Where Stanford MBAs Work & What They Do

Where do Stanford 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 Stanford 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 Stanford MBAs as well as the most likely industries that attract its graduates.

Source: LinkedIn membership data

If you want to work for a big brand technology company, there’s no question that a Stanford MBA will open the doors. Eight of the top 13 employers are tech firms, led by Google with some 135 Stanford business grads–only a dozen less than No. 1 employer McKinsey & Co. Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, IBM and Intel are in the mix as are eBay, salesforce.com, Amazon and Facebook.

In fact, many of these high flying firms, including Apple and Facebook, don’t even make the top employers for such schools as Harvard or Wharton.

Once bitten by the Northern California bug, most Stanford grads love to stay in the area. In fact, a high number of them work for Stanford University, which is the number three employer named by LinkedIn members who have Stanford MBAs. After only McKinsey and Google comes Stanford with 131 members.

The number one industry is no surprise at all: It’s finance, with 1,588 LinkedIn members, followed by business development, and consulting. Surprisingly, perhaps, entrepreneurship is the fourth most identified status of LinkedIn members with Stanford MBAs. At Harvard Business School, it’s second after only finance.

Stanford MBAs: Where They Work & What They Do

Company	LinkedIn Members	Industry	LinkedIn Members
McKinsey & Co.	147	Finance	1,588
Google	135	Business Development	1,057
Stanford University	131	Consulting	952
Cisco Systems	123	Entrepreneur	916
Bain & Co.	96	Marketing	878
Boston Consulting Group	81	Operations	673
Hewlett-Packard	64	Administrative	608
Microsoft	64	Sales	506
Apple	44	Information Technology	457
Oracle	42	Product	453
Goldman Sachs	42	Engineering	337
IBM	39	Creative	257
Intel	37	Public Relations	256
Wells Fargo	35	Human Resources	246
Deloitte	31	Legal	109
CEMEX	30	Support	100
eBay	29	Accounting	83
salesforce.com	29	Medical	82
Merrill Lynch	28	Buyer	48
Accenture	26	Real Estate	34
Amazon	26
Facebook	25
Citicorp	25