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2004 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
INSEAD
Address: Boulevard de Constance
Fontainebleau (& Singapore) 77305 France
E-Mail: mba.info@insead.edu
Web links: B-school Web site

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THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT

Most recent graduates who...
...were seeking employment 1 81%
...were not seeking employment n/a
...provided no information regarding employment 2

8%
Graduates not seeking employment that were...
...company sponsored or already employed 3 8%
...continuing their education (after graduation) 4 0%
...postponing their job search 0%
...starting their own businesses 5 3%
...not seeking employment for other reasons 6

0%
Most recent job-seeking graduates who...
...received their first job offer by graduation 59%
...received their first job offer within three months of graduation 26%
...received their first job offer more than three months after graduation 0%
...did not report having received an offer

15%
Primary source of accepted full-time job offers:
School facilitated activities 43%
Graduate-facilitated activities 57%
No response provided by the graduate

0%
Companies that recruited employment-seeking MBA students for full-time positions on campus in past academic year 82
Companies that posted full-time job offers on the school's job boards in past academic year 430

Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
n/a


Top 15 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year:
FirmGraduates Hired
1. Mc Kinsey & Company 91
2. Bain & Company 25
3. The Boston Consulting Group 22
4. Booz Allen Hamilton 17
5. General Electric 11
6. Barclays Capital 10
7. CHEP 7
8. Eli Lilly 6
9. Novartis 6
10. Philip Morris 6
11. Shell 6
12. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young 6
13. ABN AMRO 5
14. Accenture 5
15. American Express 5

Historic salary prospects for recent grads (school reported):
200420032002
Graduates who provided usable base salary information52%54%43%
Average starting-base salary 7 (excluding bonuses)$95,115$93,800$113,000
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses)$93,580$93,800$105,000
Average first-year signing bonus$16,365$18,400$20,500
Median first-year signing bonus$17,825$17,360$21,600
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus34%42%60%

(1) Seeking full-time professional, MBA-level employment.
(2) No information available includes those graduates who may be seeking employment or who may not be seeking employment, but for whom the school has no reliable information
(3) Includes graduates whose studies were financially sponsored by their employers and are intending to return to those employers, or who were employed while a student and will continue working for that employer.
(4) Enrolled/will enroll in further graduate studies.
(5) Starting a new business as owner. Does not include students accepting jobs with a salary in a new (startup) business.
(6) Other reasons for not seeking employment are those reasons defined by the graduate.
(7) Base salary excludes bonuses, commissions, and other compensation. Should be reported in U.S. dollars.


2004 GRADUATES REPORT

Editor's Note: Based on responses to BusinessWeek Magazine's 2004 survey of graduates.

Historical Graduate Data
 20042002
Median starting base-salary$100,000$84,000
Median signing bonus$15,000$19,000
Median other compensation$43,000$31,000
Median MBA loans$24,500$25,500
Average number of job offers at graduation2.11.8
Average living expenses (not including tuition) over course of program$37,818$32,977
Summer internship resulted in full-time employment4%3%

CAREER DIRECTIONS

Graduates accepting jobs in the following function areas:
Consulting 48%
Finance/Accounting 21%
General Management 10%
Human Resources n/a
Marketing/Sales 12%
Management Information Systems n/a
Operations/Logistics 4%
Other 5%

Graduates accepting in the following industries:
Government (Federal, State, Local, Military) 0%
Manufacturing 43%
Non-Profit (Trade Associations, Religious Organizations, Charities, etc.) n/a
Services (Financial Services, Consulting Services, Other Services) 57%
Other n/a

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa 4%
Asia 16%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia 3%
Latin America and the Carribean 4%
Middle East n/a
North America
 (Canada: n/a / U.S.: n/a  )
10%
Oceania n/a
Western Europe 63%

Graduates accepting jobs within North America:
Canada n/a
Mid-Atlantic U.S. n/a
Midwest U.S. n/a
Northeast U.S. n/a
South U.S. n/a
Southwest U.S. n/a
U.S. Possessions and territories n/a
West U.S. n/a

MBA INTERNSHIPS

Companies that recruited internship-seeking MBA students for internships on campus in past academic year: 26

Companies that posted internships for MBA students on school's job boards during past academic year: 86

Top 15 recruiting firms for internships:
FirmInterns Hired
1. Novartis 5
2. Palm Inc 5
3. General Motors 4
4. Goldman Sachs 4
5. Morgan Stanley 4
6. Bank of America 3
7. Deutsche Bank 3
8. General Electric 3
9. Philips 3
10. Booz Allen Hamilton 2
11. Citigroup 2
12. Guidant 2
13. Lehman Brothers 2
14. Mc Kinsey & Company 2
15. Microsoft 2

Internship compensation:
Paid internships 100%
Average internship compensation (per week) n/a
Median internship compensation (per week) $820
Average internship length (weeks) 5

Career services Web site

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

University offers placement services for MBA alumni? No
Current MBA students given access to alumni database? Yes

The B-school has awarded n/a MBA degrees since its founding. It has 14,142 living MBA alumni, and 51 MBA club(s) throughout 51 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past academic year, 11% of MBA alumni gave to the school's fund-raising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. n/a, and a mean gift of U.S. $1,312.

The school has not received a gift in excess of U.S. $10 million since June 2002.

The B-school endowment is U.S. $66,000,000


ADDITIONAL SCHOOL COMMENTS

INSEAD is delighted to announce a post-gratuate "Certificate in Entrepreneurial Studies". Designed to put advanced accomplishement and experience on the résumé of the INSEAD alumni. More added value to the INSEAD MBA programme:two fully fledged campuses in Europe (Fontainebleau) and Singapore with an further option to exchange with the Wharton School in Philadelphia.

Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Helle Jensen

 
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