Worst MBA Placement Records of 2012

A larger number of 25 unranked schools, providing data to U.S. News, reported “unemployment” rates in excess of 50% at graduation last year. The absolute worst? Northern Illinois University’s business school where 90.6% of the full-time MBAs were jobless at commencement. Some of these schools recovered nicely after three months, though. The University of Scranton, for example, with a full-time MBA enrollment of 506 students, had an “unemployment rate” of 84% at graduation. Three months later, however, only 7.4% of its 2012 graduating class was unemployed.

Other Business Schools With Mediocre Placement Stats for 2012

 

School                                                         Unemployed At 2012 Graduation     Unemployed 3 Months Later
Northern Illinois University 90.6% 71.9%
UC-Riverside (Anderson) 90.2% 33.3%
University of Illinois-Chicago (Liautaud) 90.0% 40.0%
Cleveland State 85.3% 85.3%
Florida International University 84.7% 83.3%
University of Scranton 84.0% 7.4%
Alfred University 80.0% 80.0%
University of Texas at El Paso 78.6% 73.2%
Rochester Institute of Tech (Saunders) 74.0% 42.5%
Belmont University 73.9% 43.5%
Clemson University 73.1% 53.8%
Arkansas State University 68.4% 36.8%
Hofstra University (Zarb) 66.7% 53.3%
Portland State University 66.7% 27.3%
St. John’s University (Tobin) 64.3% 27.9%
University of Tampa 63.5% 44.4%
Texas Tech (Rawls) 61.1% 61.1%
Willamette University (Atkinson) 58.8% 18.3%
University of Kansas 60.0% 46.7%
University of Denver (Daniels) 59.3% 31.5%
Oregon State University 58.8% 35.3%
Pittsburgh State University (Kelce) 56.2% 56.2%
Chapman University 55.0% 25.0%
University of Central Florida 51.6% 25.8%
Rollins College (Crummer) 51.2% 22.6%
Pace University (Lubin) 50.6% 26.0%

Source: Business schools reporting to U.S. News & World Report

Source: Business schools reporting to U.S. News & World Report

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