutions
for one of the client’s strategic business issues.
Typically, the executive sponsors are CEOs and SVPs
and students and faculty must sign NDAs. Travel for
research is a mandatory component of each project;
costs are covered by client sponsorship fees. IBCP
clients include Fortune 500 companies, as well as
dynamic small- and medium-sized firms.
Affording IBEAR
IBEAR Global Business Fellow Scholarships, which
range from $5,000 to $45,000, are available for
highly-qualified, self-sponsored participants. Also,
housing subsidies of $9,000 and $15,000 are
available for self-sponsored participants who want
to help build an “IBEAR Community” of students
and families.
marshall.usc.edu/ibear
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IBEAR Snapshot
Average age: 35
Average work experience: 11 years
Average class size: 55 Participants by Region
Countries represented: 12-15 n Asia: 55%
Median GMAT: 630 n North America: 20%
Established: 1978 n Latin America: 20%
n Europe: 5%
Undergraduate Majors
n Business: 25%
n Science & Engineering: 40%
n Humanities and Social Sciences: 20%
n Economics: 10%
n Computer Science: 5% 5%
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Representative
Employers
Amazon Johnson & Johnson
Apple Korean Air
Bank of America KPMG
Cap Gemini LG Electronics
Cisco Systems Luminit
Deloitte McKinsey
Dongkuk Steel Microsoft
Ernst & Young Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Facebook Moody’s Investor Services
Fairchild Semiconductor Morgan Stanley
Glencore Xstrata Oliver Peoples
Hana Bank Oracle
Hewlett & Packard PwC
Hitachi Sony Pictures Entertainment
IBM Consulting Tata Consultancy Services
Intel Corporation Toshiba
Ito En Unilever
Itochu Walmart
JFE Steel Corporation

Representative
Countries
Australia Mexico
Belgium Nigeria
Brazil Pakistan
Contact us:
Canada Peru
Chile Poland IBEAR MBA Program
China Romania Marshall School of Business
Columbia Russia 837 Downey Way, STO 302
Ecuador Saudi Arabia Los Angeles, CA 90089-1145
France South Africa (213) 740 7140
Germany Spain
ibearmba@marshall.usc.edu
Hungary Switzerland
Twitter: @uscibearmba
India Turkey
Web: marshall.usc.edu/ibear
Iran Taiwan
Indonesia United Kingdom
Japan United States
Korea Venezuela