Saturday, November 22, 2008

Queen's MBA Class of 2008 "preliminary" placement statistics

These are preliminary numbers. The official ones will be published on the Queen's Business Career Center website very shortly.

Percentage of students placed (6 months after graduation) 93%
  • In Canada 77%
  • Outside Canada 23%

Locations in Canada:

  • Vancouver, BC
  • Calgary, AB
  • Edmonton, AB
  • Toronto, ON
  • Ottawa, ON
  • Waterloo, ON

Locations outside Canada:

  • India
  • United Arab Emirates
  • UK
  • USA

Employment by sector, average salary:

  • Finance 35%, $78,000
  • Management Consulting 20%, $94,500
  • High Tech/Telecom 25%, $74,500
  • Manufacturing 4%, $80,000
  • Bio-Pharm 2%, N/A
  • Other 14%, $77,000

Salary Info:

  • Average $80,000
  • Median $81,000
  • Top $122,000

Placement by citizenship (some cases by region of origin and not citizenship):

  • Overall 93%
  • Canadian 88% (note: this is lower because of a trend for Canadian students to take a period of time to "decompress" after the program prior to looking for work)
  • Indian 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • African 100%
  • European 100%
  • South American 100%

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

6 months after graduation is a relatively fishy statistic!

Appleseed said...

Agreed, but it is the standard to live and die by. Wish they would come-up with something better. Any suggestions?

Anonymous said...

Which standard is this? Queen's is the only school that uses this strange metric. The rest of the b-school world uses 3 months.

Appleseed said...

Most of the schools I looked at used a 6 month placement stat. If you are really curious you should write the administration. They would be happy to answer your question in detail.

Anonymous said...

A couple of things

1)This is lower because of a trend for Canadian students to take a period of time to "decompress" after the program prior to looking for work - Only partly true. People take a month or so off. Not six months. I know the last batch well. Its not like they are decompressing at the moment. They are looking for jobs as eagerly as others. They are just not getting it. I am not saying its schools fault. The global economy is in a bad shape. But "Decompressing" is not the reason

2) 6 months after the MBA people usually take up any job they are offered. Doesn't matter if the salary is in mid 40's. They need to get the cash flows going.

3) Indians - 100% is a wrong number. I know someone who doesn't have a job yet.

4) Europeans - There were no europeans in the class of 2008. So I assume 100% comes from 0/0?

- oldtimer

Appleseed said...

Thanks for the update!