Good & Bad News In Duke’s Hiring Stats

‘CONSULTING QUICKLY EXPOSES MBAS TO THE GREATEST CHALLENGES’

“Duke MBAs pursue these highly competitive positions for a variety of reasons: consulting quickly and intimately exposes them to the greatest challenges companies and organizations face and offers them the chance to apply many of the frameworks and skills they learned in business school, often while working with clients in a variety of industries and at locations around the globe,” said Sheryle Dirks, associate dean for career management.

Top employers outside the consulting industry include Microsoft, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Amazon.com, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Apple. American Airlines, which was not a major employer of MBA grads at Fuqua in the previous three years, hired seven from the Class of 2013. Financial services, consumer products, and health remain popular choices among Duke MBAs. This year also saw growth in the technology sector, with 10% of graduates accepting jobs in that industry. Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook is a Fuqua MBA alum, hired four of the school’s graduates this year, down from 7 last year.

“As consumers and organizations increasingly embrace technology products and services into their daily routines, companies find value in hiring MBAs to drive innovation, bring products to market, streamline operations and distribution channels, and perform other important functions in this rapidly evolving sector,” Dirks added.

Most of the graduates (88%) accepted jobs in the U.S. Six percent of the class will work in South America. Four percent took jobs in Asia. Others will work in Europe, Africa, or non-European free trade area countries.

Major Employers Of Fuqua’s Class of 2013 MBAs and Class of 2014 MBA Interns

Source: Fuqua School of Business preliminary employment statistics for 2012-2013