Why IMD Is Reporting Three-Year Pay Stats

A Three-Year View: Where IMD Grads Go To Work

Source: IMD three-year employment report

TOP EMPLOYERS OF IMD GRADS INCLUDE AMAZON, GOOGLE, MCKINSEY & BCG

Over the past three years, IMD said its top ten hiring companies were Amazon, DuPont, Google, Johnson & Johnson Services, McKinsey & Co., Nestle, Royal Dutch Shell, Samsung, Siemens, The Boston Consulting Group.

By combining three years worth of results, IMD also was able to more impressively report that 202 different companies had participated in on-campus recruiting and made at least one offer to IMD’s MBA grads. That’s significantly higher than the mere 78 companies that came on campus and made at least one offer in 2012.

The school said that 93% of its graduates in the past three years used their MBA degree to change function, industry or geography, while 74% changed two or more “dimensions of their career.” A third of all the graduates did the triple jump, changing out their function, industry and location thanks to the MBA.

INSEAD AND LONDON OFFER MORE TRANSPARENCY IN THEIR EMPLOYMENT REPORTS

While the three-year report would make it easier to report more data, including salary and bonus per industry and job offers at graduation and three months later, IMD chose not to do so. London Business School and INSEAD tend to have far more transparent reporting of employment statistics, but those schools have much larger graduating classes.

Some of these numbers leak out anyway in various rankings. The Economist, for example, last year reported that among the top 100 schools that it ranks, IMD was 31st in the percentage of graduates with jobs three months after graduation. That was a drop from a rank of seven in 2012. Not surprisingly, those numbers caused a decline in student satisfaction with IMD’s career services function. In 2012, student assessments of IMD’s career office impressively put it fourth among the 100 ranked schools. Last year it fell to 16th, still a pretty good showing but not nearly as good as a year earlier.

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