received their first job offer within the first three months after graduation
87%
were company sponsored, or already employed (2)
9%
were continuing their education (after graduation) (3)
5%
were starting a new business (4)
5%
postponed their job search
7%
did not seek employment for other reasons
22%
Number of companies that recruited second-year students on campus in past academic year
141
(1) Seeking full-time professional employment.
(2) Includes graduates whose studies were financially sponsored by their employers and are returning to those employers, or who were employed while a student and will continue working for that employer.
(3) Enrolled/will enroll in further graduate studies.
(4) Starting a new business as owner. Does not include students accepting jobs with a salary in a new (startup) business.
Top 15 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past 12 months and the number of students hired:
Firm
Graduates Hired
1. Ryder
1
2. IBM
1
3. Harris Corporation
1
4. American Management Systems
1
5. CSX
1
6. AOL Time Warner
1
7. General Electric
1
8. Northern Trust
1
9. SunTrust
1
10. William R Hough
1
11. ExxonMobil
0
12. Proctor & Gamble
0
13. Ford Motor Company
0
14. Johnson & Johnson
0
Prospects for 2002 grads (school reported):
Average starting-base salary (1) (exluding bonuses) for the Class of 2002
$62,100
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses) for the Class of 2002
$61,000
Average first-year signing bonus
$5,700
Median first-year signing bonus
$5,000
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus
65%
(1) Base salary excludes bonuses, commissions, and other compensation. Should be reported in U.S. dollars.
2002 GRADUATES REPORT
Editor's Note: Based on responses to BusinessWeek's 2002 survey of graduates.
Median starting base-salary
$65,000
Median signing bonus
$5,000
Median other compensation
$9,000
Median MBA loans
$15,000
Average number of job offers at graduation
1.4
Average living expenses (not including tuition) over course of program
$25,939
Summer internship resulted in full-time employment
Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa
0%
Asia
0%
Central/South America, Mexico
0%
Eastern Europe
0%
Middle East
0%
North America
(Canada: 0% / U.S.: 100%)
0%
Oceania
0%
Western Europe
0%
Within North America:
Canada
0%
Mid-Atlantic U.S.
15%
Midwest U.S.
5%
Northeast U.S.
10%
South U.S.
55%
Southwest U.S.
0%
U.S. Possessions and territories
0%
West U.S.
15%
MBA INTERNSHIPS
Companies that recruited first-year MBA students for internships on campus in past academic year: n/a
Top 15 recruiting firms:
Firm
Interns Hired
1. Pepsi
1
2. Pratt & Whitney
3
3. Citibank
1
4. McKesson
1
5. BellSouth
2
6. JP Morgan
1
7. Progress Energy
1
8. Intersil
1
9. Johnson & Johnson
1
10. IBM
1
11. ExxonMobil
1
12. Disney
n/a
13. William Hough & Co.
1
14. Anheuser-Busch
n/a
15. Avalon
n/a
Internship compensation:
Paid internships
100%
Average internship compensation
$2,500
Median internship compensation
$2,500
B-SCHOOL SERVICES
Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
n/a
TECHNOLOGY
Wireless network in main buildings: Yes
School's investment in technology over the past three years: $1,500,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
During the last three years, the Warrington College of Business Administration spent over $1.5 million to upgrade computing equipment for faculty and staff, to upgrade the college's core network, to provide current technology in classrooms including rooms with power and data at each seat, to renovate the graduate lab for notebook computer use, and to phase in a college standard where all faculty have a notebook computer to enable mobile computing.
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
Alumni office offers placement services for MBA alumni? No
Alumni networking Web site: n/a
Current MBA students given access to alumni database? No
The B-school has awarded 4,000 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 3,900 living MBA alumni, and n/a MBA club(s) in n/a countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
During the past 12 months, 9% of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $100, and a mean gift of U.S. $1,035. As of Jan. 2000 the B-school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million, and the B-school's total endowment is U.S. $80,000,000
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Bob Brewer
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