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2005 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
Babson College
Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business — Two-Year MBA Program
Address: Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02457
E-Mail: mbaadmission@babson.edu
Web links: B-school Web site
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THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT

Most recent graduates who...
...were seeking employment 1 65%
...were not seeking employment 25%
...provided no information regarding employment 2

9%
Graduates not seeking employment that were...
...company sponsored or already employed 3 8%
...continuing their education (after graduation) 4 8%
...postponing their job search 35%
...starting their own businesses 5 49%
...not seeking employment for other reasons 6

0%
Most recent job-seeking graduates who...
...received their first job offer by graduation 66%
...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

8%
Primary source of accepted full-time job offers:
School facilitated activities 58%
Graduate-facilitated activities 33%
No response provided by the graduate

9%
Companies that recruited employment-seeking MBA students for full-time positions on campus in past academic year 93
Companies that posted full-time job offers on the school's job boards in past academic year 323

Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination Month offered Amount paid by school
NSMBA -- Anaheim Oct. Partial
Dean's Fall Tour -- Chicago Oct. Full
Dean's Fall Tour -- New York Oct. Full
Dean's Fall Tour -- Miami Oct. Full
Dean's Fall Tour -- San Francisco Oct. Full


Top 15 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year:
FirmGraduates Hired
1. Fidelity Investments 5
2. EMC Corporation 4
3. General Electric 3
4. Deloitte & Touche 3
5. IBM 2
6. Morgan Stanley 2
7. Procter & Gamble 2
8. Liberty Mutual 2
9. Estee Lauder Cos. 1
10. Dunkin Brands 1
11. CIGNA 1
12. Prudential Financial 1
13. Merrill Lynch 1
14. PepsiCo 1
15. Reebok International 1

Historic salary prospects for recent grads (school reported):
2005200420032002
Graduates who provided usable base salary informationn/an/an/an/a
Average starting-base salary 7 (excluding bonuses)$80,861$74,453$69,300n/a
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses)$80,000$75,000$70,000n/a
Average first-year signing bonus$11,050$11,460$9,200$9,400
Median first-year signing bonus$10,000$10,000$10,000$10,000
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus24%11%24%25%

(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.

CAREER DIRECTIONS

Graduates accepting jobs in the following function areas:
Consulting 17%
Finance/Accounting 23%
General Management 17%
Human Resources 2%
Marketing/Sales 27%
Management Information Systems 1%
Operations/Logistics 1%
Other 11%

Graduates accepting in the following industries:
Government (Federal, State, Local, Military) 2%
Manufacturing 19%
Non-Profit (Trade Associations, Religious Organizations, Charities, etc.) 1%
Services (Financial Services, Consulting Services, Other Services) 44%
Other 33%

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa 0%
Asia 8%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia 0%
Latin America and the Carribean 3%
Middle East 0%
North America
 (Canada: 0% / U.S.: 100%)
86%
Oceania 0%
Western Europe 2%

Graduates accepting jobs within North America:
Canada 0%
Mid-Atlantic U.S. 1%
Midwest U.S. 6%
Northeast U.S. 67%
South U.S. 5%
Southwest U.S. 1%
U.S. Possessions and territories 1%
West U.S. 6%

MBA INTERNSHIPS

Companies that recruited internship-seeking MBA students for internships on campus in past academic year 14
Companies that posted internships for MBA students on school's job boards during past academic year 160

Top 15 recruiting firms for internships:
FirmInterns Hired
1. Fidelity Investments 6
2. EMC 6
3. Home Depot 6
4. Ocean Spray 3
5. Nongfu Shanquan 3
6. Hasbro 3
7. Solutia 3
8. Booz Allen Hamilton 2
9. Raytheon 2
10. Community Wealth Ventures 2
11. Goldman Sachs 1
12. Arnold Worldwide 1
13. Irving Oil 1
14. Biogen 1
15. Oppenheimer Funds 1

Internship compensation:
Paid internships 95%
Average internship compensation (per week) $1,160
Median internship compensation (per week) $1,000
Average internship length (weeks) 10

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 n/a MBA degrees since its founding. It has 14,800 living MBA alumni, and 68 MBA club(s) throughout 37 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past academic year, 21% of MBA alumni gave to the school's fund-raising efforts. They gave a median gift of U.S. $1,073, and a mean gift of U.S. $75.

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

The B-school endowment is U.S. $179,152,231

Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Gene Begin

 
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