<p>Yeah, but all you’re saying is simply reinforcing the point that McKinsey probably does not really consider Michigan to be one of its top recruiting destinations. Whether it’s because the Ross students aren’t good enough to get into McKinsey, or whether it’s because they don’t WANT to get into McKinsey, it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, for whatever reason, McKinsey only hired 8 MBA’s from Ross. </p>
<p>Consider your argument about the focus on operations. The fact is, if there is one B-school that is more focused on operations than anything else, it has to be MIT Sloan. I think it is rather indisputable that Sloan is the best MBA program to go to for pure operations. Both USNews and Businessweek (when BW used to publish its discipline-specific rankings) agree on this. Heck, the entire dual-degree LFM program, of which comprises about 1/8 of the entire Sloan class exists to steer people towards operations jobs, and many regular Sloanies also want operations jobs. Nevertheless despite Sloan’s powerhouse operations specialization, the fact is, McKinsey hired 25 Sloan grads. Granted, many of them went to McKinsey’s Operations Practice but then that just begs the question of why more Ross students who are interested in Ops don’t end up in that Practice too. </p>
<p>You also say that lots of students who are interested in and who have prior practical experience in banking and consulting won’t go to Michigan. But that just begs the question of why not? In particular, why would they be so much more interested in going to, say, Sloan or Columbia or Stanford instead? </p>
<p>One might now ask the question of who said that consulting (or banking) was necessarily the most desirable jobs for MBA’s? The answer is, the MBA’s said so. That’s what Fortune Magazine discovered, with consulting and banking taking 6 of the top 10 slots (with McKinsey being #1). </p>
<p><a href=“http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mba100/[/url]”>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mba100/</a></p>
<p>Hence, it’s not that I am personally saying that McKinsey is the most desirable employer. Rather, it’s the MBA students themselves who are saying it in the aggregate.</p>
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<p>I’m afraid this is not true. According to the data, about 22% of Ross students went to consulting. About 20% of Columbia students went to consulting. So, actually, a (slightly) greater percentage of Ross students are more interested in consulting than Columbia students are. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bus.umich.edu/pdf/EmploymentProfile2005.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bus.umich.edu/pdf/EmploymentProfile2005.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/cu/business/career/employmentreport/2005/er2005.pdf[/url]”>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/business/career/employmentreport/2005/er2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>I agree that Columbia is larger than Ross (600 to 420). Yet Columbia got 31 of its grads into McKinsey, whereas Ross got 8. Scale down the number of students at Columbia to make it proportional, and Columbia still clearly got significantly more into McKinsey. </p>
<p>The same can be said for MIT. 26% of Sloan grads did go to consulting, which is higher than Ross’s 22%. Yet, MIT did get 24 people into McKinsey. Again, compared to Ross’s 8, scaled down for the different percentages who went to consulting, and MIT still got more in. </p>
<p><a href=“http://mitsloan.mit.edu/global/employment/detailed05.php#profile[/url]”>http://mitsloan.mit.edu/global/employment/detailed05.php#profile</a></p>