MBA Programs for Consulting
A job in management consulting is one of the most popular – if not the most popular – career step for recent MBA grads. Sometimes people already working in consulting get an MBA as a way to advance their careers in that industry; others use the MBA as a gateway into the sector. [maybe a sentence here about the difference between working in a management consulting firm and a functional consulting position.
Top Business Schools for a career in Consulting
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Columbia
McKinsey hired 68 CBS MBAs in 2011; and Bain and Boston Consulting each hired 15. Over 26 percent of CBS’s 2011 cohort of 745 students went into consulting functions after the MBA. View school profile
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London Business School
In 2011, about 36 percent of MBA grads got jobs in the consulting sector – with a third of those at the large consultancies like Boston Consulting (16 recruited), McKinsey (16), Bain (13) and Booz (6). View school profile
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Melbourne
MBS says that 58 percent of its 2010 MBA cohort went into a consulting function, with 44 percent going into jobs in the consulting industry, mainly in Australia. View school profile
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Northwestern - Kellogg
Around 40 percent of Kellogg’s 2011 MBA cohort went into consulting jobs at places like McKinsey (53 students hired), Boston Consulting (38), Bain (37), and Deloitte (23). View school profile
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INSEAD - Fontainebleau
The percentage of INSEAD MBAs going into the consulting sector ranged between 39 and 44 percent during 2007-2011. INSEAD remains a major feeder school for large consultant firms in Europe, with 107 of the 2011 cohort going to McKinsey (50 who returned from pre-MBA jobs there), 61 to Boston Consulting, 52 to Bain, 29 to Booz, and 12 to Roland Berger. View school profile
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ISB
Around 35 percent of 2012 ISB PGP grads got consulting function jobs, down from 36 percent in 2011. About 30 percent got jobs in the consulting industry. View school profile
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Chicago - Booth
Together, the five largest US consulting firms snapped up 91 students of the 2011 Booth MBA cohort. McKinsey alone hired 39 (up from 24 in 2011); Boston Consulting took on 19, Bain 17, Booz 12, and Deloitte 4. View school profile
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Harvard
Around 29 percent of 2012 Harvard MBA grads went into the consulting industry - the highest percentage since 2003. Harvard is widely considered a key "feeder" school for consulting careers at McKinsey & Company. View school profile
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Duke - Fuqua
Forty percent of Duke’s 2011-12 Full-Time MBA cohort got jobs with a consulting professional function, with 30 grads going to Deloitte, 18 to McKinsey, 12 to Boston Consulting, 89 to Bain, and 8 to Accenture. View school profile
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MIT - Sloan
Almost 34 percent of Sloan’s 2011 cohort went into the consulting industry, with about half getting hired by either McKinsey (27 grads), Boston Consulting (16), Bain (12), or Deloiite (6). Nearly 39 percent of all MBAs got jobs with a consulting or strategic planning function. View school profile
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AGSM
Like at rival Melbourne Business School, a larger fraction of 2011 AGSM MBA grads found jobs in the consulting industry (46 percent) or with a consulting job function (52%) than is typical at other schools. View school profile
