Weak Recruiting for Consulting?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>I've just been checking out the recruiting websites of some top consulting companies and it seems like NONE of them recruit at JHU. I know that many economics majors from top privates and state schools seek consulting jobs. </p>

<p>Are consulting companies not interested in JHU students?</p>

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<p>They definitely do - but keep in mind Hopkins is a very small school - 1,200 graduates every year (1/2 the size of penn and 1/3 the size of Cornell).</p>

<p>2009 Graduating Class Results says that Business, Banking and Consulting is the 2nd largest industry that Hopkins students go into after graduation - after science and research. <a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/careers/students/postgradsurvey/PGShighlightsClassof09%20(3).pdf[/url]”>http://www.jhu.edu/careers/students/postgradsurvey/PGShighlightsClassof09%20(3).pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Not sure what the “top” consulting companies are (I really don’t know anything about the consulting world), but I just searched my email to see what I could find. In the last year (ie after I graduated and was off of most of the campus mailing lists, I see emails about McKinsey, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and Accenture visiting campus for info sessions and career fairs. And that’s only the companies that I saw the names of and knew they were consulting firms - there may be other “top” consulting companies that I’ve just never heard of but that also visited campus</p>

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<p>I don’t know if the big consulting firms recruit at Hopkins. I know that the big investment banks do NOT.</p>

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<p>But that doesn’t mean you can’t get a job in the industry - my two friends who have kids at Hopkins… one graduated '08 works for Goldman and the other is doing a summer internship at Blackstone this year - he’ll be a senior in the fall. If you have strong quant skills you’ll be looked at.</p>

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<p>I’m a 2010 (Dec 2009) Hopkins grad. Many banks and consulting firms do not actively recruit, but do have on-campus presentations and will interview JHU students with a strong resume. Among people I know, some interviews and offers were from McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture, Dean&Co. One of my friends is going to one of the Big 3 consulting firms. </p>

<p>Math/statistics exposure definitely helps, but is by no means requisite.</p>

<p>I am headed to a BB bank, and I know of a few others that are as well.</p>