Who really hires the most MBAs at the leading business schools in the U.S.? Sure, you know McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are there, and so is Amazon and Google. But who else? And what percentage of the graduating class at top MBA programs are actually hired by these firms?
In a rare and exclusive look at elite MBA employment, we present the top ten employers of MBA graduates at 24 of the leading business schools over the past three years. Only a few business schools disclose a ranked listing of top employers, and when they do, the schools limit those lists to a single graduating class.
McKinsey, Bain and BCG maintain their attraction for MBA graduates from M7 programs. Indeed, for all M7 programs, MBB ranks at the top (though Google ties BCG at Stanford’s #3, according to Menlo’s analysis. “In addition to the clear relationship between M7 attendance and placement at an MBB firm, listings for programs outside the M7 reveal strong placement rates at the Big Four strategy consulting firms, or Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, and EY-Parthenon,” adds White. “Placements at Deloitte and EY-Parthenon are especially high across the board.”
Top Five Employers At Each Of 24 Leading U.S. Business Schools
| Business School | Top 5 Employers | % Hired |
|---|---|---|
| Stanford GSB | McKinsey, Bain, Google, BCG & Amazon | 12.8% |
| Harvard Business School | McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Amazon & Google | 18.4% |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Amazon, Deloitte & Google | 19.8% |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | BCG, McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte & Amazon | 37.0% |
| Chicago (Booth) | McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Amazon & Strategy& | 23.9% |
| Columbia Business School | McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Amazon & Goldman | 14.7% |
| MIT (Sloan) | BCG, McKinsey, Bain, Amazon & Google | 22.3% |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | Bain, McKinsey, BCG, Amazon & Deloitte | 23.9% |
| UC-Berkeley (Haas) | McKinsey, Amazon, Deloitte, Google & BCG | 18.7% |
| Virginia (Darden) | BCG, McKinsey, Amazon, Bain & Accenture | 20.6% |
| Yale SOM | McKinsey, Bain, Amazon, BCG, Deloitte | 17.8% |
| Duke (Fuqua) | Amazon, Deloitte, McKinsey, BCG & Microsoft | 18.9% |
| Michigan (Ross) | Amazon, EY-Parthenon, McKinsey, Deloitte & BCG | 22.1% |
| Texas (McCombs) | Amazon, Deloitte, PwC, Dell, PepsiCo, JPMorgan & BCG | 13.4% |
| Cornell (Johnson) | EY-Parthenon, Amazon, McKinsey, Deloitte & Citi | 17.7% |
| UCLA (Anderson) | Amazon, Deloitte, BCG, EY-Parthenon & McKinsey | 11.1% |
| New York (Stern) | Amazon, McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte & Credit Suisse | 15.2% |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | Deloitte, Amazon, PwC, AlixPartners & McKinsey | 18.4% |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | Amazon, Deloitte, Dell, McKinsey & WalMart | 9.5% |
| Emory (Goizueta) | EY-Parthenon, Deloitte, PwC, Accenture & Bain | 19.3% |
| Southern California (Marshall) | Deloitte, EY-Parthenon, PwC, Cisco & Amazon | 11.0% |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | EY-Parthenon, Deloitte, Amazon, Booz Allen & PwC | 12.6% |
| Washington (Foster) | Amazon, Microsoft, PwC, Accenture & PK | 23.0% |
| Rice (Jones) | EY-Parthenon, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, Alvarez & Marsal & Accenture | 15.2% |
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