12 Charts That Tell The Wharton MBA Story

The cover of Wharton’s 2005 far more transparent and revealing employment report

Wharton’s Incredible Shrinking MBA Employment Report

Look at how Wharton used to report its compensation data in its employment report. Then, look at how Wharton now does it.

Here are snippets of the 20-page employment report for 2005:

The transparency and level of detail back in 2005 let MBA applicants know exactly what to expect from a Wharton MBA.

 

Here’s how Wharton reported compensation by industry in 2005.

And now a look at the skimpy, less transparent data in the four-page Class of 2020 employment report:

Wharton not only no longer reports total compensation. It doesn’t even report out signing bonuses and guaranteed year-end bonuses by industry nor a lot of other cool data.

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