The administration is fully committed to each student's experience and success. These are the people, often behind the scenes, that make everything work run smoothly. Like the faculty, their excitement and love for what they do is clearly evident and contagious. -- Marketing
Finally, the student body has literally opened my world. Throughout my two years in the program, I have gained hundreds of new perspectives, which have already influenced the way I lead and think. -- Marketing
The Investment Banking program isn't renowned; however, it's quite good. As a top 10 finance school, we have the quality of education, but we don't have the recognition that comes with it. -- Investment Banking
The location can be seen as a good or bad thing. I enjoyed Bloomington because it was a change of pace and a great college town. All the MBAs went out together and the classes were small, so I knew the class ahead of me, my class, and the class below me. -- Investment Banking
If you don't like the life in small town, Kelley is not your school. Sometimes my friends and I really got mad, or at least tired of this boring small town life. Geographic isolation is bad for recruiting also. -- Marketing
It is so important in this growing global economy to be able to work on teams and cross functionally, and Kelley is great at creating an environment to learn in both. -- Marketing
The Kelly staff takes a personal interest in helping you improve and become most effective. Anybody who is even a little unsure about what they want to get out of the MBA program should come to Kelley. The staff and faculty will help you realize your opportunities. -- Investment Banking
The cultural diversity and the atmosphere of togetherness was fantastic. And with the help of Graduate Career Services, I was able to get a number of fantastic job opportunities. -- Marketing
Kelley school has transformed me from a scientist to a businessperson. I am confident that I can handle any situation I encounter in my future career. -- Consulting
I spent a lot of time with my professors outside the classroom. They would meet students at sporting events, tailgates, bars, house parties, and a host of other social events. After attending Kelley, I have no doubt that we have some of the best professors in the country. -- Investment Banking
Kelley provided me with both the tools and the motivation to go beyond a traditional job search, inspiring me to found my own company. -- Entrepreneurship
Unlike some other top 20 MBA programs, each student at Kelley is required to take the same group of core courses during the first semester of the program. While this reduces the amount of elective courses that one can take, it does a nice job of balancing required and elective course offerings. -- Finance
While Kelley has been working hard to improve recruitment visits in specialized fields like investment banking, and increase recruitment from firms on the coasts, there may be other programs that can better prepare students to fulfill those specialized career goals. -- Finance
I had an amazing experience at Kelley. I was able to learn, grow, and exceed my expectations as a result of the challenging curriculum and approachable professors. -- Finance
Kelley has a family-type atmosphere. It's very supportive, but at the same time, very challenging. I was able to depend on my classmates, school staff and faculty to help me when needed, but they all pushed me to be the best I could be all the time. -- Marketing
The current programming is incredible, and there are initiatives to make it even better, so I know that future students are going to be even more impressed than myself. The faculty is very approachable and goes out of their way to help students, even if they aren't registered for their class. -- Consulting
The classes are small, and I knew all my professors by first name (and vice versa). I loved the intimate experience. -- Investment Banking
Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:
Africa: 0 %
Asia: 8 %
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 0 %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 0 %
Middle East: 0 %
North America: 92 %
Oceana: 0 %
Western Europe: 0 %
Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:
Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:
Cummins 6
Deloitte Consulting 5
Eli Lilly 5
Procter & Gamble 5
Target 5
Cook, Inc. 4 Infosys 4
Intel 4
Kraft 4
Mead Johnson 4
Ernst & Young 3
Johnson & Johnson 3
Nationwide 3
Sears Holding Corp. 3
Whirlpool 3
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:
69 %
Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:
Mean base salary: $ 90,993
Median base salary: $ 92,000
Mean signing bonus: $ 18,959
Median signing bonus: $ 17,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation: $ 12,297
Median other guaranteed compensation: $ 11,250
Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:
Consulting: 15 %
Finance/Accounting: 26 %
General Management: 8 %
Human Resources: 0 %
Marketing/Sales: 42 %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 0 %
Operations/Logistics: 5 %
Other: 3 %
CAREER SERVICES
Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 89 %
Graduates not seeking employment: 10 %
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 1 %
Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination: New York City
Month: January
Amount Paid By School: none
Destination: Chicago
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: none
Destination: San Francisco
Month: January
Amount Paid By School: none
Primary source of job offer:
School-facilitated activities: 68 %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 32 %
No information provided by graduate: 0 %
Job Offers for 2009 graduates:
Received first job offer by graduation: 66 %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 6 %
Did not report having received a job offer: 28 %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 62 %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 6 %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 30 %
