THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT
| Graduating class seeking employment (1) | | 79% |
Graduates who: |
 | received their first job offer by graduation | 42% |
| received their first job offer within the first three months after graduation | 5% |
| were company sponsored, or already employed (2) | 7% |
| were continuing their education (after graduation) (3) | 4% |
| were starting a new business (4) | 5% |
| postponed their job search | 7% |
| did not seek employment for other reasons | 3% |
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| 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:
| Firm | Graduates Hired |
| 1. Johson & Johnson |
11 |
| 2. IBM Corp |
6 |
| 3. Samsung Electronics |
5 |
| 4. Citigroup |
5 |
| 5. Ford Motor Co. |
4 |
| 6. Merck & Co. |
4 |
| 7. UBS Warburg |
3 |
| 8. L'Oreal |
3 |
| 9. KPMG |
3 |
| 10. Hilti |
3 |
| 11. Fisher-Scientific |
3 |
| 12. Eli Lilly & Co. |
3 |
| 13. Intel |
2 |
| 14. Schering-Plough |
2 |
| 15. Chevron Texaco |
2 |
Prospects for 2002 grads (school reported):
Average starting-base salary (1) (exluding bonuses) for the Class of 2002
|
$62,941 |
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses) for the Class of 2002
|
$65,500 |
Average first-year signing bonus
|
$12,982 |
Median first-year signing bonus
|
$10,000 |
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus
|
53% |
(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
|
$66,000 |
Median signing bonus
|
$10,000 |
Median other compensation
|
$30,000 |
Median MBA loans
|
$30,000 |
Average number of job offers at graduation
|
1.3 |
Average living expenses (not including tuition) over course of program
|
$49,684 |
Summer internship resulted in full-time employment
|
15% |
CAREER DIRECTIONS
Graduates accepting jobs in the following fields:
| Accounting/Auditing |
3% |
| Banking/Mortgage (Investment banking, etc.) |
3% |
| Consulting Services (management consulting, strategic planning, product management, etc.) |
8% |
| Finance/Economics |
17% |
| Financial Services |
1% |
| Human Resources |
2% |
| Information Technology |
3% |
| Manufacturing/Operations and Production |
6% |
| Marketing |
29% |
| Sales |
10% |
| Other |
10% |
Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
| Africa | 0% |
| Asia | 27% |
| Central/South America, Mexico | 5% |
| Eastern Europe | 3% |
| Middle East | 0% |
North America
(Canada: 1% / U.S.: 99%) | 58% |
| Oceania | 1% |
| Western Europe | 7% |
Within North America:
| Canada | 1% |
| Mid-Atlantic U.S. | 5% |
| Midwest U.S. | 7% |
| Northeast U.S. | 18% |
| South U.S. | 6% |
| Southwest U.S. | 12% |
| U.S. Possessions and territories | 0% |
| West U.S. | 9% |
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. Eli Lily |
6 |
| 2. Ford Motor Co. |
6 |
| 3. General Motors |
6 |
| 4. Citigroup |
5 |
| 5. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein |
4 |
| 6. Ericsson Wireless Communication |
4 |
| 7. IBM |
4 |
| 8. Johnson & Johnson |
4 |
| 9. Schering-Plough |
4 |
| 10. Accenture |
3 |
| 11. Merck & Company |
3 |
| 12. TNT |
3 |
| 13. Unilever |
3 |
| 14. UPS |
3 |
| 15. Fisher Scientific |
2 |
Internship compensation:
| Paid internships |
78% |
| Average internship compensation |
$3,761 |
| Median internship compensation |
$4,000 |
B-SCHOOL SERVICES
Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
| Destination | Month offered | Paid for by B-School |
London Financial Institutions
|
Jan. |
No |
Washington, DC government, nonprofit
|
Jan. |
No |
Silicon Valley
|
Jan. |
No |
TECHNOLOGY
Wireless network in main buildings: No
School's investment in technology over the past three years: $6,000,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
1. The school installed a Gigabit Ethernet Local Area Network connecting every building on the campus, including all 342 dorm rooms. There are just under 400 public network ports, so students can access computing services easily from just about anywhere on campus. In addition, the campus LAN supports a Virtual Private Network to the campus in Archamps, France.
2. The school completed the development of "My Thunderbird", the school's learning portal/course management system. My Thunderbird provides each student, staff and faculty member with their own personalized web page configured to their role/responsibilities at the school. Students can access email, on-line research databases, calendars, discussion groups, etc. Faculty web pages provide course management capabilities. My Thunderbird also provides a Career Management/Job Recruiting capability.
3. All Student Services have been integrated in the "My Thunderbird" portal, including the admissions process, class registration, drop/add, access to grades, transcript requests, school calendar, posting of resumes, reviewing job postings, signing up for job interviews, etc.
4. The "eThunderbird" e-Learning platform has been developed to support multi-media learning experiences delivered on-line.
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
Alumni office offers placement services for MBA alumni? Yes
Alumni networking Web site:
http://www.my.t-bird.edu
Current MBA students given access to alumni database? Yes
The B-school has awarded 34 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 32,603 living MBA alumni, and 135 MBA club(s) in 67 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
During the past 12 months, 15% 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. $272. 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. $24,564,678
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Susan Coffroth
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