received their first job offer within the first three months after graduation
83%
were company sponsored, or already employed (2)
20%
were continuing their education (after graduation) (3)
16%
were starting a new business (4)
8%
postponed their job search
56%
did not seek employment for other reasons
0%
Companies that recruited second-year students on campus in past academic year
19
Companies that recruited second-year students via job boards in past academic year
501
(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. Deloitte & Touche
2
2. PriceWaterhouseCoopers
2
3. Roth Capital Partners
2
4. Beckman Coulter
1
5. Country Wide
1
6. Experian
1
7. Hewlett Packard
1
8. Honda R&D
1
9. IBM
1
10. Johnson Capital
1
11. KPMG
1
12. Northrup Gruman
1
13. Pacificare
1
14. Petco
1
15. RSM Equico
1
Prospects for 2003 grads (school reported):
Average starting-base salary (1) (exluding bonuses) for the Class of 2003
$67,027
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses) for the Class of 2003
$63,000
Average first-year signing bonus
$4,062
Median first-year signing bonus
$4,000
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus
21%
(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
$76,000
Median signing bonus
$10,000
Median other compensation
$10,000
Median MBA loans
$20,000
Average number of job offers at graduation
1.0
Average living expenses (not including tuition) over course of program
$45,802
Summer internship resulted in full-time employment
25%
CAREER DIRECTIONS
Graduates accepting jobs in the following function areas:
Consulting
18%
Finance/Accounting
36%
General Management
5%
Human Resources
0%
Marketing/Sales
23%
Management Information Systems
3%
Operations/Logistics
0%
Other
15%
Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa
0%
Asia
5%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia
0%
Latin America and the Carribean
0%
Middle East
0%
North America
(Canada: 0% / U.S.: 100%)
95%
Oceania
0%
Western Europe
0%
Graduates accepting jobs within North America:
Canada
0%
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.
100%
MBA INTERNSHIPS
Companies that recruited first-year MBA students for internships on campus in past academic year: 8
Companies that recruited first-year MBA interns via job boards during past academic year: 145
Top 15 recruiting firms:
Firm
Interns Hired
1. Conexant
8
2. Allergan
3
3. Deloitte Consulting
3
4. Experian
3
5. Booz Allen Hamilton
2
6. Fox Entertainment
2
7. Mervyns/Target
2
8. Mitsubishi
2
9. Qualcomm
2
10. Boeing
1
11. Beckman Coulter
1
12. Deloitte & Touche ERS
1
13. Exult
1
14. General Motors
1
15. Microsoft
1
Internship compensation:
Paid internships
86%
Average internship compensation (per week)
$880
Median internship compensation (per week)
$20
Average internship length (weeks)
10
B-SCHOOL SERVICES
Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination
Month offered
Paid for by B-School
National Society of Hispanic MBAs
Nov.
Yes
National Black MBA Association
Sept.
Yes
International MBA Conference
Oct.
No
TECHNOLOGY
Wireless network in main buildings: Yes
School's investment in technology over the past three years: $396,000
Technology changes made over the past three years:
Technological improvements from the three previous years include (1) expansion of streaming instruction to include the majority of core courses in GSM's executive programs. Streaming instruction includes broadcasting TA sessions, faculty-delivered tutorials and live conference coverage to students' homes and offices via high-speed Internet connections. This live service is augmented by a video library of archived content. The School began routine internet-based delivery of TA sessions for students that could not attend classroom sessions in executive programs (2) installed permanent computers in all GSM classrooms (3) added substantial capability to its home-grown content management system, Catalyst. Notifications of all changes in syllabi are automatically emailed to all students. (4) launched a new school Intranet (5) installed a Storage Area Network with a terabyte of disk space which is shared by all of the School's servers. (6) installed wireless electronic mail (Blackberry) (7) completed covering the entire school with wireless networks (8) upgraded the network infrastructure to gigabit Ethernet (9) installed a dedicated ITM server that will provide classroom access to top tier business applications, including Great Plains Dynamics accounting software, Oracle Sales Analyzer, MapInfo, and SAP/R3 CRM software.
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
University offers placement services for MBA alumni? Yes
Current MBA students given access to alumni database? Yes
The B-school has awarded 4,797 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 4,287 living MBA alumni, and 1 MBA club(s) in 1 country, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.
During the past 12 months, 43% of alumni gave to the school's fund-raising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $100, and a mean gift of U.S. $208. The school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million between Jan. 2001 and Oct. 2003, and the B-school endowment is U.S. $5,130,100
Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Francine Matijak
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