MBA employment statistics
Because of their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and achievements — as well as the toolkit they build through the innovative, real-world W. P. Carey curriculum — our MBA candidates bring a wealth of skills to any team within any
organization. Their foundational knowledge, flexibility, leadership development, and drive help our Full‑time MBA students deliver one of the highest placement rates among U.S. business schools.
The most recent complete yearly employment survey, conducted for the 2018–19 academic year, reported a mean base salary of $103,771 for W. P. Carey MBA graduates.
Full-time MBA graduating class of 2019
| Employment acceptance |
| Total by graduation |
73% |
| Total 3 months from graduation |
90% |
| Base salary and signing bonus |
| Mean salary |
$103,771 |
| Mean signing bonus |
$19,143 |
| Sample of employers |
- ABeam Consulting
- Accenture
- Amazon.com (6)
- American Airlines, Inc.
- American Express (2)
- Apple, Inc.
- Applied Materials (4)
- APS (2)
- ASML
- Assets Elevated
- Ayehu
- Bank of America (4)
- Bayer
- Benchmark Electronics
- Bird Rides, Inc.
- Blue Sky Media
- Boeing Company
- Cave Creek Capital Management
- Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
- Citigroup, Inc.
- Colgate-Palmolive Company
- Dell, Inc.
- Deloitte Consulting
- E. & J. Gallo Winery
- Ernst & Young (2)
- Facebook
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- Fannie Mae
- Google
- H-E-B
- Insight Enterprises
- Intel Corporation (11)
- Intuit, Inc.
- Intuitive Surgical
- John Deere
- Johnson & Johnson (3)
- Katerra
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Medtronic, Inc.
- NCAA
- NM Immigrant Law Center
- PetSmart, Inc.
- ProcureAbility
- Raytheon Company (2)
- Republic Services
- Shamrock Foods (5)
- Spear Education
- U.S. Dept. of Education
- Visa International (2)
- W. L. Gore & Assoc., Inc. (3)
- Walmart eCommerce (2)
- Western Digital (4)
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| Sources of employment |
| School-facilitated activities |
66% |
| Student-facilitated activities |
34% |
| Employment by region |
| Mid-Atlantic |
3% |
| Midwest |
2% |
| Northeast |
11% |
| South |
6% |
| Southwest |
47% |
| West |
31% |
| Employment by professional function |
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Full-time MBA graduating class of 2020
| Internship acceptance |
| Permanent work authorization |
61.6% |
| Non-Permanent work authorization |
38.4% |
| Sources of accepted internships |
| School-facilitated activities |
67.4% |
| Student-facilitated activities |
32.6% |
| Base monthly salary |
| Mean |
$5,542 |
| Range |
$1,400 – $10,800 |
| Sample of internship employers |
- Aledade, Inc
- Alphacore, Inc.
- Amazon.com (3)
- American Express (3)
- Amyris
- Ann Arbor Smiles Dental Group
- APS (2)
- Arizona State University (4)
- Autodesk, Inc.
- Bank of America (6)
- Banner Health (2)
- Bayer
- Becton Dickinson
- Boeing (3)
- Boundless Group
- Brookline College
- Cenergy Solutions
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Columbia Bank
- Dell, Inc. (2)
- DHL Global Forwarding
- EnPower, Inc.
- FedEx Corporation
- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
- General Dynamics Mission Systems
- GEP
- Inspiring Capital
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- Intel Corporation (5)
- Ivanti
- John Deere
- Johnson & Johnson (3)
- KPMG LLP
- Leslie’s Pool Supplies
- Lumentum
- Mattel, Inc.
- Micron (3)
- Nestle USA
- New York Giants
- Office of US Senator
- ON Semiconductor
- PolyOne Corporation (2)
- Raytheon Company
- Republic Services
- SC Johnson
- Shamrock Foods (3)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Stanley Black & Decker
- Stryker
- T-Mobile
- Vixxo Corporation
- W. L. Gore and Assoc., Inc. (2)
- Walmart Corporation (2)
- Yaskawa America, Inc.
- Zillow Group
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| Internship by professional function |
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