![]() And then to really come out on the back end and have folks be so successful – it was a real Team Fuqua experience, and I think it has helped give us a lot of insights moving forward as it relates to the new world that is largely more hybrid than what it used to be."ĬONSULTING GROWS & NORTHEAST OUSTS WEST COAST AS TOP REGIONĬonsulting was once again the top industry for Fuqua MBAs, at 36% of the class - another school record - up from 32% in 2021. I think for us, it's been a Team Fuqua sort of moment in that they went through that experience of coming in together at such a difficult time, and navigating all of the changing circumstances and environments - masks and virtual and all that kind of thing. "There are a lot of the themes that I think are similar across the board. "I've seen the articles from the other top schools, and certainly talked to my counterparts at other schools regularly," Dirks says. "$20,000 in one year is remarkable, given all the uncertainties and everything, so we were certainly excited to see that," Dirks tells Poets&Quants.ĭuke's MBAs were rewarded for their trials with an abundance of employment opportunities: 98% of the Class of 2022 had received at least one job offer by three months post-graduation, and they achieved a new school record when 97% accepted. Including a median $30,000 signing bonus that 91% of Duke MBAs reported receiving this year, total median compensation for Fuqua MBAs was $187,355. This mirrors the big jumps in median salary reported at such peer schools as Michigan Ross School of Business and Virginia Darden School of Business. How remarkable? Duke Class of 2022 MBAs are reporting a 14% jump in median starting salary, to $160,055 from $140,000 in 2021. ![]() “I think the level of achievement that they made both in the classroom and on their way out, from an employment perspective, is really remarkable.” “They did - they absolutely went through the ringer,” says Sheryle Dirks, associate dean for career management at Duke University Fuqua School of Business, the latest school to release its 2022 MBA employment report. One of the main graduate business education stories of 2022 is how much, and how well, the MBAs graduating this year overcame these challenges to emerge in the job market as some of the most highly paid in history. The class earned these descriptors, of course, by starting its MBA journey in the teeth of a global pandemic, attending classes remotely, unable to network, limited in their recruiting activities - limited, for a while, even in their personal freedom. In discussion after discussion this fall about the recently graduated MBA Class of 2022, a few words keep coming up. Duke Fuqua MBAs set new records in 2022 for job acceptances and median starting salary
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