{"id":16682,"date":"2013-01-28T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=16682"},"modified":"2013-01-28T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:53:55","slug":"gmac-alumni-survey-shows-strong-job-market-for-2012-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmac-alumni-survey-shows-strong-job-market-for-2012-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAC Alumni Survey Shows Strong Job Market for 2012 Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year's b-school grads faced a receptive job market, as 92 percent of 2012 graduates surveyed by the Graduate Management Admission Council<\/strong> were employed three months after graduation. That\u2019s six percentage points higher than class of 2011 graduates surveyed at the same time the year before in GMAC\u2019s Alumni Perspectives Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, some 77 percent of the class of 2012 graduates surveyed said their starting salary met or exceeded their expectations, and 76 percent said they could not have gotten their job without their graduate management education.<\/p>\n

\"MBA<\/a><\/p>\n

A variety of factors affect compensation, such as pre-degree salary and experience, industry and job function, and median salaries of the class of 2012 showed significant differences by program type. For example, those graduating from full-time two-year MBA programs had a median salary of $85,000, with additional compensation of $10,000, whereas those graduating from full-time one-year MBA programs had a median salary of $59,000 with additional compensation of $5,500 (age, program location, and work location are confounding factors).<\/p>\n

The 834 members of the class of 2012 were among the 4,444 graduate business school alumni from the classes of 2000-2012 surveyed about their work life and career trajectories in the global longitudinal survey. For all alumni from the classes of 2000-2012:<\/p>\n