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2002 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
Manchester Business School


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Address: Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
Manchester M15 6PB
UK
E-Mail: mba_admissions@man.mbs.ac.uk
Web site: http://www.mbs.ac.uk


THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT

Graduating class seeking employment (1)   99%

Graduates who:
received their first job offer by graduation 58%
received their first job offer within the first three months after graduation 29%
were company sponsored, or already employed (2) 2%
were continuing their education (after graduation) (3) 0%
were starting a new business (4) 3%
postponed their job search 1%
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. Barclays Capital 6
2. Johnson & Johnson 4
3. DHL 3
4. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young 2
5. A T Kearney 1
6. Ford 1
7. GlaxoSmithKline 1
8. BOC Group 1
9. Price Waterhouse Coopers 1


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

$82,800
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses) for the Class of 2002

$84,700
Average first-year signing bonus

$22,900
Median first-year signing bonus

$26,200
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus

30%

(1) Base salary excludes bonuses, commissions, and other compensation. Should be reported in U.S. dollars.



CAREER DIRECTIONS

Graduates accepting jobs in the following fields:
Administrative and Support Services 2%
Arts, Entertainment, Publishing, and Media 2%
Banking/Mortgage (Investment banking, etc.) 18%
Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical 14%
Computers, Hardware 2%
Construction, Mining and Trades 4%
Consulting Services (management consulting, strategic planning, product management, etc.) 27%
Engineering 2%
Finance/Economics 13%
Financial Services 2%
Insurance 2%
Marketing 8%
Retail/Wholesale 2%

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa 0%
Asia 34%
Central/South America, Mexico 4%
Eastern Europe 1%
Middle East 0%
North America
 (Canada: 1% / U.S.: 99%)
1%
Oceania 0%
Western Europe 60%

Within North America:
Canada 1%
Mid-Atlantic U.S. 0%
Midwest U.S. 0%
Northeast U.S. 0%
South U.S. 0%
Southwest U.S. 0%
U.S. Possessions and territories 0%
West U.S. 0%


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. A T Kearney 3
2. Barclays Capital 3
3. HILTI 3
4. Astra Zeneca 2
5. Ford Motor Company 1
6. British Telecom 1
7. Ernst & Young 1
8. Merrill Lynch 1
9. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter 1
10. KPMG 1
11. United Utilities 1


Internship compensation:
Paid internships n/a
Average internship compensation n/a
Median internship compensation n/a


B-SCHOOL SERVICES

Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination Month offered Paid for by B-School
None

n/a n/a


TECHNOLOGY

Wireless network in main buildings: No

School's investment in technology over the past three years: $1,563,000

Technology changes made over the past three years:
The school has added provision of video conferencing facilities, granted laptops to every full-time student, and increased laptop network points across library study spaces and throughout the building. The school has also installed a full Lotus Domino system to enable industry standard collaborative computing methods to be used by our MBAs and Faculty on group projects, etc.


ALUMNI AFFAIRS

Alumni office offers placement services for MBA alumni? Yes

Alumni networking Web site:
http://www.mbs.ac.uk/alumni

Current MBA students given access to alumni database? Yes

The B-school has awarded 6,140 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 6,098 living MBA alumni, and 11 MBA club(s) in 11 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past 12 months, n/a of alumni gave to the school's fundraising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. n/a, and a mean gift of U.S. n/a. 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. n/a


ADDITIONAL SCHOOL COMMENTS

Application deadlines:
Asia deadline - March 1, 2003
Scholarship deadline - March 31, 2003
Second deadline - June 30, 2003


Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Michael Jackson


 
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