Top 30 US Schools: Placements by Geographical Locations

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Hello GMATClub,

Here is a table that shows placements of top US schools by geographical locations. The data shown in the table is taken from latest US News MBA Rankings.

As we can see for most schools, placements are tilted towards regions in which these schools are situated. e.g. Stanford is situated in west region and nearly 65% of Stanford graduates found employment in the same region; however, there are schools such as Booth or Fuqua that have relatively balanced placements.

For those who are looking to find employment outside of United States, Yale, HBS, or Chicago Booth could be good options. We can also see that every M7 school, except Columbia, has sent atleast 10% of its graduates outside of the US.

If you want to compare school's location and its placements in various regions, here you can find locations of all schools - Global Map of Business Schools.

This data can be helpful in shortlisting schools to those who have stronger preference for a particular region for work post MBA.

Feel free to post your comments /observations about the data. Let us know if we can add anything in to it.

Placements by Geographical Location
US News Rank	School	Total Grads	Seeking Employment	Northeast	Middle Atlantic	South	Midwest	Southwest	West	International
1	HBS	926	694	260	28	19	35	32	146	85
1	Wharton	850	639	253	69	17	19	17	119	70
3	Chicago Booth	583	516	113	10	10	154	26	115	63
4	MIT Sloan	393	319	120	8	11	10	12	97	29
4	Kellogg	464	401	68	10	10	108	27	103	43
4	Stanford	413	290	39	1	2	4	13	148	22
7	Berkeley Haas	245	204	6	2	1	2	11	146	15
8	Tuck	275	250	109	11	9	17	10	29	23
9	Columbia	744	519	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
9	Yale SOM	302	267	107	17	3	7	12	51	36
11	Michigan Ross	450	368	70	11	12	120	17	82	26
12	Duke Fuqua	418	367	71	29	67	32	29	72	33
12	NYU Stern	396	352	249	9	3	5	5	22	21
14	UVA Darden	326	296	82	52	31	18	24	37	23
15	UCLA Anderson	346	302	19	3	2	4	5	206	26
16	Cornell Johnson	292	263	126	9	9	19	12	42	20
17	McCombs	274	249	14	7	7	8	134	38	4
18	UNC Kenan Flagler	279	249	33	21	90	21	17	36	5
19	CMU Tepper	213	196	52	21	8	25	4	47	9
20	Emory Goizueta	182	131	24	3	54	7	7	16	3
21	McDonough	256	207	63	61	8	12	11	18	14
21	Kelley Indiana	184	168	21	5	19	72	10	24	7
21	Olin St. Louis	140	107	12	7	6	57	11	8	2
24	USC Marshall	213	165	11	N/A	1	N/A	5	129	5
25	Arizona State (Carey)	64	61	5	N/A	5	2	29	17	N/A
25	Vanderbilt Owen	169	142	19	5	58	16	12	17	1
27	Fisher	117	90	7	2	4	50	7	11	3
27	UW Foster	106	102	1	0	1	2	1	82	0
29	Scheller (Georgia Tech)	61	55	3	2	42	1	N/A	4	N/A
29	Rice Jones	112	101	2	2	3	1	66	5	N/A

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bb · Answer

An interesting relationship I have noticed on this post (probably should have noticed it before) is that Top 30 programs represent 10,000 grads each year. Top 10 programs are over 50% of that number, Top 20 are 85% and the remaining 10 schools ranked between 21 and 30 represent only 15% of all MBA Grads.

So, you can kind of assume and gather what schools dominate industries and companies.

So, you can kind of assume and gather what schools dominate industries and companies.

keats · Answer

Narenn  Amazing work! I just wanted to know as to what year are these statistics picked from?

Narenn · Answer

These stats are of Class of 2016.

stonecold · Answer

Any similar analysis w.r.t schools in the range 30-50.?
There are a few schools which have a lot of Internationals (Simon comes to mind)
Would be interesting to see where there students went.

Narenn · Answer

Ok. I will post another table for schools in 30-50 range in couple of days.

Top 30 US Schools: Placements by Geographical Locations

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