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2004 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
UCLA
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Address: 110 Westwood Plaza
Gold Hall, Suite B201
Los Angeles, CA 90095
E-Mail: mba.admissions@anderson.ucla.edu
Web links: B-school Web site
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THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT

Most recent graduates who...
...were seeking employment 1 79%
...were not seeking employment 13%
...provided no information regarding employment 2

8%
Graduates not seeking employment that were...
...company sponsored or already employed 3 3%
...continuing their education (after graduation) 4 1%
...postponing their job search 1%
...starting their own businesses 5 7%
...not seeking employment for other reasons 6

1%
Most recent job-seeking graduates who...
...received their first job offer by graduation 78%
...received their first job offer within three months of graduation 13%
...received their first job offer more than three months after graduation n/a
...did not report having received an offer

9%
Primary source of accepted full-time job offers:
School facilitated activities 47%
Graduate-facilitated activities 53%
No response provided by the graduate

7%
Companies that recruited employment-seeking MBA students for full-time positions on campus in past academic year 186
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
Days on the Job - Wall Street Dec. None
Days on the Job - Silicon Valley Dec. None


Top 15 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year:
FirmGraduates Hired
1. Lehman Brothers 8
2. Citigroup 7
3. Amgen, Mattel 6
4. Countrywide Financial Corp.; Deloitte Consulting; McKinsey & Co. 5
5. NBC - Universal; Toyota Financial Services 4
6. Bain & Co; General Mills; Houlihan Lokey; JPMorgan Chase 3
7. Capgemini US, LLC; Yahoo; Wachovia Securities; Conagra; The Olson Company; Credit Suisse First Boston; Del Monte Foods; Goldman Sachs & Co.; Harrah's 2
8. Ford Motor Co.; Boeing; Avery Dennison; Bank of America; Dodge & Cox; Bear Stearns; HBO; KB Home; Black & Decker; Oracle; Universal Music Group; PG&E 1

Historic salary prospects for recent grads (school reported):
200420032002
Graduates who provided usable base salary information91%58%53%
Average starting-base salary 7 (excluding bonuses)$87,022$83,168$82,715
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses)$85,000$85,000$85,000
Average first-year signing bonus$15,621$13,979$18,280
Median first-year signing bonus$15,000$15,000$20,000
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus55%58%43%

(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$85,000$85,000
Median signing bonus$12,000$15,000
Median other compensation$30,000$25,000
Median MBA loans$37,000$29,000
Average number of job offers at graduation2.01.3
Average living expenses (not including tuition) over course of program$49,515$47,986
Summer internship resulted in full-time employment49%32%

CAREER DIRECTIONS

Graduates accepting jobs in the following function areas:
Consulting 15%
Finance/Accounting 43%
General Management 11%
Human Resources 1%
Marketing/Sales 20%
Management Information Systems 1%
Operations/Logistics 3%
Other 7%

Graduates accepting in the following industries:
Government (Federal, State, Local, Military) 1%
Manufacturing 21%
Non-Profit (Trade Associations, Religious Organizations, Charities, etc.) 0%
Services (Financial Services, Consulting Services, Other Services) 79%
Other 0%

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa 0%
Asia 2%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia 0%
Latin America and the Carribean 1%
Middle East 0%
North America
 (Canada: 0% / U.S.: 100%)
94%
Oceania 0%
Western Europe 2%

Graduates accepting jobs within North America:
Canada 0%
Mid-Atlantic U.S. 1%
Midwest U.S. 4%
Northeast U.S. 9%
South U.S. 2%
Southwest U.S. 0%
U.S. Possessions and territories 0%
West U.S. 85%

MBA INTERNSHIPS

Companies that recruited internship-seeking MBA students for internships on campus in past academic year: 106

Companies that posted internships for MBA students on school's job boards during past academic year: 145

Top 15 recruiting firms for internships:
FirmInterns Hired
1. Deloitte Consulting 9
2. Countrywide Financial Corp.; Mattel 8
3. Lehman Brothers 7
4. Amgen; Disney; Nestle USA 6
5. Intel Corporation; Merrill Lynch 5
6. Toyota Motor Sales; JP Morgan 4
7. Allergan; Ford Motor Company; Goldman Sachs & Company; Honeywell; IBM; Wells Fargo; Yahoo 3
8. Sony Pictures; Autodesk; Bain & Co; BEA Systems; Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Boston Consulting Group; Citigroup; Credit Suisse First Boston; DirecTV 2
9. Agilent Technologies; Barclays Global Investors; Bear Stearns; CBS Television Network; Conexant Systems, Inc.; Epson U.S.A.; Guidant; Leo Burnett; NBC 1

Internship compensation:
Paid internships 82%
Average internship compensation (per week) $1,249
Median internship compensation (per week) $1,250
Average internship length (weeks) 12

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 17,486 MBA degrees since its founding. It has 16,348 living MBA alumni, and 24 MBA club(s) throughout 10 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past academic year, 17% of MBA alumni gave to the school's fund-raising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $200, and a mean gift of U.S. $1,024.

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

The B-school endowment is U.S. $61,260,000


ADDITIONAL SCHOOL COMMENTS

Regarding scholarship consideration, first-year students apply as part of the admissions application and second-year students apply with a unique scholarship application.

Regarding guaranteed loans, the school offers private loans (but not guaranteed) and the maximum amount of these loans is $18,500.

The March 2, 2005 deadline is for FAFSA and the May 1, 2005 deadline is for second-year students applying for fellowships.

We do not disclose number of wait-listed applicants.


Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Philip Little

 
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