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2005 FULL-TIME MBA PROFILE
Washington University in St. Louis
Olin School of Business
Address: Campus Box 1133
1 Brookings Drive
Saint Louis, MO 63130
E-Mail: mba@olin.wustl.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 18%
...provided no information regarding employment 2

3%
Graduates not seeking employment that were...
...company sponsored or already employed 3 10%
...continuing their education (after graduation) 4 2%
...postponing their job search 1%
...starting their own businesses 5 4%
...not seeking employment for other reasons 6

1%
Most recent job-seeking graduates who...
...received their first job offer by graduation 83%
...received their first job offer within three months of graduation 9%
...received their first job offer more than three months after graduation n/a
...did not report having received an offer

8%
Primary source of accepted full-time job offers:
School facilitated activities 65%
Graduate-facilitated activities 34%
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
MBA Wall Street Trip Nov. Partial
Silicon Valley Road Show Jan. Partial
New York Marketing Road Show Nov. Partial
n/a
n/a


Top 15 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year:
FirmGraduates Hired
1. Emerson 7
2. Fiduciary Asset Management 4
3. A.G. Edwards and Sons, Inc. 3
4. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 3
5. Citigroup 3
6. ECG Management Consulting, Inc. 3
7. Amdocs, Inc. 2
8. Credit Suisse First Boston 2
9. Dell Inc. 2
10. Deloitte Consulting 2
11. Ford Motor Company 2
12. Guidant Corp. 2
13. Lehman Brothers, Inc. 2
14. McKinsey & Company 2
15. Microsoft Corporation 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)$80,204$78,691$72,000n/a
Median starting-base salary (excluding bonuses)$82,750$80,000$75,000n/a
Average first-year signing bonus$14,062$9,444$9,800$15,700
Median first-year signing bonus$12,000$10,000$10,000$15,000
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus62%58%49%62%

(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 27%
Finance/Accounting 39%
General Management 9%
Human Resources 1%
Marketing/Sales 22%
Management Information Systems 0%
Operations/Logistics 1%
Other 1%

Graduates accepting in the following industries:
Government (Federal, State, Local, Military) 2%
Manufacturing 45%
Non-Profit (Trade Associations, Religious Organizations, Charities, etc.) n/a
Services (Financial Services, Consulting Services, Other Services) 53%
Other n/a

Graduates accepting jobs in the following regions:
Africa n/a
Asia 13%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia n/a
Latin America and the Carribean n/a
Middle East n/a
North America
 (Canada: n/a / U.S.: n/a  )
n/a
Oceania n/a
Western Europe 3%

Graduates accepting jobs within North America:
Canada n/a
Mid-Atlantic U.S. 3%
Midwest U.S. 48%
Northeast U.S. 11%
South U.S. 2%
Southwest U.S. 8%
U.S. Possessions and territories n/a
West U.S. 11%

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. Emerson 8
2. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 6
3. Johnson & Johnson 3
4. Sigma-Aldrich Corp. 2
5. Colgate Palmolive Company 2
6. DBS Bank 2
7. Guidant Corp. 2
8. Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. 2
9. Insituform Technologies, Inc. 2
10. Mead Johnson Nutritionals 2
11. Nestle Purina Pet Care 2
12. Sprint Nextel Corp. 2
13. TechGuard Security 2
14. Citigroup 1
15. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 1

Internship compensation:
Paid internships 100%
Average internship compensation (per week) $986
Median internship compensation (per week) $1,154
Average internship length (weeks) 10

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 8,295 living MBA alumni, and 44 MBA club(s) throughout 14 countries, where B-school alums can participate in school activities and alumni events.

During the past academic year, 24% 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. $454.

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

The B-school endowment is U.S. $193,190,997

Information found in this survey was provided on behalf of the B-school by Deborah Booker

 
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