If you have a family member graduating from an MBA program this spring, they might be considering going to work for a bank - or they might not. More MBA graduates are choosing jobs in technology and consulting even as banks have been raising starting salaries.
The share of full-time MBA graduates from the top 10 business schools accepting jobs at financial-services firms dropped between 2012 and 2017 from 36 percent to 26 percent. The share accepting jobs in technology rose from 13 percent to 20 percent in the same period. Consulting edged out financial services as the top draw in 2017, as the choice of 29 percent of grads, up from 27 percent in 2012.
Banks are trying to do more to attract the top MBAs. For graduates of MIT Sloan School of Management, median starting salaries paid by financial-services firms jumped 25 percent between 2012 and 2017 to $125,000. Tech- and consulting-firm median salaries rose just 9 percent—to $125,000 and $147,000, respectively—over the same period.
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