Worst MBA Placement Records of 2012 by: John A. Byrne on April 06, 2013 | | 101,655 Views April 6, 2013 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit 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 DON’T MISS: TOP-RANKED BUSINESS SCHOOLS WITH THE WORST PLACEMENT RECORDS OF 2011 Previous PagePage 3 of 3 1 2 3 Questions about this article? Email us or leave a comment below. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.