full-time mba employment report class of 2015 employment class of 2016 internships Welcome Full-Time MBA Profile and Summary

2015 was an outstanding year for MBA employment in general, and for Simon Get the career you want. MBA Class of 2015 employment in particular. 100 percent of our MBA Class of 2016 obtained an internship, while 96 percent 4.96 of those seeking full-time employment in Average Years of % the MBA Class of 2015 obtained a position Work Experience 96 within three months. Accepted The number of postings from alumni 27 Employment 3 Months Post Graduation and employers worldwide has grown CMC and Students Strong MBA Student/ Average Age exponentially. In addition, we have City Visits CMC Ratio increased the number of corporate trips The Career Management Center Each full-time MBA student is assigned and treks, interviews in Rochester and 20% partners with student clubs to bring a personal career coach, who meets Under-Represented City, sponsor companies for Simon talent to major cities around with the student, advises, helps US Minorities $ international students, new companies on the country. In addition, the CMC prepare positioning materials, and 112,500 the horizon, and other important metrics. attends several national career fairs facilitates networking opportunities. undergraduate majors Average Total Compensation Our career programming and staff- and sponsors corporate tours. 36% Business and Commerce 31% Engineering for Class of 2015* to-student ratio are among the best 19% Humanities in the country. Our 100,000+ strong 9% Math and Science alumni group 5% Economics is highly engaged and connected with our students, affording numerous opportunities for networking and interviews. Top career paths for Simon students 130+ Hours of 1,270 Company We look forward to another good CMC Training Engagements year—and to interacting and working with you in the future. Career preparation begins before The 400 connections made orientation with “Day 1” and contin- with new companies puts Simon at % % % % ues into the Simon EDGE program. 1,270 engagements in the last year. 32.2 15.6 14.4 12.2 Karen Dowd Through CMC programming, students Students were placed in the core develop and hone integral skills for functions of analytics, accounting, karen dowd success in the job market. finance, marketing, pricing, operations, Financial Services Consumer Products Technology Consulting Assistant Dean strategy, consulting, and more. Career Management and Corporate Engagement

*Based on U.S. News & World Report calculations.

All figures are accurate as of October 7, 2015. Calculations for salary-related figures were prepared in adherence to the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance’s Standards for Reporting MBA Employment Statistics.

simon.rochester.edu simon business school | employment report 1 $98,200 % Full-Time MBA 2015 mean starting annual base Full-Time MBA salary for MBA graduates % 73 % +11 of Full-Time MBA graduates +7 Compensation $ Placement accepted positions from Class of 2015 18,400 Class of 2015 school-facilitated activities 2015 mean signing bonus Growth of MBA total Growth of MBA placements for MBA graduates package (salary plus from school-facilitated bonus) versus prior year activities versus prior year

Graduate Hires by Experience Graduate Hires by Region Graduate Hires by Industry work experience % hired range mean 94.4% % hired / industry mean base salary % Less than 3 years 27.8% $50,000 $94,000 $125,000 78 5.6% International 32.2% Financial Services $99,700 Accepted 3-5 years $70,000 $97,800 $135,000 Employment 30.0% % hires / regions mean base salary At Graduation 15.6% Consumer Products $90,000

More than 5 years 42.2% $72,000 $101,200 $135,000 52.9% Northeast $96,300 14.4% Technology $103,300

12.9% Midwest $98,400 12.2% Consulting $105,100

Graduate Hires by Function 12.9% South $94,000 8.9% Other $101,500 function % hired range mean

Consulting 14.4% $72,000 $110,364 $135,000 11.8% West $111,200 8.9% Manufacturing $89,600 % Finance / 60 $50,000 $94,743 $125,000 4.7% Southwest $108,800 4.4% Government / Non-Profit $80,300 Changed Accounting 41.1% Functions From Pre-MBA Career General 4.7% Mid-Atlantic $90,600 3.3% Health Care $107,300 10.0% $100,000 $110,000 $120,000 Management

