| | In this article we share
the Top 25 business
schools to attend if you
want to secure a career
with McKinsey, BCG or
Bain.
Social media means
this data is now readily
available and so we
start this article by
reproducing the rankings
according to an analysis
of LinkedIn profiles.
It's one of the
cardinal rules of
consulting - don't
accept opinions and
conjecture if hard data
is available that can
provide the indisputable
answer!
So when approached by
a prospective MBA
student who wanted to
establish which schools
would open the door for
them to pursue a career
at McKinsey, BCG or | |
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| | Bain, we counselled them
not to rely on hearsay
and opinions but to seek
the hard facts. Any
careers service worth
its salt should be able
to provide a breakdown
of the employers where
its recent graduates
have managed to secure
employment. Or why not
leverage the power of
social media and conduct
your own custom analysis
based on querying of the
LinkedIn network?
XiaoXiao Ma went away
and did just that - and
the results above are
the fruition of this
work. Similar analyses
were also conducted for
other strategy firms
like my former employer
Roland Berger Strategy
Consultants. But for the
purposes of this article
we wanted to just share
one definitive league
table for the schools | |
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| | you should attend if you
want to pursue a career
with a top-tier strategy
consultancy rather than
get bogged down in
firm-by-firm detail.
The data table
published in the table
shows how many
consultants each firm
currently employs who
have an MBA obtained
from each of the leading
business schools. In
other words, only
profiles for those
people who have secured
a job with McKinsey, BCG
or Bain after having
studied for their MBA
and who are still with
that firm. The important
caveats are that this
methodology excludes
data for people who
joined these firms
post-MBA and have since
left; and similarly
includes those people
who were with McKinsey, | |
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| | BCG or Bain prior to
their MBA, were
sponsored through an MBA
and now have returned to
their employer as part
of the sponsorship deal
(without having to
undergo the MBA
selection process). On
the latter point firms
will only sponsor
consultants to go to the
schools they hold in the
highest regard, so this
should have no bearing
on the rankings. Whilst
on the former point, we
see no reason why
graduates from a
particular school would
be more likely to quit
consulting than any
other school, so
wouldn't expect this to
have a material impact
on the rankings either.
We're very grateful
to XiaoXiao Ma for
allowing us to share
this work with you - and | |
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| | hope it has answered one
of the most often-asked
and enduring of
questions in the
consulting community!
Caveat: Whilst we
have given some steer to
the research methodology
used above,
Top-Consultant.com makes
no representations as to
the accuracy of the
resulting table - not
least because it relies
on data that is a
statistical sample of
all consulting employees
and so cannot be 100%
accurate. Please do
undertake your own
research before deciding
which business school to
attend - and crucially
check on a school's
recent success rate in
securing employment for
MBA graduates with your
target employers. | |
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