INSEAD’s MBA Value Proposition In 10 Charts

The year of COVID at INSEAD

By now, you know that consulting is big at INSEAD. So here's a look at the annual hires from INSEAD of the consulting firms that routinely take the most MBA graduates into their workforces. No one beats McKinsey, which hired 124 INSEAD MBAs out of the Class of 2020, with 55 of those hires returning to their former employer. The Boston Consulting Group is a distant second with 80 ires, including 28 former employees, while Bain & Co. is third, with 61 INSEAD hires, 26 of whom returned to Bain after graduation.

And how about the booming tech industry? Amazon, which recruits roughly 1,000 new MBAs every year, is at the top. Amazon hiring of INSEAD MBAs peaked in 2017 when the e-commerce behemoth brought aboard 56 graduates. Last year, Amazon hired 37 INSEAD MBAs to maintain its number one position in tech hires. Microsoft, Apple and Google also are consistently active at INSEAD but in far smaller numbers. Last year, for example, Microsoft employed just 7 INSEAD MBAs, well off its peak hiring at the school in 2016.

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So what do INSEAD MBAs actually do when they graduate from the school? A very high percentage of them are recruited into leadership development programs by a wide range of companies from Adidas and Johnson & Johnson to Siemens and Kraft/Heinz. A surprising percentage--nearly 18%--take on jobs in sales and marketing. Some 17% go into business development or corporate planning positions, and about 10% land roles in project management.

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