MIT Sloan MBA Careers Continue to Diversify: MBA News

The MIT Sloan MBA program has announced that its graduating class has continued a recent trend in entering a more diverse field of MBA careers.

 

"While many graduating MBA students are still heading to traditional sectors like finance, consulting and technology, one of the biggest trends among top business schools is an increase in the diversity of students’ career interests," explained Susan Kline, director of Master's programs at the career development office at MIT Sloan School of Management in a blog post.

 

"Perhaps it’s related to fallout from the financial crisis or even a generational trend, but more and more students are pursuing positions in a broader array of areas."

 

Kline notes that while roughly 60% of the MIT Sloan MBA classes in recent years have entered into traditional MBA graduate industries such as finance, consulting and technology, the remaining 40% are entering a wider, more diverse selection of MBA careers. "Strong areas of focus for that group include: entrepreneurship; sustainability; energy; social enterprise; health care; operations and supply chain management; and entertainment, media and sports," she says.

The big recruiters of MIT Sloan MBAs have also changed in recent times, according to Kline.

 

"Although we’ve always had active recruiting in the technology sector, five years ago our top hirers were in the consulting and banking sectors. Now, technology companies are among our biggest recruiters. Amazon was in this tier this year along with McKinsey, BCG and Bain. Also well represented were Microsoft, Apple and Google."

 

While official data on the MBA careers of the class of 2013 is yet to be released by the MIT Sloan MBA team, Kline points out that she fully expects the data to reflect the broadening career interests she has witnessed.