According to the latest report, Ross placed more undergraduate students in full time jobs at major consulting firms and IBanks than anytime in recent memory:
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
BCG: 11
McKinsey: 7
Bain: 4
TOTAL: 22 (Ross usually places 10-15, so this is a higher number than usual)
INVESTMENT BANKING
JP Morgan: 15
Citi: 14
Goldman Sachs: 10
Morgan Stanley: 8
Deutsche Bank: 7
BOAML: 6
Barclays Capital: 5
TOTAL: 65 (not including IBanks that recruited fewer than 5)
OTHER MAJOR EMPLOYERS:
Ernst & Young: 14
PwC: 11
Deloitte: 10
Accenture: 9
Microsoft: 7
Google: 3
Strategy& (ex Booz): 3
Companies that recruit significantly at Ross, but fewer than 8 overall (including interns and MBAs):
Blackstone
BNP Paribas
Bristol Myers Squibb
British Petroleum
Chevron
Cisco Systems
Credit Suisse
Exxon Mobil
Lazard Freres
L.E.K. Consulting
Medtronic
Pfizer
Shell
UBS
Very nice results. I’ve always been curious why the undergraduate program seems to do better than the graduate program given the fungibility of facilities and staff and other resources. The graduate school pulls in very smart, qualified and credentialed kids so it is a bit curious that the graduate recruiting/placement profile, while successful/impressive, is not as successful.
The big management consulting firms have always recruited heavily at Michigan. On average, Ross places the 5th most MBA graduates in those three firms among all MBA programs. Among BBA programs, Ross is second, behind only Wharton. I don’t think that BBAs are necessarily more successful, I just think that the competition for BBAs is much lower since so many top business programs (Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Yale etc…) do not offer undergraduate degrees in business.
The only industry that does not seem to recruit MBAs well at Ross is Finance. They recruit BBAs very heavily, but for some strange reason, MBAs are not recruited nearly as much. Maybe it has to do with the experience of Ross’ MBA class. Perhaps not many Ross MBAs have a background in finance, which makes sense. I assume that most MBAs at Ross come from a manufacturing/operations, management and marketing background.