Marketing / Sales 24.4% $79,200 $97,974 $125,000

% Information 5.5% $75,000 $94,000 $110,000 “Simon uses cross-functional and cross-cultural teams 173 Technology / HR Salary Increase to challenge you and make you an effective member Over Pre-MBA Operations / of a team. Working with such diversity on group projects Career for 3.3% $73,000 $79,000 $85,000 Class of 2015 Logistics and assignments will be something I will still be thanking Simon for in years to come.” All 100% $50,000 $98,200 $135,000 Senthil Sevugan MBA Class of 2015 Senior Consultant Deloitte Consulting

2 simon.rochester.edu simon business school | employment report 3 Key Companies Hiring MBA Talent Classes of 2015 and 2016

3M E.&J. Gallo Winery Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc. Rocket Internet Accenture East West Bank Levi Strauss & Co. Rockwell Automation, Inc. Access Insurance Company Eastern Union Liberty Mutual Insurance SanDisk Corporation Akzo Nobel Eastman Chemical Company M&T Bank Sling Media, Inc. ALDI Eastman Company Maine Pointe, LLC Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi) Amazon.com, Inc. Ecolab, Inc. MaloneBailey, LLP SPX Corporation Build the skills you American International Educational Pioneers Maxim Group, LLC Standard & Poor’s Financial Group, Inc. (AIG) EMC Corporation McGraw Hill Education Services LLC AOL Inc. Ernst & Young McKinsey & Company Standard Chartered need to get the AT&T Expedia, Inc. McNeil & Company, Inc. SterlingBackcheck, Inc. Avant Energy Exxon Mobil Corporation Medtronic, Inc. Strategic Investment AXA Advisors, LLC Facebook Mindspark Management, LLC career path you want. Bain & Company FBR & Co. Mitsubishi UFJ Sullivan, Cotter and Bank of America Corporation FedEx Financial Group, Inc. Associates, Inc. Bank SinoPac Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. Sundance Enterprises Inc. “The Simon program fosters intellectual Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. Fisher-Price Morgan Stanley SupplyHouse.com BASF Corporation Gallup, Inc. Mu Sigma Symantec Corporation and interpersonal growth. It prepared Bayer AG Gartner, Inc. Natixis Global Asset Target Brands, Inc. me to work in fast-pace environments Bergmann Associates GateHouse Media, LLC Management, S.A. Taylor Corporation Bigelow Tea General Electric Company Nestle Purina The Briad Group and tackle important business issues. Bloom Energy Global Strategy Group Nestle USA The Broad Residency in It was more rigorous than I anticipated, but Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH Goldman Sachs NetApp Urban Foundation Cathay Bank Google New York Jets The Camden Group it is designed to force even the brightest Ceres Technology Advisors, Inc. Grant Thornton LLP Nike, Inc. The Hertz Corporation students out of their comfort zones.” Charles River Analytics, Inc. GroupM Novo Nordisk The Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. Cigna Hewlett-Packard Oracle The Raymond Corporation Shay Freeman Cisco Development Company, L.P. Origlio Beverage The Travelers Indemnity Company Citigroup Highmark, Inc. Ovitz Corporation The Vanguard Group, Inc. MBA Class of 2015 Cloudeeva Houlihan Lokey Pandora Media, Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. Senior Global Marketing Manager Cognizant HSBC Group Panduit Corp. Towers Watson Medtronic Colgate-Palmolive Company IBM Corp. Parker Hannifin Corp Toys “R” Us, Inc. Computer Sciences Corp. IMS Health Incorporated Paychex, Inc. Twitter Concur Technologies, Inc. Infosys Limited Pernod Ricard UBS Senior Global Marketing Manager Constellation Brands, Inc. Intel Corporation Pitney Bowes, Inc. Uncommon Schools at Medtronic Credit Suisse Johnson & Johnson Price f(x) UniCredit Banking Group Daymon Worldwide, Inc. Juniper Networks, Inc. Priceline.com USARx.com MBA from Simon, Concentrating in Dell Kaiser Permanente PricewaterhouseCoopers USAA Marketing—Brand Management Track Deloitte Kellogg Co. QUESNAY VCE Brand Management Summer Associate Deutsche Bank AG Keysight Technologies Razorfish Vertafore, Inc. at Johnson & Johnson DIRECTV, LLC Kiewit Corporation Reckitt Benckiser Visa DTE Energy Company King’s Hawaiian Holding Co., Inc. Reflexite Energy Solutions WalletHub (Evolution Finance, Inc.) DZ Bank AG KPMG LLP Rich Products Corporation ZS Associates, Inc.

