CAREER OUTCOMES
Career outcomes are among the most important factors in choosing a business program. These two questions get right to the heart of the matter. The table shows how many students from each school answered “yes.”
- Was your first job after graduating in your desired industry?
- Was your first job after graduating at your desired company?
School |
Desired industry |
Desired company |
Average |
| Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 98.15% | 96.23% | 97.19% |
| Wake Forest University | 93.75% | 90.63% | 92.19% |
| University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 94.44% | 88.89% | 91.67% |
| Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 92.68% | 90.24% | 91.46% |
| Cornell University (Dyson SC John) | 95.24% | 85.71% | 90.48% |
| University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 96.77% | 83.87% | 90.32% |
| Villanova University | 95% | 85% | 90.00% |
| Indiana University (Kelley) | 95.57% | 82.69% | 89.13% |
| University of Virginia (McIntire) | 97.83% | 80.43% | 89.13% |
| University of Southern California (Marshall) | 100% | 78% | 89.00% |
| Georgetown University (McDonough) | 90.91% | 86.36% | 88.64% |
| University of Miami (Herbert) | 91.84% | 83.67% | 87.76% |
| Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 95.38% | 80% | 87.69% |
| Fordham University (Gabelli) | 95.65% | 79.35% | 87.50% |
| Miami University (Farmer) | 92.98% | 81.58% | 87.28% |
| Marian University (Byrum) | 78.95% | 94.74% | 86.85% |
| Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 96.15% | 76.92% | 86.54% |
| University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 89.26% | 82.64% | 85.95% |
| University of Akron | 100% | 71.43% | 85.72% |
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | 85.71% | 85.71% | 85.71% |
| Bucknell University | 88.24% | 82.35% | 85.30% |
| University of Illinois (Gies) | 92.13% | 78.41% | 85.27% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 91.49% | 78.72% | 85.11% |
| Emory University (Goizueta) | 93.85% | 75% | 84.43% |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 90.91% | 77.27% | 84.09% |
| Providence College | 89.29% | 78.57% | 83.93% |
| Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 91.18% | 76.47% | 83.83% |
| Elon University (Love) | 89.29% | 78.18% | 83.74% |
| Texas A&M University (Mays) | 89.15% | 78.29% | 83.72% |
| St. John’s University (Tobin) | 89.58% | 75% | 82.29% |
| University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 85.42% | 78.72% | 82.07% |
| University of Michigan (Ross) | 87.69% | 75.38% | 81.54% |
| Binghamton University | 88.57% | 74.29% | 81.43% |
| University of Evansville (Schroeder) | 87.50% | 75% | 81.25% |
| University of Arizona (Eller) | 88.42% | 73.68% | 81.05% |
| College of New Jersey | 88.46% | 73.08% | 80.77% |
| University of Dayton | 82.86% | 78.57% | 80.72% |
| University of Georgia (Terry) | 88.50% | 72.07% | 80.29% |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 86.05% | 74.42% | 80.24% |
| American University (Kogod) | 91.43% | 68.57% | 80.00% |
| University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 87.23% | 72.34% | 79.79% |
| New York University (Stern) | 89.39% | 69.70% | 79.55% |
| Tulane University (Freeman) | 85.07% | 73.13% | 79.10% |
| Michigan State University (Broad) | 87.12% | 70.45% | 78.79% |
| Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 86.26% | 71.11% | 78.69% |
| Drexel University (LeBow) | 90.54% | 66.22% | 78.38% |
| Purdue University (Daniels) | 83.10% | 73.61% | 78.36% |
| University of Richmond (Robins) | 84.62% | 71.79% | 78.21% |
| University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 85.56% | 70.79% | 78.18% |
| Lehigh University | 88.46% | 67.31% | 77.89% |
| University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 84.93% | 69.44% | 77.19% |
| University of Houston (Bauer) | 84.36% | 69.83% | 77.10% |
| University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 82.67% | 70.67% | 76.67% |
| Syracuse University (Whitman) | 82.14% | 67.86% | 75.00% |
| William & Mary (Mason) | 80.77% | 69.23% | 75.00% |
| University of Delaware (Lerner) | 83.87% | 65.59% | 74.73% |
| Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 80.49% | 68.29% | 74.39% |
| Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 91.43% | 57.14% | 74.29% |
| Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 80% | 68.47% | 74.24% |
| University of San Diego (Knauss) | 83.72% | 64.29% | 74.01% |
| University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 80% | 66.67% | 73.34% |
| University of Denver (Daniels) | 80.36% | 66.07% | 73.22% |
| University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 79.49% | 66.67% | 73.08% |
| Loyola Marymount University | 83.33% | 60% | 71.67% |
| Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 79.41% | 63.64% | 71.53% |
| Ithaca College | 85.71% | 57.14% | 71.43% |
| Christopher Newport University (Luter) | 78.95% | 63.16% | 71.06% |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 79.22% | 61.04% | 70.13% |
| Hofstra University (Zarb) | 78.95% | 60.53% | 69.74% |
| University of Washington (Foster) | 79.71% | 59.42% | 69.57% |
| University of Oklahoma (Price) | 73.85% | 64.62% | 69.24% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 76.92% | 61.54% | 69.23% |
| Ohio University | 72.97% | 62.16% | 67.57% |
| Hult International Business School | 82.22% | 51.11% | 66.67% |
| Oregon State University | 79.41% | 52.94% | 66.18% |
| University of Utah (Eccles) | 79.41% | 52.94% | 66.18% |
| Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 82.86% | 48.57% | 65.72% |
| Florida Southern College | 68.42% | 57.89% | 63.16% |
| Towson University | 70.24% | 55.95% | 63.10% |
| Rutgers Business School – Newark | 71.30% | 54.78% | 63.04% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 62.50% | 62.50% | 62.50% |
| Sacred Heart University | 70.59% | 52.94% | 61.77% |
| Seattle University (Albers) | 65.52% | 51.72% | 58.62% |
| Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 70.83% | 45.83% | 58.33% |
| San Diego State University | 67.71% | 47.92% | 57.82% |
| Northern Illinois University | 61.11% | 50% | 55.56% |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn | 58.82% | 50% | 54.41% |
| Lipscomb University | 70.59% | 35.29% | 52.94% |
| University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 55% | 50% | 52.50% |
| Florida International University | 55.26% | 48% | 51.63% |
| University of Texas at Arlington | 33.33% | 33.33% | 33.33% |
WOULD YOU RECOMMEND YOUR BUSINESS PROGRAM? (Page 1)
WAS THE DEGREE WORTH THE TIME AND COST? (Page 2)
FACULTY QUALITY & ACCESSIBILITY (Page 3)
ADVISING QUALITY (Page 4)
BUILDING A PROFESSIONAL NETWORK (Page 5)
CLIMBING THE LADDER (Page 6)
CAREER OUTCOMES (Page 7)
SKILL DEVELOPMENT (Page 8)
SIGNATURE EXPERIENCE (Page 9)
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