The IT and infrastructure badly needs improving and hopefully the new campus will help. We also need to add more faculty. -- Consulting
The Yale SOM program is still in a period of transition because of the curriculum change. It still has a long way to go, but I firmly believe it�s on the right track. -- Marketing The opportunities to travel were immense. I combined a curriculum-required international trip (in Japan - my first choice), with a teaching assistant position on a trip to Russia, a leadership role on a trip to D.C., and a student role in a trip around the world (London, Dubai, and Hong Kong). -- Investment Banking
I'm from mainland China, and I firmly believe that Chinese students can leverage Yale's brand name to help them open any door they want to open during the next 30-40 years in their career. -- Investment Banking
The Career Development Office needs serious work. They haven't seemed to get it right, yet. -- Finance
Dean Podolny is the most compelling figure I've encountered in academia, and I was continually impressed by his vision for the school, his understanding of what makes Yale SOM unique (i.e., the diversity of professional backgrounds and interests, the social sector roots of the school, the tight-knit community), and his ability to engage all relevant stakeholders. -- Consulting
The proximity to New York is more valuable than what I thought it would be. -- Consulting
The career services office, the facilities, and specialized career areas (entrepreneurship, operations, IT) could be improved. -- Finance
The SOM is quite different from most elite business schools, in the sense that the education emphasizes not only the hard skills necessary to be successful in business, but also the moral and ethical dimensions of being a practitioner in business. -- Finance
The combination of our small class size and high-quality faculty base really helps make the SOM experience: You're constantly interacting with amazing professors who are passionate about business school education and your success as a leader. They open up their networks, you can call them day or night; the access is incredible. -- Venture Capital/Private Equity
Among the students and faculty, there's a palpable sense of excitement about our future and Dean Podolny, who's leading us there. -- Consulting
The school is very internationally minded. In addition to our required first-year "International Experience," where I traveled to Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore, I also had the opportunity to travel to London, Dubai, and Hong Kong this year as part of a class that focused on global financial centers. -- Venture Capital/Private Equity
The student body is small, which affects Yale�s overall industry influence and alumni size. -- Investment Banking
My colleagues and friends tend to be people who appreciate the fact that the most intractable problems facing business leaders today can�t be solved using a traditional, "siloed" approach. They are complex, multidimensional, and increasingly international. The faculty and students "get it" here, and the SOM is a great place for long-term personal and professional development. -- Finance
Yale's core first-year program exceeded all my expectations. It's on par with the much more prestigious law school. -- Venture Capital/Private Equity
Our dean and the faculty were very accessible, given the small program size. Students often met with the dean over breakfast to discuss what they had on their minds. We had town hall meetings as well, which updated students, faculty and administration on the most recent SOM changes. -- Investment Banking
I liked that New Haven is less than two hours from New York and Boston. The school location made it very easy to visit investment banks. -- Investment Banking
Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:
Bank of America - Merrill Lynch 5
J.P. Morgan 4
PricewaterhouseCoopers 4
Barclays 3
Booz Allen Hamilton 3
Goldman Sachs 3
IBM 3
Sears Holding Company 3
Standard & Poor's 3
Boston Consulting Group 2
Deloitte Consulting 2
Microsoft 2
Morgan Stanley 2
PepsiCo 2
American Express 2
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:
76 %
Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:
Mean base salary: $ 98,420
Median base salary: $ 96,000
Mean signing bonus: $ 24,690
Median signing bonus: $ 20,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation: $ 23,451
Median other guaranteed compensation: $ 10,000
Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:
Consulting: 19 %
Finance/Accounting: 46 %
General Management: 20 %
Marketing/Sales: 13 %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 1 %
Operations/Logistics: 1 %
CAREER SERVICES
Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 87 %
Graduates not seeking employment: 12 %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 1 %
Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination: Wall Street
Month: November
Destination: London
Month: November
Destination: West Coast
Month: January
Primary source of job offer:
School-facilitated activities: 67 %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 31 %
No information provided by graduate: 4 %
Job Offers for 2009 graduates:
Received first job offer by graduation: 81 %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 11 %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 3 %
Did not report having received a job offer: 5 %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 69 %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 15 %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 5 %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 10 %
