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01 Dec 1998

Goodbye and Hello to MBAs

Topics: Career-The First Five Years
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In June, members of the Class of 1998 packed up their belongings and set forth from Soldiers Field, full of promise and ambition, to launch their careers. This fall, a new group of enthusiastic students from 62 different countries enrolled as members of the Class of 2000. The MBA Program recently released these statistical profiles of the two classes.

Class of 1998 Placement

Employment by Industry*

Consulting: 30%
Investment Banking (including Sales & Trading): 15%
High Tech & Telecommunications: 13%
Venture Capital: 10%
Industrial/Transportation Equipment: 3%
Media: 3%
Health Care: 3%
Consumer Products: 2%
Nonprofit: 2%
Retail/Wholesale: 2%
Other Financial Services: 10%
Other Manufacturing: 5%
Other Services: 4%
Median base starting salary: $85,000

Profile: Class of 2000

Total number of applications: 8,061
Class size: 895
Women: 30%
Minorities: 19%
International: 26%
Married: 26%
Parents: 5%
Median age: 26
Total countries represented: 62

Undergraduate Majors

Humanities and Social Sciences: 42%
Business Administration: 21%
Engineering 27%
Pure Sciences: 7%
Other: 3%

*All statistics are from September 1998. Total does not equal 100 percent because numbers have been rounded off.

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