What Companies Pay MBA Interns

Where student interns go also reveals obvious strengths of many schools. Business schools sending more than a third of their first-year classes into finance include Columbia (45%), Wharton, Chicago Booth and Georgetown University’s McDonough School (38%), NYU Stern (36%), and Yale (33%) (see below table). Schools that are generating big interest in tech include UC-Berkeley’s Haas School (37%), Stanford (35%), Carnegie Mellon (35%), London Business School (26%), and the University of Texas (25%).

Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School (38%) and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (24%) lead all schools in turning out more consultant-bound MBA interns. They are closely followed by Dartmouth Tuck and Chicago Booth (22%), MIT Sloan, Virginia’s Darden School, Duke Fuqua, and Michigan Ross (21%). Leading in interns that head into consumer product companies are Emory’s Goizueta School (18%), INSEAD and Washington University (16%), Kellogg and Michigan (15%).

In healthcare and pharma, another area in which there is growing student interest, Washington University (21%), Vanderbilt (11%), and Berkeley and Carnegie (10%) are sending significant numbers of MBA students into internships.

Where MBAs Interns From Leading Business Schools Work

School	Consulting	Finance	Tech	Consumer	Healthcare
Stanford	10%	21%	35%	9%	6%
Harvard	14%	27%	21%	8%	7%
Wharton	18%	38%	16%	9%	7%
Chicago	22%	38%	16%	7%	3%
Columbia	19%	45%	11%	7%	2%
Northwestern	24%	19%	15%	15%	8%
MIT Sloan	21%	20%	21%	5%	6%
Dartmouth	22%	27%	15%	11%	8%
Duke	21%	21%	22%	10%	8%
Berkeley	18%	15%	37%	8%	10%
Michigan	21%	17%	19%	15%	7%
Yale	18%	33%	9%	9%	6%
Virginia	21%	30%	15%	8%	4%
UCLA	14%	17%	20%	2%	4%
Cornell	14%	34%	15%	13%	4%
NYU	15%	36%	3%	9%	2%
Carnegie	28%	17%	35%	7%	10%
Texas	15%	22%	25%	11%	3%
Emory	18%	33%	5%	18%	1%
Georgetown	18%	38%	5%	10%	4%
Washington Univ.	3%	21%	8%	16%	21%
Vanderbilt.	12%	22%	21%	11%	11%
London	18%	28%	26%	4%	7%
INSEAD*	16%	22%	12%	16%	6%

Source: Business school employment reports

Notes: * 55% of INSEAD students had summer internships

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