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STUDENT LIFE
Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Biotech/Health care

Business Ethics

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

E-business

Entrepreneurship

Environmental

Finance

High Tech

Human Resources

Investment Banking

Marketing

Media & Entertainment

New Media

Nonprofit

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Black MBA Association

Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual

Hispanic Student Organization

International Club

Partners/Family

Volunteer

Wine

Women in MBA

Other

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
Disaster recovery site, wireless coverage, Thin Client laptops, Behavioral Lab created, interactive ethics module, disk & data duplication, remote access to all lab software, doubled email quotas for students, on-demand CRM, SharePoint, web accessible file storage, public calendar, emergency contact system, bidding-style course registration system, online real-time study room reservations for graduate students, online testing for graduate prerequisites, enhanced classroom AV/technology

Amount spent:
$  21,000,000

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Living MBA alumni:
24,500

Active MBA alumni clubs:
67

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:
22

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:
6  %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:
$  1,688

Median gift from MBA alumni:
$  425

  Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year?
No

  Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?
Yes

  Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes

University alumni networking site:
http://www.usc.edu/alumni

  Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes

Business school alumni networking site:
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/alumni

  Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?
Yes

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CAREER SERVICES
Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 81  %
Graduates not seeking employment: 15  %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 4  %

Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

Destination: NYC, No. NJ & So.CT
Month: December
Amount Paid By School: partial
Destination: Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose)
Month: January
Amount Paid By School: partial
Destination: Hong Kong
Month: January
Amount Paid By School: partial
Destination: Shanghai
Month: January
Amount Paid By School: partial
Destination: Pacific Northwest
Month: January
Amount Paid By School: partial

Primary source of job offer:

School-facilitated activities: 74  %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 20  %
No information provided by graduate: 6  %

Companies that recruited second-year MBAs on campus in 2008-09:
312

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Companies that posted full-time job offers for MBAs
on the school's job boards in 2008-09:
1250

Job Offers for 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 69  %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 12  %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 1  %
Did not report having received a job offer: 18  %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 67  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 13  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 2  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 18  %

Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

Cisco   5
Toyota   5
Deloitte   4
Morgan Stanley   4
Mattel   4
Taco Bell   4
KPMG   3
Warner Brothers   3
Johnson & Johnson   3
NBC   3
Del Monte   3
Microsoft   2
Nestle   2
Houlihan Lokey   2
General Electric   2

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:
68  %

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Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Mean base salary: $  93,886
Median base salary: $  95,000
Mean signing bonus: $  8,971
Median signing bonus: $  10,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation: $  12,510
Median other guaranteed compensation: $  15,000

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 19  %
Finance/Accounting: 23  %
General Management: 3  %
Human Resources: 3  %
Marketing/Sales: 37  %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 1  %
Operations/Logistics: 4  %
Other: 10  %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Government: 2  %
Consulting: 28  %
Consumer Products: 34  %
Financial Services: 22  %
Manufacturing: 1  %
Media/Entertainment: 10  %
Non-Profit: 1  %
Petroleum/Energy: 1  %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 1  %
Real Estate: 0  %
Technology: 0  %
Other: 0  %

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Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Africa: 0  %
Asia: 4  %
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 0  %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 0  %
Middle East: 0  %
North America: 96  %
Oceana: 0  %
Western Europe: 0  %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Northeast: 9  %
Mid-Atlantic: 1  %
South: 1  %
Southwest: 2  %
Midwest: 2  %
West: 85  %
Possessions and territories: 0  %
Canada: 0  %

Companies that recruited MBAs for internships on campus in 2008-09:
120

Companies that posted internships for MBAs on school job boards in 2008-09:
450

Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

Mattel   6
General Electric   5
Johnson & Johnson   5
Amgen   5
Disney   4
IBM   4
Princess Cruise   4
Cisco   3
NBC   3
Nestle   3
Taco Bell   3
Educational Pioneers   3
Sony   2
Warner Brothers   2
Nike   2

Internships awarded that are paid:
91  %

Weekly internship compensation:

        Mean: $ 1,445
        Median: $ 1,500

Average internship length in weeks:
10

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SCHOOL COMMENTS
School Comments:
N/A

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Unless you want to stay in the L.A. area and do marketing or entertainment, Marshall does not provide much support in terms of career services or coursework. -- Venture Capital/Private Equity

Not only did the academic faculty provide an outstanding business education, the program office provide a seamless operation, and the career resource center provide 100% dedication, but the students of Marshall provided invaluable insight as to what type of character, mentality, and passion it will take to succeed in both the current and future global economy. -- Consulting

Most of the recruiters that come to USC are based in southern California. I would only recommend someone enroll in USC if he or she wants to stay in that area; it's very difficult to have contact with companies based elsewhere. -- Venture Capital/Private Equity

Marshall seems adept at accepting candidates that, for the most part, fit neatly within the USC persona and are easy for both alumnae and current students to get along with. -- Marketing

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I went to West Point for my undergraduate and served six years in the Army. With zero prior business experience, I was able to secure multiple job offers in consulting, finance, and operations. A large part of my success was because of Marshall. -- Consulting

I think the real value of the Marshall MBA program lies in the so-called "Trojan network," and for anyone who wants to remain in the Southern California area, Marshall would be a good choice. But there are specific job functions, particularly investment banking, where I would be more hesitant to recommend Marshall, as all the large banks are concentrated in New York. -- Finance

Marshall is great for marketing and entrepreneurship, but it�s inferior to other schools in finance and consulting. -- Marketing

Marshall gave me, above all else, a fantastic network and the skills to leverage it. I met a lot of smart, friendly people during the program and got access to one of the strongest alumni networks on the planet. -- Entrepreneurship

I thought business school was about developing the next generation's entrepreneurs and business innovators, but Marshall seemed more focused on creating mindless middle managers. And the tests are not blind-graded, so whether or not the professor likes you is extremely important. -- Finance