The Yale School of Management has released its MBA Class of 2025 employment report.
Of the 336 graduating MBAs, 81.5 percent sought employment. Eighteen were company sponsored (5.4 percent) and 22 (6.5 percent) chose to start their own business. By three months post-graduation, 82.1 percent of those seeking full-time employment had received a job offer, and 79.9 percent had accepted.
“Despite all the news of economic volatility and disruption from AI, employers continue to seek out MBA talent. Yale MBA students have leveraged this demand to find meaningful opportunities across diverse industries that match their professional goals and aspirations,” Abigail Kies, Assistant Dean of Career Development, writes in the school’s announcement.
The median salary for the class increased significantly from last year’s $160,000 to $175,000, with the median signing bonus remaining steady at $30,000. This year included reporting of a guaranteed end-of-year bonus, with a median of $40,000.
Kies also comments on the hiring landscape, noting, “While MBA hiring continued to be robust this year, competition was fierce and the effort required of students was considerable. As a result, more organizations hired as needed as opposed to following traditional on-campus recruiting schedules, as often happened in previous years.”
Industry Placement
The Yale SOM MBA Class of 2025 accepted employment across 121 unique employers, which included companies as varied as Accenture, Door Dash, Nike, Chevron, and CIGNA.
Consulting took the top spot again by industry, recruiting a hefty 36.7 percent of the class and sporting a median base salary of $190,000. Financial services jobs, which include investment banking, diversified financial services, investment management and PE/VC, attracted 28.9 percent of graduates with a $175,000 median base salary–an increase of $4,000 over 2024.
Just over eight percent found tech industry jobs, where the median salary was reported at $138,200. Healthcare/pharmaceutical jobs and retail rounded out the top five industries for the class, at 5 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively.
| Consulting | 36.9% | $190,000 |
| Finance | 28.9% | $175,000 |
| Technology | 8.3% | $138,200 |
| Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals | 5.0% | $140,000 |
| Retail | 4.6% | $143,900 |
“While a look at the top-line numbers shows that Consulting and Finance continue to draw the majority of Yale SOM graduates,” Kies writes, “followed closely by Technology and Retail, students continued to benefit from Yale SOM’s broad network of employers and our deliberate strategy to not become over-reliant on a few organizations to find roles in a broad array of organizations within each industry and sector. Across all industries, many Yale SOM students describe the positions they accepted as having a social impact element.”
Regional Placement
Over 92 percent of MBAs found work in the United States. More than half of the class, 53.3 percent, stayed in the Northeast U.S. in 2025. The next most popular U.S. destination, the West, became home to 16.1 percent of the Yale class. This group reported a median salary of $158,000. The highest median salary reported was from the Southwest at $190,000, similar to 2024’s outcome. The U.S. South, which had a median salary of just $117,500 last year, increased drastically this year to $167,500. Whereas last year, the Mid-Atlantic region became home to over 11 percent of graduates, less than half (4.8 percent) moved there for employment this year.
| Northeast | 53.3% | $175,000 |
| West | 16.1% | $158,000 |
| Midwest | 6.2% | $155,000 |
| Southwest | 6.2% | $190,000 |
| South | 5.7% | $167,500 |
| Mid-Atlantic | 4.8% | $175,000 |
Out of the nearly nine percent who found work overseas, nearly five percent landed in Asia, where the median base salary was reported as $90,000. The next most popular international destination was Latin America/the Caribbean, at one percent. Canada, Europe, MENA and Australia each saw under one percent of graduates.
