Who hires MIT grads? 3 years of stats

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Which Employers Hired the Most MIT Graduates?</p>

<pre><code> 2004/ 2005/ 2006
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<p>Employer/ No. of Hires/ Employer/ No. of Hires/ Employer/ No. of Hires

  1. McKinsey 24 McKinsey 30 MIT 20
  2. Microsoft 18 MIT 20 Goldman Sachs 20
  3. MIT 14 Google 19 McKinsey 19
  4. Oracle 14 Microsoft 15 Boston Consulting Group 16
  5. Goldman Sachs 13 Raytheon 14 Microsoft 14
  6. IBM 13 Bain & Company 12 Morgan Stanley 13
  7. Boston Consulting Group 11 Goldman Sachs 12 Lehman Brothers 13
  8. Northrop Gruman 11 Morgan Stanley 11 Bain & Company 13
  9. Bain & Company 10 General Electric 11 JP Morgan 12
  10. United States Air Force 10 Susquehanna 8 Google 12
  11. Lehman Brothers 9 Lehman Brothers 8 IBM 11
  12. Intel 8 IBM 7 Intel 8
  13. Boeing 7 UBS 7 Oracle 8
  14. Draper Labs 7 Oracle 6 Boeing 8
  15. JP Morgan 7 Citigroup 6 Credit Suisse 8
  16. Raytheon 7 Boeing 6 Booz Allen 7
  17. Deutsche Bank 6 Deloitte 6 Johnson & Johnson 6
  18. Harvard University 6 Stanford University 6 Deutsche Bank 6</p>

<p>Source: MIT Careers Office</p>

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<p>I reformatted by total number of hires over the three-year period.

  1. McKinsey (73)
  2. MIT (54)
  3. Microsoft (47)
  4. Goldman Sachs (45)
  5. Bain (35)
  6. Google (31)
  7. IBM (31)
  8. Lehman Brothers (30)
  9. Oracle (28)
  10. Boston Consulting Group (27)
  11. Morgan Stanley (24)
  12. Raytheon (21)
  13. Boeing (21)
  14. JP Morgan (19)
  15. Intel (16)
  16. Deutsche Bank (12)
  17. Northrup Gruman (11)
  18. General Electric (11)
  19. USAF (10)
  20. Susquehanna (8)
  21. Credit Suisse (8)
  22. UBS (7)
  23. Draper Labs (7)
  24. Booz Allen (7)
  25. Citigroup (6)
  26. Deloitte (6)
  27. Johnson & Johnson (6)
  28. Harvard (6)
  29. Stanford (6)</p>

<p>The problem with the Careers Office data is that it’s for both grads and undergrads (hence the numbers for MIT, Harvard, and Stanford – most likely PhDs going off to postdocs). Still, it shows that there are a heck of a lot of MIT graduates doing stuff other than engineering…</p>

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<p>The article in the Tech on the 27th revealed that a whopping 1/3 of the class of '06/07 is going off to finance/consulting jobs. (Granted, the response rate for the survey was only 75ish percent, that’s still a large fraction of the students here).</p>

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<p>I suspect that many of the finance jobs are for Sloan MBA’s. Is there any way ti get similar data for undergraduates alone?</p>

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<p>No, that’s what I’m saying – the data available is only for grad + undergrad.</p>

<p>Anecdotally, there are many undergrads who get finance and consulting jobs. Of the (four) cheerleaders who graduated in my year, one girl went to BCG, and one went to McKinsey.</p>

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<p>Well, they can’t all be Sloanies. There were only 112 Sloan undergrads and 980 some odd graduates coming out of Sloan. There are some odd 6,000 grad students here, right? That means that the Sloanies can only account for ~1/6, not 1/3.</p>

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<p>All I know is I was at a local MIT presentation. There were a bunch of MIT alumni interviewers present. I think only one was in the sciences the others were all patent lawyers or investment bankers. Sort of disturbing!</p>

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<p>Ack. My math is screwed up… regardless, here’s the link to the article for those interested: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N49/49jobs.html[/url]”>http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N49/49jobs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Well, of course MIT produces a lot of professional scientists too – there’s some list floating around CC of the largest producers of PhDs per capita, and MIT is #3. But there are not so many professional scientists in the world, and lots and lots of businesspersons. :)</p>