MBA Careers
Broad MBA students have varied professional backgrounds and differing aspirations. Some come to switch careers, others to enhance theirs. Whatever your goal, the MBA experience Broad offers you is unique, with a multi-dimensional and career-spanning payoff. Corporate employers place a high value on our MBAs for their:
- Combination of hard & soft skills
- Cross-functional "big picture" expertise
- "Roll up your sleeves" supportive attitude
- Distinctive work ethic
- Day-one readiness
- Team-focused style of leadership
For good reason, our MBA Career Services Center is consistently ranked in the nation's top five. We offer multiple opportunities for corporate employers to meet and recruit you, while preparing you to perform optimally when you do meet with recruiters.
Our Career Services staff offers career advising and consulting and is skilled at helping you create an effective job strategy that matches your particular career interests and aspirations. The size of our MBA program lets us give individual attention to help you master such things as:
We also offer an MBA career exploration conference, career workshops, on-campus recruiting, and corporate presentations.
Facts & stats
While some of our MBAs choose employment with Michigan-based companies, many join top-flight companies all over the U.S. and the world, in such industries as:
- IT
- Banking
- Transportation
- Health care
- Manufacturing
Many variables affect new MBA salaries—quality and length of previous employment, advanced expertise, U.S. expatriate experience, and prior work in the industry or function, to name a few.
Salary information: Class of 2008
| Functional area | Average annual salary | Average signing bonus | % Full-time offers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting | $95,833 | $8,200 | 8.54% |
| General management | $101,667 | $9,000 | 3.66% |
| Human resources management | $78,938 | $11,857 | 10.98% |
| Marketing | $89,593 | $17,664 | 15.85% |
| Finance | $89,951 | $14,708 | 24.39% |
| Supply chain management | $93,825 | $16,488 | 36.58% |
Planning
Our Career Services is focused on more than just getting you an internship or post-graduate job. We help you acquire the career-planning and job-search skills you need for a lifetime of professional success and career satisfaction. From the summer before you enter our program until well after graduation, we work with you to:
As a Broad MBA student, you will take on an internship between your first and second year in the program to gain familiarity with a particular industry or employer. As an intern, you will:
- Develop problem-solving & leadership skills
- Find out what a job entails & what skills are needed to perform it well
- Discover how to apply the frameworks you learn in class to real-world situations
The experience exposes you firsthand to day-to-day operations and issues and enables you to explore what segment of an industry is right for you. It also provides a powerful networking connection for a future job. In fact, many of our MBAs accept full-time jobs with the company with whom they did their internship.
This in-depth MBA career planning and internship experience brings ongoing return in that you not only get a great job, but you know just how to make your next career move.
International students
Broad has some of the best and brightest international students who have studied and embraced American corporate cultures. Our International MBAs are worldly and adaptive. When hired, they add significant value to their companies' efforts.
If you're an International MBA student, you will learn what you need to know about the current state of work visas and policies and regulations for getting a U.S. job in a workshop hosted by Broad and led by immigration attorneys. Many of our International MBAs land the post-graduate job of their dreams, with a majority of them remaining in the U.S. in various industries and geographic locations following graduation.
