Where MIT Sloan MBAs Work & What They Do

Where do Sloan MBAs work and in what industries?

With its wealth of membership data, LinkedIn is now providing a glimpse into this answer. Of course, not all Sloan MBAs are registered with the professional networking site so it’s an obviously incomplete list. Even so, the data provides an interesting window into the most likely employers of Sloanies as well as the most likely industries that attract its graduates.

Source: LinkedIn membership data

Perhaps the single biggest surprise is the number two employer of Sloan MBAs? It’s MIT, according to LinkedIn, right after McKinsey & Co., the powerhouse consulting giant. As you’d expect given the reputation of MIT as a home for engineers and hi tech people, technology looms large among the top employers of Sloan MBAs.

In the top ten, for example, are IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. But go just a bit further down the list and you’ll find Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, EMC, and Dell.

There’s also the big financial service firms, with Citicorp being the largest single employer of Sloan MBAs who have chosen finance as their field. But Goldman Sachs is not far behind. Boston-based Fidelity Investments also employs a sizable number of Sloan alums, some 51 LinkedIn members with Sloan MBAs say that Fidelity is their current employer.

Like all the other top business schools, most Sloan alums work in the finance function which has some 1,212 LinkedIn members. Business development is a close second, however, with 1,043 Sloan MBAs on LinkedIn, while consulting is third with 1,026 LinkedIn members.

Information technology is the fourth most popular field for Sloan MBAs–and that is a significant difference from most other business school alumni networks.

MIT Sloan: Where the MBAs Work & What They Do

Company	LinkedIn Members	Industry	LinkedIn Members
McKinsey & Co.	187	Finance	1,212
MIT	148	Business Development	1,043
IBM	102	Consulting	1,026
Google	92	Information Technology	949
Boston Consulting Group	88	Administrative	894
Microsoft	79	Operations	733
Amazon	73	Entrepreneur	678
Citicorp	67	Marketing	649
Goldman Sachs	66	Engineering	638
Bain & Co.	66	Product	591
Intel	65	Sales	446
Deloitte	62	Public Relations	236
Cisco Systems	55	Human Resources	177
Oracle	51	Creative	165
Fidelity	51	Support	126
Hewlett-Packard	50	Legal	64
Accenture	47	Medical	62
Vale	47	Accounting	59
EMC	45	Buyer	42
Boeing	44	Real Estate	27
Dell	41
Facebook	25
Barclays Capital	33
Morgan Stanley	33