Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School will graduate its first class of full-time MBAs at the end of this school year. So when it came to lining up potential employers for the soon-to-grads, the school took no chances — it leveraged the university’s prestigious medical reputation to stack Carey’s corporate advisory board with representatives from companies like Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Quest Diagnostics, and GE Healthcare.
Many companies represented on the board offered Carey students summer internships and are considering candidates for full-time spots this fall, the school reports. “(The Hopkins) name was enough to get us conversations and meetings with employers until our business school is wider known,” says Patrick Madsen, Carey’s director of programs, education and career services.
So far, Carey’s full-time program, which launched in August 2010, has attracted students bent more towards science than finance. Twenty-five percent of the inaugural class completed summer internships in the health care industry and 16 percent in tech. Finance internships tied with non-profit work for third place, each taking 13 percent of the class. To help put that in context, at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, for example, 31 percent of its graduating class took full-time jobs in the financial services industry, 29 percent went to consulting and 18 percent went to tech, according to the most recent stats the school provided to Bloomberg Businessweek.
A leap to becoming a tech feeder school doesn’t seem far off, either, as Carey sent interns this summer to Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon. School officials also recently made a recruitment pitch to Constellation Energy, and a budding relationship with GE Healthcare is a bridge to other areas of GE, Madsen says.
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