The Carroll School of Management MBA: What You Need To Know

Boston College’s Carroll School of Management offers MBAs a community that supports each other academically, professionally, and personally, and it’s in a prime location for a B-School – in a city said to be a leader in healthcare finance, insurance and higher education. Beyond the vast array of career opportunities, the college is home to exciting sports teams and a vibrant cultural scene, with nearly one quarter of the city’s population being graduate students. Each full-time MBA class has anywhere from 70-90 students by design to provide a personalized experience within the two-year program.

Carroll MBAs move through the two-year program in cohorts of 40 classmates, taking courses in the required curriculum and participating in a range of experiential learning opportunities including real-world consulting projects and field studies.

Guided by world-renowned faculty, first-year MBAs gain an understading of foundational business concepts while fostering connections with classmates. All students are required to take three core data analytics courses, which form an integral part of the MBA curriculum. In addition to these learning requirements, all Carroll School MBA students must complete 20 hours of community service in order to graduate from the program – an aspect unique to Carroll.

Students strengthen their foundation of essential skills during second-year electives in functional areas of management. These electives are interdisciplinary and designed to allow students to develop depth and expertise in a chosen area of study, including in Corporate Finance, Business Analytics, and Product and Brand Management.

Outside of required curriculum, some Carroll MBAs join the College Chief Executives Club – a business forum that draws in guest speakers/CEOs, with past speakers including Disney’s Bob Iger, Nike’s Mark Parker, and IBM’s Virginia Rometty. Students frequent the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship and participate in programs like Accelerate@Shea and the Strakosch Venture Competition. The Center also provides student startups with expert advice, space, and funding to launch and grow their business.

“The choice to go full-time for me was a personal decision because I wanted to really be able to focus on the business world experience. While it is a bit of a sacrifice to step away from my profession, from getting a paycheck, for me it was the right decision,” says MBA Adam Benjamin.

Rankings Data For Carroll School of Management

Ranking	Poets&Quants
2025-2026	55
2024-2025	51
2023-2024	36
2022-2023	52
2021-2022	54

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Compensation Statistics of Carroll’s MBAs

Career Statistics	2025
Average Total Compensation	$125,704

Industry Choices of Carroll’s MBA Grads

Industry	2025	2019	2015
Bio/Pharma/Healthcare	20	14	16
Consulting	11	11	16
Consumer Products	8	11	8
Financial Services	30	23	40
Manufacturing	2		6
Nonprofit	5	2
Other	7	14	1
Real Estate	2	4	3
Technology	11	23	10
Media/Entertainment	3
Energy/Natural Resources	2

Where Carroll’s MBAs Went to Work

Sample List of Hiring Employers 2023 – 2025
Acushnet/Titlelist	Fitch Solutions	PepsiCo
Adidas	Ford Motor Company	Pfizer
Amazon	Foundation Medicine	PNC Bank
American Express	Goldman Sachs	Procter & Gamble
Analysis Group	Gorton’s Seafood	Puma
Bank of America	HubSpot	PwC
Bessemer Trust	InfoSys	Raymond James
Bitcoin.com	Inspire Brands	Reckitt
Bloomberg	Johnson & Johnson	RES
Boston Children’s Hospital	JP Morgan Chase	RTX Corporation
Boston Scientific	Keurig Dr. Pepper	Sanofi
Bristol Myers Squibb	KPMG	ScottMadden
Canaccord Genuity	LG Electronics	SCS Capital
Chewy	Liberty Mutual	SharkNinja
Citigroup	M&T Bank	State Street
Citizens Financial Group	McKinsey	Sublime Systems
Commonwealth Financial Network	Mercer	Takeda
Concentric Energy Advisors	Merck	TCS
Danone	National Grid	Thermo Fisher Scientific
Deloitte	Newmark	Toast
EY	Occidental Petroleum	U.S. Soccer
Fidelity Investments	Outcome Capital	Visa