Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

B-Schools That Churn Out Consultants

Best business schools for consultants

by: John A. Byrne on June 22, 2012 | 8 minute read

Leading B-Schools For Applicants Who Want To Go Into Consulting

 

School                                      Percentage of Class of 2011 In   Consulting Conversion To   Consulting* Average Starting   Salary Average Sign-On Bonus
  1, Northwestern (Kellogg) 39.0% 70% $124,262 $24,406
  1, INSEAD 39.0% 50% $115,424 $21,539**
  3. London Business School  36.0% 33% $121,050 $26,044
  4. MIT (Sloan) 33.7% 47% $125,709 $22,304
  5. Dartmouth (Tuck) 33.0% 50% $126,000 $27,000
  6. Emory (Goizueta) 31.0% 68% $115,200 $23,121
  6. Oxford (Said) 31.0% 63% $109,198 NA
  8. Duke (Fuqua) 30.0% NA $124,150 $23,750
  9. Pennsylvania (Wharton) 29.1% 53% $125,000** $20.000**
10. Cornell (Johnson) 28.0% NA $115,100 $21,800
11. Chicago (Booth) 27.8% 62% $125,000** $20,000**
12. Michigan (Ross) 27.6% NA $124,355 $20,000**
13. UC-Berkeley (Haas) 27.1% 4% $126,853 $25,872
14. Stanford GSB 27.0% 59% $123,289 $24,216
15. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 24.6% NA $112,215 $20,516
16. Harvard Business School 24.0% 20% $125,000** $20.000**
17. Yale School of Management 23.0% NA $121,189 NA
18. Columbia Business School 22.3% -20% $125,000** $23,608**
19. Virginia (Darden) 20.0% 25% $123,652 $25,745
19. Texas-Austin (McCombs) 20.0% NA $118,900 $23,085
21. New York (Stern) 19.0% 58% $122,996 $26,010
22. Indiana (Kelley) 16.0% NA $102,660 NA
23. UCLA (Anderson) 15.3% 18% NA NA
24. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 14.0% NA $117,266 $26,724

 

Source: School employment reports for the Class of 2011

Notes: All statistics for consulting industry, not consulting function which tends to be slightly higher. Conversion to consulting shows the percentage increase of students becoming consultants over the students who enter with consulting industry background ** Only median numbers available

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