<p>What undergraduate program sends most kids to the top consulting firms?(McKinsey, Monitor, Lehman Brothers, etc.)</p>
<p>I'm not talking about Investment Bank.
Let's rank some undergraduate programs based on their attractiveness to
the top consulting firms only.</p>
<p>Consulting firms are big-time prestige wh0res who care solely about brand name and reputation more than anything else. They tend to recruit ONLY from the following:</p>
<p>1.) Ivy League.
2.) MIT
3.) Stanford, Duke, NYU Stern, prestigious private undergraduate universities
3.) Top 25-30 national universities</p>
<p>That's IT. Again, consulting firms don't recruit based on your aptitudes or what sort of skills you have. They recruit solely on the brand name of the school.</p>
<p>on the other hand, accounting firms (the Big 4) tend to recruit heavily based on skill set you have. Ditto for engineering firms.</p>
<p>Probably absolute top is MIT and Caltech grads who are articulate followed by the ivies.</p>
<p>MIT or Caltech will never surpass the Ivys in any type of recruiting except for engineering/CS/tech stuff. Saying so will force me to laugh in your face.</p>
<p>This thread talked about this topic.</p>
<p>Ivies, Stanford, and Duke.</p>
<p>Of the Ivies, Wharton (+Penn generally) / Harvard / Yale / Princeton probably send the most to consulting.</p>
<p>Actually all of them do tremendously well. Dartmouth does just about as well as HYP, Columbia does very well also.</p>
<p>The truth is come from any of the elites and you have more than a fighting chance.</p>
<p>if you read this thread, you'll see most people here are just talking out of their ass. Northwestern gets more recruiting than MIT and half of the ivies, and Caltech and NYU aren't even on the list.</p>
<p>not to mention that bain, mercer, monitor, deloitte, and a bunch of others whose names slip my mind right now were all tabled right next to each other (i think all had resume drops too!)</p>
<p>Not to mention that Lehman Brothers is an investment bank, not a consulting firm.</p>
<p>i forgot to add: all were tabled next to each other at Cornell's career fair two weeks ago</p>
<p>MIT doesn't get recruited at much because they know not that large a proportion of students are interested in consulting while they are sophomores/junios...but MIT student obviously still apply for these jobs and get them</p>
<p>Just my theory...its just that MIT probably has a smaller proportion of businessy people than the Ivies Stanford Duke etc.</p>
<p>MIT has one of the best, if not the best, business schools in the country, why they are not recruited by consulting firms as heavily as other schools is a mystery to me, they definitely have business students so it's not that,</p>
<p>sloan is supposed to have a very tech-y and science-y focus, which you can even see here ( <a href="http://mitsloan.mit.edu/undergrad/ac-core.php%5B/url%5D">http://mitsloan.mit.edu/undergrad/ac-core.php</a> ) through the sloan gen ed requirements of linear algebra, etc. and that is in addition to the already-required two calculus courses, two physics courses, chem, etc. that is required just by MIT, and maybe consulting firms aren't as interested in recruiting people who are so heavily educated in science as they are in students more versed in the writing intensive/abstract liberal arts</p>
<p>actually elsidsdgs, i think you missed what I was saying - I was saying a smaller proportion of students at MIT undergrad are interested in consulting right off the bat, which might explain why less consulting firms are present at undergrad recruiting events (which are geared towards juniors and sometimes sophomores).</p>
<p>FWIW, Deloitte took out a quarter-page ad in the Michigan Daily last week.</p>
<p>You shouldn't try to read too much into these stats. Consulting firms know which programs are good and which schools are good. They just play the odds in different ways. And they try to get ahead of each other. I have contacts in two major consulting companies who always ask me for recommendations from some of my toughest classes. This year I gave them five names and they contacted those kids directly [outside of the official visit]. I am sure the same is true for MIT, Caltech, and other schools where there may not always be enough students interested in consultancy to justify a schoolwide flyout on a regular basis.</p>
<p>If anybody wants to give a list of the top consulting firms*, I can verify whether or not they were at the MIT career fair this year, and what majors they were interested in hiring. (Many companies are not just after Sloan grads, but are also extremely interested in hiring engineering majors.)</p>
<p>My apologies in advance for being a scientist... I don't even know what consulting *is, let alone which companies are good at it. :) I do know that the five companies listed in the previous thread (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Mercer, Monitor) were all at the career fair this year, recruiting students from all majors for employment.</p>
<p>Recruiting is more than just having a table at a career fair or an ad in the newspaper. Companies present at job fairs all the time. </p>
<p>Recruiting is also about how strong of a prescence the firm has on campus (i.e. how many interviews they take). While a firm can "recruit" at both college X and college Y, they may chose to only take 5 interviews from X and 50 from Y. It also depends on what division the firm is recruiting into. For example, consulting firms differentiate between management consulting and tech and their two departments have different recruiting.</p>