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2002 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
University of California
Haas School of Business

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Address: S430 Student Services Bldg. #1902
Berkeley, CA 94720-1902
E-Mail: mbaadms@haas.berkeley.edu
Web site: http://haas.berkeley.edu


THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT

Graduating class seeking employment (1)   94%

Graduates who:
received their first job offer by graduation 72%
received their first job offer within the first three months after graduation 80%
were company sponsored, or already employed (2) n/a
were continuing their education (after graduation) (3) n/a
were starting a new business (4) 1%
postponed their job search 5%
did not seek employment for other reasons 0%
 
Number of companies that recruited second-year students on campus in past academic year n/a

(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:
FirmGraduates Hired
1. Siebel Systems 8
2. Wells Fargo 5
3. Boston Consulting Group 3
4. Citigroup 3
5. Clorox 3
6. Deloitte Consulting 3
7. Johnson & Johnson 3
8. Lehman Brothers 3
9. Autodesk 2
10. Bain & Co. 2
11. BEA Systems 2
12. Blue Shield of CA 2
13. Fidelity Investments 2
14. Hewlett-Packard 2
15. JP Morgan Chase 2


Prospects for 2002 grads (school reported):
Average starting-base salary (1) (exluding bonuses) for the Class of 2002

$83,950
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses) for the Class of 2002

$85,000
Average first-year signing bonus

$17,140
Median first-year signing bonus

$17,750
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus

n/a

(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

$88,000
Median signing bonus

$15,000
Median other compensation

$25,000
Median MBA loans

$24,000
Average number of job offers at graduation

1.6
Average living expenses (not including tuition) over course of program

$54,213
Summer internship resulted in full-time employment

26%


CAREER DIRECTIONS

Graduates accepting jobs in the following fields:
Consulting Services (management consulting, strategic planning, product management, etc.) 15%
Finance/Economics 35%
Marketing 22%
Real Estate 6%
Other 22%

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa n/a
Asia 8%
Central/South America, Mexico 3%
Eastern Europe n/a
Middle East n/a
North America
 (Canada: n/a / U.S.: n/a  )
85%
Oceania n/a
Western Europe 5%

Within North America:
Canada n/a
Mid-Atlantic U.S. 2%
Midwest U.S. 2%
Northeast U.S. 10%
South U.S. 3%
Southwest U.S. 2%
U.S. Possessions and territories n/a
West U.S. 81%


MBA INTERNSHIPS

Companies that recruited first-year MBA students for internships on campus in past academic year: n/a

Top 15 recruiting firms:
FirmInterns Hired
1. Sun Microsystems 7
2. Lehman Brothers 6
3. Deloitte Consulting 4
4. McKesson Corp. 4
5. Wells Fargo Bank 4
6. BEA Systems 3
7. Goldman Sachs 3
8. Hewlett-Packard 3
9. Samsung Group 3
10. SBC Comm. 3
11. A.T. Kearney 2
12. Adaptic Systems 2
13. Adobe 2
14. Bristol-Myers Squibb 2
15. Fidelity Investments 2


Internship compensation:
Paid internships 92%
Average internship compensation $12,800
Median internship compensation $13,875


B-SCHOOL SERVICES

Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination Month offered Paid for by B-School
New York: Wall Street

Jan. No
Los Angeles: Entertainment

n/a No
New York: Media

n/a No
Silicon Valley

n/a No


TECHNOLOGY

Wireless network in main buildings: Yes

School's investment in technology over the past three years: $5,005,205

Technology changes made over the past three years:
The schooll is currently building a distance learning classroom. The Haas School Web site has been redesigned. A new wireless network has been installed. The school has added a new financial engineering lab. New servers (Sun Enterprise 6000 research server) and a storage-area network for server file storage has also been added. Classroom technology and equipment upgrades have also taken place throughout the school.


ALUMNI AFFAIRS

Alumni office offers placement services for MBA alumni? Yes

Alumni networking Web site:
http://haas.berkeley.edu

Current MBA students given access to alumni database? Yes

The B-school has awarded 10,523 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 10,233 living MBA alumni, and 22 MBA club(s) in 8 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past 12 months, 14% of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $125, and a mean gift of U.S. $1,285. 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. $112,269,158

Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Ute Frey


 
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