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2005 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
Fordham University
Fordham Business
Address: 113 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
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Web links: B-school Web site

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THE FULL-TIME JOB HUNT

Most recent graduates who...
...were seeking employment 1 77%
...were not seeking employment 15%
...provided no information regarding employment 2

8%
Graduates not seeking employment that were...
...company sponsored or already employed 3 26%
...continuing their education (after graduation) 4 17%
...postponing their job search 22%
...starting their own businesses 5 9%
...not seeking employment for other reasons 6

26%
Most recent job-seeking graduates who...
...received their first job offer by graduation 61%
...received their first job offer within three months of graduation 19%
...received their first job offer more than three months after graduation 9%
...did not report having received an offer

11%
Primary source of accepted full-time job offers:
School facilitated activities 28%
Graduate-facilitated activities 46%
No response provided by the graduate

26%
Companies that recruited employment-seeking MBA students for full-time positions on campus in past academic year 98
Companies that posted full-time job offers on the school's job boards in past academic year 176

Annual job-searching trips the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination Month offered Amount paid by school
Int'l MBA Conference - Orlando, FL Oct.
National Society of Hispanic MBA's - Anaheim, CA Sept. None
National Black MBA conference - San Diego, CA Oct.
n/a
n/a


Top 15 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year:
FirmGraduates Hired
1. Deloitte & Touche 3
2. Ernst & Young 3
3. Bear Stearns 2
4. Citigroup 2
5. HSBC 2
6. Bearing Point 1
7. Boeing 1
8. Convers Agent 1
9. Creative Well 1
10. CW Capital 1
11. Dannon 1
12. Digitas 1
13. Gap 1
14. Goldman Sachs 1
15. Henry Schein 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)$79,761$79,354$70,453n/a
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses)$80,000$79,500$70,500n/a
Average first-year signing bonus$10,875$9,565$12,025$11,375
Median first-year signing bonus$9,375$8,000$14,500$8,000
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus26%24%21%26%

(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 11%
Finance/Accounting 48%
General Management 6%
Human Resources 2%
Marketing/Sales 18%
Management Information Systems 3%
Operations/Logistics 4%
Other 8%

Graduates accepting in the following industries:
Government (Federal, State, Local, Military) 0%
Manufacturing 7%
Non-Profit (Trade Associations, Religious Organizations, Charities, etc.) 3%
Services (Financial Services, Consulting Services, Other Services) 79%
Other 11%

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa 0%
Asia 8%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia 0%
Latin America and the Carribean 0%
Middle East 0%
North America
 (Canada: 0% / U.S.: 100%)
90%
Oceania 0%
Western Europe 2%

Graduates accepting jobs within North America:
Canada 0%
Mid-Atlantic U.S. 0%
Midwest U.S. 0%
Northeast U.S. 91%
South U.S. 0%
Southwest U.S. 0%
U.S. Possessions and territories 0%
West U.S. 9%

MBA INTERNSHIPS

Companies that recruited internship-seeking MBA students for internships on campus in past academic year 77
Companies that posted internships for MBA students on school's job boards during past academic year 198

Top 15 recruiting firms for internships:
FirmInterns Hired
1. Bank of New York 3
2. Ernst & Young 3
3. Merck 3
4. Price Waterhouse 3
5. UBS 3
6. Ardour Capital 2
7. Fairchild Publications 2
8. G Holdings 2
9. Greenwich Consultants 2
10. MBIA 2
11. Sony-BMG 2
12. Time/Little Brown 2
13. A. C. Nielson 1
14. AMEX 1
15. Bank of America 1

Internship compensation:
Paid internships 81%
Average internship compensation (per week) $1,180
Median internship compensation (per week) $1,040
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 13,019 living MBA alumni, and 26 MBA club(s) throughout 2 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past academic year, 5% of MBA 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. $686.

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

The B-school endowment is U.S. $5,397,887

Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Rosanne Conte

 
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