4 simon.rochester.edu simon business school | employment report 5 Career Management Center

recruiting and interviewing Simon Treks • SimonWorks job posting and interview scheduling service • The Simon Talent Bank • City Treks • Simon in • Simon Talent Connection No matter how Current students meet at corporate locations with company newsletter recruiters and Simon alumni for company tours and sessions • Campus-sponsored recruiting on “a day in the life of the organization,” while also learning good you are, we • Open Doors alumni / student what makes a candidate stand out in the hiring process. networking event make you better. • Advisory Boards career preparation “Simon offers the best finance program • Day 1 career readiness program in a competitive yet collaborative culture. • Power Hour Connections • Got Mock? interview preparation The personalized attention and oppor- • Job Search Essentials tunities to have a positive impact make • Executives in Residence Simon Business School a very desirable • Global Career Fair Frenzy choice.” • Acculturation and Job Search Recruiting Experiential On-Campus English for international students Hua Wang Events Learning Projects Recruiting • The American Mindset MBA Class of 2015 Company recruiting events Experiential learning Conduct on-campus or book and workshops Financial Management Associate include special-themed projects offer students the virtual interviews with Citigroup networking functions, case chance to engage their recruiters. Networking competitions, student club new business skills with events and company collaborations, and real-world challenges. presentations prepare Financial Management panel discussions. you to put your best Associate at Citigroup foot forward. MBA from Simon, Concentrating in Finance and Corporate Accounting PhD in Economics

6 simon.rochester.edu simon business school | employment report 7 Full-Time MBA Internships

internships by function, class of 2016 MBA Class of 2016 function % of hires It’s no accident Marketing / Sales 39.4% 5.2 Finance / Accounting 22.5% Average Years of Work Experience that our students General Management 15.5% excel at work. 28 Consulting 8.5% Average Age Operations / Logistics 8.5%

Human Resources 2.8% “Business is moving from an art form to 15% Information Technology 1.4% a science. Simon is giving me the tools Under-Represented US Minorities I’ll need to be effective in the modern Other 1.4% undergraduate majors global environment. To sit in a classroom internships by industry, class of 2016 and learn statistics, analytics, pricing, and 36% Business and Commerce industry % of hires 25% Humanities and Social Science business principles is incredibly valuable.” 23% Engineering Financial Services 22.5% 8% Math and Science Technology 18.3% Tim Hayward 7% Economics MBA Candidate Class of 2016 Summer Associate at Bain & Company Consulting 12.7% Consumer Packaged Goods 11.3% internship acceptances class of 2016* Manufacturing 7.0% Summer Associate at Bain & Company Non-Profit 7.0% Joined Net Impact and 100% COTA at Simon Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology / Health Care Products 5.6%

Received Law Degree Other 5.6% Accepted Internships Government 4.2%

Energy 2.8% 100% Real Estate 1.4%

Obtained Paid Internships Media / Entertainment 1.4%

*Of those Full-Time MBA students eligible to seek internships

8 simon.rochester.edu simon business school | employment report 9 mba/ms admissions career management center phone: +1.585.275.3533 phone: +1.585.275.4881 [email protected] simon.rochester.edu/careers