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2004 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Sloan School of Management
Address: 50 Memorial Drive
Room E52-101
Cambridge, MA 02142
E-Mail: mbaadmissions@sloan.mit.edu
Web links: B-school Web site
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THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT

Most recent graduates who...
...were seeking employment 1 78%
...were not seeking employment 16%
...provided no information regarding employment 2

6%
Graduates not seeking employment that were...
...company sponsored or already employed 3 10%
...continuing their education (after graduation) 4 1%
...postponing their job search 1%
...starting their own businesses 5 3%
...not seeking employment for other reasons 6

1%
Most recent job-seeking graduates who...
...received their first job offer by graduation 91%
...received their first job offer within three months of graduation 95%
...received their first job offer more than three months after graduation n/a
...did not report having received an offer

5%
Primary source of accepted full-time job offers:
School facilitated activities 69%
Graduate-facilitated activities 30%
No response provided by the graduate

1%
Companies that recruited employment-seeking MBA students for full-time positions on campus in past academic year n/a
Companies that posted full-time job offers on the school's job boards in past academic year n/a

Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination Month offered Amount paid by school
NY Banking Day Oct. Partial
EuroTrek Nov. None
Media Tech - NY/LA/Las Vegas Jan. None
Silicon Valley Trek Jan. None
Mass BioPharma Trek Jan. None


Top 15 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year:
FirmGraduates Hired
1. McKinsey 26
2. Boston Consulting Group 11
3. Bain & Co. 10
4. IBM 8
5. Citigroup 6
6. Raytheon 5
7. Intel 4
8. Monitor Group 4
9. Thomson Corp 4
10. Amazon.com 3
11. Microsoft 3
12. Booz-Allen Hamilton 3
13. Deutsche Bank 3
14. Morgan Stanley 3
15. Lehman Brothers 3

Historic salary prospects for recent grads (school reported):
200420032002
Graduates who provided usable base salary information98%97%93%
Average starting-base salary 7 (excluding bonuses)$94,131$88,217$87,702
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses)$95,000$89,000$85,000
Average first-year signing bonus$14,451$16,629$19,334
Median first-year signing bonus$10,000$15,000$20,000
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus69%66%68%

(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$98,000$86,000
Median signing bonus$10,000$20,000
Median other compensation$20,000$30,000
Median MBA loans$50,000$42,000
Average number of job offers at graduation2.41.6
Average living expenses (not including tuition) over course of program$60,541$54,379
Summer internship resulted in full-time employment56%34%

CAREER DIRECTIONS

Graduates accepting jobs in the following function areas:
Consulting 35%
Finance/Accounting 24%
General Management 11%
Human Resources 0%
Marketing/Sales 10%
Management Information Systems 1%
Operations/Logistics 12%
Other 7%

Graduates accepting in the following industries:
Government (Federal, State, Local, Military) 0%
Manufacturing 29%
Non-Profit (Trade Associations, Religious Organizations, Charities, etc.) 1%
Services (Financial Services, Consulting Services, Other Services) 70%
Other 0%

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa 0%
Asia 4%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia 0%
Latin America and the Carribean 3%
Middle East 0%
North America
 (Canada: 0% / U.S.: 100%)
87%
Oceania 0%
Western Europe 7%

Graduates accepting jobs within North America:
Canada 0%
Mid-Atlantic U.S. 5%
Midwest U.S. 6%
Northeast U.S. 51%
South U.S. 5%
Southwest U.S. 5%
U.S. Possessions and territories 0%
West U.S. 15%

MBA INTERNSHIPS

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

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

Top 15 recruiting firms for internships:
FirmInterns Hired
1. McKinsey 15
2. Goldman. Sachs 11
3. Microsoft 7
4. Bain 6
5. JP Morgan/Chase 6
6. Lehman 6
7. Booz Allen Hamilton 5
8. Boston Consulting Group 5
9. Deutsche Bank 5
10. Pfizer 5
11. BEA Systems 4
12. IBM 4
13. Merck 4
14. Merrill Lynch 4
15. Morgan Stanley 4

Internship compensation:
Paid internships n/a
Average internship compensation (per week) $1,438
Median internship compensation (per week) $1,500
Average internship length (weeks) n/a

Career services Web site

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

University offers placement services for MBA alumni? Yes
Current MBA students given access to alumni database? Yes

The B-school has awarded 9,109 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 8,845 living MBA alumni, and 32 MBA club(s) throughout 16 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past academic year, n/a 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. n/a.

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

The B-school endowment is U.S. $413,000,000


ADDITIONAL SCHOOL COMMENTS

Over 60+ clubs that are recreational, professional, social and cultural. Demographics: 3% (Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Other Hispanic Americans combined). Citizenship: 1. Central Asia and Middle East numbers are included in Asia numbers; 2. Eastern and Central Europe are reported in Europe (not Western) numbers. Admissions: note that the majority of reapplicants were candidates admitted in previous years; hence the high acceptance rate.

Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Peter Maher

 
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