EFC – MBAs with ambitions to work in the financial sector still have more opportunities available to them in investment banking than elsewhere. However, it’s private equity and hedge funds where the biggest packages are dangled in front of business school graduates, while asset managers recruiting MBAs offer much greater job security.
Our research into the best MBAs for breaking into investment banking showed a dominance of the large U.S. business schools. This is not surprising – while banks in EMEA and Asia have focused more on recruiting at a graduate level and training in-house, banks in the U.S. have maintained their traditional focus on hiring from Ivy League business schools.
