School of Business graduates toss a beach ball around during commencement exercises at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn., Sunday, May 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
(Bloomberg) – This year’s business school graduates are looking for work right on time: More companies want to hire them than at any point in the past decade, a new report shows.
Corporations around the world say they will hire considerably more MBAs in 2015 than they have in any single year since 2003, according to projections by the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers the GMAT. In its annual survey of corporate recruiters, GMAC found that 84 percent of companies globally say they will hire people with master’s of business degrees, up from 74 percent that brought on new MBAs last year. The jump is the largest year-over-year rise in projected MBA hiring since 2011.
MBA hiring will ramp up the most in the U.S., where 90 percent of employers said they would be filling desks with new B-school grads, up from 82 percent last year. Meanwhile, in recession-emergent Europe, companies’ intention to hire edged upward but stayed lower than other regions. Just 56 percent of employers in Europe said they wanted to hire MBAs, vs. 75 percent in Asia and Latin America.
The demand for MBAs was highest in the energy and utilities sector, where 96 percent of companies said that they wanted to hire recent grads and that most of the new hires would work in jobs related to finance or general management. Technology was the second-neediest industry: 93 percent of tech companies plan to make room for B-school alums, mostly to work in marketing.
